Vraja- Wonderland of Play

Vraja is the divine realm wherein Sri Krishna loves, plays and sports with all and everyone. If you simply visit Vraja or live in Vraja, Gopal will enchant your heart by His sweet love, beauty, charm and naughty playfulness.

Filled with thousands of temples, Vrindavan is known as a "temple town". In fact, the entire 168 sq. mile area of Vraja Mandal is adorned with thousands of temples, sacred places, mountains, rivers, lakes and bathing tanks. In every square mile of Vraja Mandal, one can see at least two villages named after a divine Lila that Sri Krishna enacted there 5,000 years ago!

Bhakti-ratnakara, a SOO-year-old holy book penned by Gaudiya Vaishnav Acharya Sri Narahari Chakravarti, describes over 300 different inhabited villages still existing today in Vraja Mandal. Each village is named after and commemorated to a particular pastime that Sri Krishna enacted there eons ago, and is still doing right now today.

How so? Everything about Bhagavan Sri Krishna is eternal and ever-manifesting, including His transcendental names, forms, qualities, holy abodes and His ecstatic pastimes.

"Wonderland of Play" will highlight a selection of the most exciting and blissful pastimes from this Gaudiya classic.

These amazing pastimes come from a variety of sources i.e. shastra, Puranas, sadhu-vani, old Vrajavasis, local brahmins, and village folklore.

Sri Rupa Goswamipada says that the personality illuminations in his book "Radha- Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika" come from oral tradition (sastra-Iokayoh), local Vrajavasis (mathura-mandale-loke], books written by devotees (granthesu-vividhesu), great devotees and saints (tad-bhaktesu-ca-sadhusu] (RKGD verses 3-5).

In addition, these pastimes should be accepted as authentic and true because they do not contradict the truths of scripture (apasiddhanta) or of rasa-tattva (rasabhasa).

We hope this small book of Vraja madhurya lilas will attract and attach the reader to this most astonishing, wonderland of pure loving bliss and never-ending play, Sridham Vrindavan. The many different pastime villages of Sri Krishna are grouped by areas like Kamavan, Varshana, etc. The villages will be listed by their modern names. Sri Vraja Dham ki jail!

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