Goloka Mandala
Highest of all is Sri Radha-kunda at the foot of Giri-Govardhana.
On the bank of the Yamuna river in Sri Vrindaban, where Krishna enjoyed rasa-lila with the Gopis, is the holy place known as Imli-tala, the origin place of Sri Gauranga, Sri Krishna Chaitanya.
On a lower stage, the city of Madhu-puri or Mathura is the place where Sri Krishna avatara makes his appearance. However, the original Person Krishna (svayam-bhagavan) is always residing in Sri Goloka Vrindaban and His avatara in Mathura is a partial form of that original Being, Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
Dvaraka Puri and limitless Vaikuntha worlds extend from Sri Krishna's abode known as Goloka. These Vaikuntha abodes are conceived to be like petals of the Goloka lotus flower, and there are pathways between the petals of these limitless abodes where Rama, Nrsimha and other avatars exist for all of eternity.
Goloka is non-different from Gokula, the land of Krishna which becomes manifest on Earth when the Lord descends to this plane of existence.
Maha-Vishnu is the avatara of Sri Krishna who is overseeing the material cosmos. All the avataras appearing in the material universes emanate from Sri Maha-Vishnu.
Sada-Shiva the great Lord of Mother Nature and the projenitor of all the children of Nature, is eternally situated above the Viraja stream, the flow of meditative thought that transcends material consciousness and the physical universes that come into existence from time to time.
There are many universes, each with it's own Creator. Awakening from the light of brahma-nirvana, endowed with the eight siddhis (divine powers) described the scripture Vedanta-sutra, these Creators are limited beings who are born and die. Each Creator God, a maker of temporal life and all the material worlds and stars, is called Brahma. Brahma worships the Unborn Absolute Being who we know as Vishnu.
When demonic, material forces go out of control within a material world the Creator prays to Vishnu, the preserver and protector of Life. Vishnu, hearing Brahma's prayers, descends from his Vaikuntha abode in his eternal avatara forms: the Lord descends into material existence as Varaha, Nrsimha, Rama, Krishna and other forms.
On the bank of the Yamuna river in Sri Vrindaban, where Krishna enjoyed rasa-lila with the Gopis, is the holy place known as Imli-tala, the origin place of Sri Gauranga, Sri Krishna Chaitanya.
On a lower stage, the city of Madhu-puri or Mathura is the place where Sri Krishna avatara makes his appearance. However, the original Person Krishna (svayam-bhagavan) is always residing in Sri Goloka Vrindaban and His avatara in Mathura is a partial form of that original Being, Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
Dvaraka Puri and limitless Vaikuntha worlds extend from Sri Krishna's abode known as Goloka. These Vaikuntha abodes are conceived to be like petals of the Goloka lotus flower, and there are pathways between the petals of these limitless abodes where Rama, Nrsimha and other avatars exist for all of eternity.
Goloka is non-different from Gokula, the land of Krishna which becomes manifest on Earth when the Lord descends to this plane of existence.
Maha-Vishnu is the avatara of Sri Krishna who is overseeing the material cosmos. All the avataras appearing in the material universes emanate from Sri Maha-Vishnu.
Sada-Shiva the great Lord of Mother Nature and the projenitor of all the children of Nature, is eternally situated above the Viraja stream, the flow of meditative thought that transcends material consciousness and the physical universes that come into existence from time to time.
There are many universes, each with it's own Creator. Awakening from the light of brahma-nirvana, endowed with the eight siddhis (divine powers) described the scripture Vedanta-sutra, these Creators are limited beings who are born and die. Each Creator God, a maker of temporal life and all the material worlds and stars, is called Brahma. Brahma worships the Unborn Absolute Being who we know as Vishnu.
When demonic, material forces go out of control within a material world the Creator prays to Vishnu, the preserver and protector of Life. Vishnu, hearing Brahma's prayers, descends from his Vaikuntha abode in his eternal avatara forms: the Lord descends into material existence as Varaha, Nrsimha, Rama, Krishna and other forms.
Sri Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda
Dev Goswami Maharaj
The Rupanuga Sampradaya has shown that the supreme servitor and the supreme potency of Sri Krishna is Srimati Radharani, and She is our topmost guide and guardian. If we adopt this line of thought then our identity is very nice.
