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SrI:
 
Dear SrI KrishNa BhathAs  :
 
SlOkam 2.3 is a prayer for the protection of
the Lord , who stole the clothings of the Gopis 
observing KaathyAyani vratham to gain Him as
their husband .This incident of the stealing of
the clothes of unsuspecting Gopis and the Lord
acting as " an eve-teaser" to teach them a lesson
about the bathing in the river without garments is
covered in chapter 22 of the 10th Canto of SrImath
BhAgavatham .
 
Lord KrishNa says to the Gopis perturbed over 
the loss of their clothes :
 
" Oh Virtuous girls ! I have understood that the object 
that you have in mind is to serve Me .It has My approval
and will fructify soon . Sexual passion directed towards
Me with complete absorption in Me will not end in sensual
enjoyment . Just as grain boiled or fried loses its
germinating capacity , association with Me destroys
the sensous nature of passion . ..The object with which
you observed this worship of the goddess will before 
long be fulfilled . You will soon sport with Me on 
moonlit autumnal nights . "
 
Sri KrishNa KarNAmrutha SlOkam 2.3
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Deva: PaayAth payasi vimalE YaamunE majjithAnAm
   yAchantheenA-manunayapadhai: vanchithAnamsukAni
lajjA-lOlai: alasa-vilasai: unmishath-panchaBhANai:
   gOpa-sthreeNAm nayana kusumai: architha: KesavO na:
 
The Prose Order
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YaamunE VimalE payasi majjathAnAm , vanchithAni
amsukAni anunaya padhai: yaachantheenAm gOpas-
threeNAm lajjA-lOlai: , alasa-vilasai: unmishath-pancha BhANai:
nayana kusumai: architha: , Deva: Kesava: na: PaayAth .
 
Meaning and commentary :
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The key passage here is : " GopasthreeNAm nayana
kusumai: architha Deva: Kesava: na: Paathu " ( May 
 Lord Kesavan worshipped by the eyes of the Gopikais
serving as the flowers protect us ).
 
The status of the Gopa Sthrees sporting in the pure waters
of YamunA river ( YaamunE VimalE payasi majjithAnAm ) is
described here . In the dim light of the dawn , our Lord
arrived on the banks of the Yamuna river, where the Gopis
were sporting without detecting His arrival . He collected
all the clothes of the Gopis stealthily and climbed up 
a KadambhA tree with their clothes .As the Sun rose ,
the Gopis coming out of the water recognized that their
clothings are no longer there , where they left them and
saw their Lord had cheated them and was holding their
stolen vasthrams( vanchithAni amsukAni)  .The ashamed
Gopis began to plead gently with the amused mischief maker
to return their clothes and spare them the shame of being
seen without clothes ( anunaya padhai: yaachantheenAm
Gopa sthreeNAm ) . 
 
As the Gopis went ahead with their gentle pleadings 
and prayerful appeals , they were looking at the Lord 
with their bashful smiles and did not come out of
the water to recieve their clothes . Srimath Bhagavatham
describes their state as " prEma paripluthA: vreeDithA:"
( the Gopis immersed in love for their Lord looked 
at each other and displayed bashful smiles ). LeelA
Sukhar elaborates on this passage of Srimath BhAgavatham:
" lajjaa lOlai: , alasa-vilasai: gOpasthreeNAm unmishatha
nayana kusumai: architha: na: Kesava: " .The eyes of
the gopis were filled with shyness and were sending at 
the same time sending out arrows of love in the form 
of the five flowers of ManmathA at Lord Kesava 
holding all their vasthrams , while seated on 
the branch of a KadambhA  tree surveying 
this delectable scene to His heart's content .
 
Leelaa Sukhar prays for the protection of this
blissful Moorthy ( Kesava: na: pAyAth) ;
The prayer is to that Lord  who returned
the clothes of the Gopis and promised
to fulfil their heart's desires as observers of
KaathyAyini vratham to gain Him as
their husband after accepting their
total surrender .
 
GopikA VasthrAbhaharaNa SwaminE Nama:
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan
 
            
    
   
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