10 Oct 2025 morning – The Moods of the Vraja Forest (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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The creepers (latas) are dancing.
As they approach Govinda, the trees wave Him like fans (camaras) and offer Him fragrant flowers.
The trees think, “Perhaps Krsna is hungry, after all, He has walked so much,” so they offer extremely fragrant, ripe, and sweet fruits to Sri Krsna.
These are the moods of the trees of Vraja, for the gopis have transferred their moods to them.
The trees tightly embrace Govinda as if He were a friend, and tears (sap) automatically flow upon having His darsan.
When feeling a sense of separation, these trees try to pluck Krsna’s clothes with their thorns and beg Sri Krsna to write their names in His book of remembrance.
There is an etiquette for speaking without hurting people: using only the positive sense in speech.
Three things are very precious: the earth, the grains, and language.
Communication should be attractive, choosing the best words, for positive speech is not offensive.
Every part of the plant and every being in the forest is a member of a large family, one-pointed in service to Sri Hari.
If the family does not have Krsna at the center, just as when we draw with a compass, there will be entanglement, so we must be in Krsna-samsara.
Sukadeva has a darsan (vision) of the Vraja forest and is telling Parakisit Maharaja about it.
Govinda’s lotus feet are called tirtha-pada (where all sacred places manifest).
