Śrī Kṛṣṇa – The all Attractive
“The name “Kṛṣṇa” means “the all-attractive”. God must be all-attractive. It is not that God is attractive for one person, and not for the other. No. God is all-attractive for all living entities. Therefore you see the picture of Kṛṣṇa, He is loving the calves and cows, He is loving the trees, He is loving the gopīs, He is loving the cowherds boy. For Him, for God, everyone is lovable object because everyone is son of God.”
“O my Lord, the transcendental body of Krishna is very sweet, and His face is even sweeter than His body. The soft smile on His face, which is like the fragrance of honey, is sweeter still.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya, 21.136)
“Krishna’s body is a city of attractive features, and it is sweeter than sweet. His face, which is like the moon, is sweeter still. And the supremely sweet gentle smile on that moonlike face is like rays of moonshine.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya, 21.138)
“The body of Krishna, the ocean of the eternal beauty of youth, can be seen to move in waves of beauty. There is a whirlwind at the sound of His flute, and those waves and that whirlwind make the hearts of the gopīs flutter like dry leaves on trees, and when those leaves fall down at Krishna’s lotus feet, they can never rise up again. There is no beauty to compare with Krishna’s, for no one possesses beauty greater than or equal to His. Since He is the origin of all incarnations, including the form of Nārāyaṇa, the goddess of fortune, who is a constant companion of Nārāyaṇa, gives up Nārāyaṇa’s association and engages herself in penance in order to gain the association of Krishna. Such is the greatness of the superexcellent beauty of Krishna, the everlasting mine of all beauty. It is from that beauty that all beautiful things emanate.” (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)
“My dear friends, Krishna is so beautiful that the goddess of fortune always remains on His chest, and He is always adorned with a golden necklace. Beautiful Krishna plays His flute in order to enliven the hearts of many devotees. He is the only friend of the suffering living entities. When He plays His flute, all the cows and other animals of Vṛndāvana, although engaged in eating, simply take a morsel of food in their mouths and stop chewing. Their ears raise up and they become stunned. They do not appear alive but like painted animals. Krishna’s flute playing is so attractive that even the animals become enchanted, and what to speak of ourselves.” (Krishna Book, Chapter 35)
SB 1.10.13
sarve te ‘nimiṣair akṣais
tam anu druta-cetasaḥ
vīkṣantaḥ sneha-sambaddhā
vicelus tatra tatra ha
SYNONYMS
sarve—all; te—they; animiṣaiḥ—without twinkling of the eyes; akṣaiḥ—by the eye; tam anu—after Him; druta-cetasaḥ—melted heart; vīkṣantaḥ—looking upon Him; sneha-sambaddhāḥ—bound by pure affection; viceluḥ—began to move; tatra tatra—here and there; ha—so they did.
TRANSLATION
All their hearts were melting for Him in the fire of attraction. They looked at Him without blinking their eyes, and they moved hither and thither in perplexity.
“The gopīs used to relish the beauty of Krishna as a ceremony of perpetual enjoyment. They enjoyed the beautiful face of Krishna, His beautiful ears with earrings, His broad forehead and His smile, and when enjoying this sight of Krishna’s beauty, they used to criticize the creator Brahmā for causing their vision of Krishna to be momentarily impeded by the blinking of their eyelids.” (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)
“My dear friend, if you still have any desire to enjoy the company of your friends within this material world, then don’t look upon the form of Krishna, who is standing on the bank of Keshi-ghata. He is known as Govinda, and His eyes are very enchanting. He is playing upon His flute, and on His head there is a peacock feather. His whole body is illuminated by the moonlight in the sky.”
“When the transcendental sound of Krishna’s flute is heard, the devotee’s anxiety to continue to hear that flute enables him to penetrate the covering of the material world and enter into the spiritual sky, where the transcendental sound of the flute enters the ears of the followers of the gopīs. The sound of Krishna’s flute always resides within the ears of the gopīs and increases their ecstacy. When it is heard, no other sound can enter their ears, and amongst their family they are not able to reply to questions properly, for all these beautiful sounds are vibrating in their ears.” (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)
“The gopīs’ minds are always engaged in relishing the sweetness of Krishna’s body. He is the ocean of beauty, and His beautiful face and smile and the luster of His body are all-attractive to the minds of the gopīs. In Krishna-karnamrita, His face, smile and bodily luster have been described as sweet, sweeter and sweetest. A perfect devotee of Krishna is overwhelmed by seeing the beauty of Krishna’s bodily luster, His face and smile, and he bathes in the ocean of transcendental convulsions. Before Krishna’s beauty, these convulsions often continue without treatment, just as ordinary convulsions which a physician will allow to continue, not even allowing a drink of water for relief.” (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)
There are innumerable number of people who had issues with Śrī Kṛṣṇas beauty!
The Parrot (Śuka) had issue with his red lip that made him think it as ‘bimba fruit’ and he tried to eat it.
The Gopīs had issue with his sweet smile that made them madly fall in love.
The white pearls had issue with his teeth, because they were ashamed by looking it’s beauty.
The people of Braj had issue with his act of stealing, not butter but their HEART.
Kāma-deva (the God of love) and other devatās had issue with his beauty, because it surpassed all of their beauty.
The Rainbow had issue with his ‘Vaijyanti Mālā’, because after looking the garland, people would never want to see the beauty of rainbow.
The Gopīs had issues with his flute, because it made them break all society rules and values and run towards him at midnight.
“Krishna is known as Madana-mohana because He conquers the mind of Cupid. He is also known as Madana-mohana due to His accepting the devotional service of the damsels of Vraja and rendering favors unto them. After conquering Cupid’s pride, the Lord engages in the rasa dance as the new Cupid. He is also known as Madana-mohana because of His ability to conquer the minds of women with His five arrows called form, taste, smell, sound and touch. The pearls of the necklace which hangs about the neck of Krishna are as white as ducks, and the peacock feather which decorates His head is colored like a rainbow. His yellow garment is like lightning in the sky, and Krishna Himself is like the newly arrived clouds. The gopīs are like footbells on His feet, and when the cloud pours rain on the grains in the field, it appears that Krishna is nourishing the hearts of the gopīs by calling down His pastime rain of mercy. Indeed, ducks fly in the sky during the rainy season, and rainbows can also be seen at that time. Krishna freely moves amongst His friends as a cowherd boy in Vrindavana, and when He plays His flute, all living creatures, mobile and immobile, become overwhelmed with ecstasy. They quiver, and tears flow from their eyes. Of Krishna’s various opulences, His conjugal love is the summit. He is the master of all riches, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation, and out of these, His perfect beauty is His conjugal attraction. The form of Krishna, the conjugal beauty, is eternally existent in Krishna alone, whereas His other opulences are present in His Nārāyaṇa form.” (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 10)
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