Sri Radha Govinda Gaudiya Matha
– Celebration of the Hariyali Festival, when all the places in Braja are green.
– There are six seasons: summer, rainy season, autumn, pre-winter, winter, and spring.
– Krishna makes sweet lilas that are celebrated in each season.
– Before the rainy season, in summer, when everything is dry, without leaves, there is only dust and hot wind. This period is quite difficult to tolerate, everyone’s mind is disturbed.
– Varsana is the birthplace of Srimati Radhika.
– Everyone’s heart overflows with happiness, as it is the planting season, of corn, barley, etc., everything turns green during ten days of rain, the flowers begin to bloom and the lakes are full.
– The gopis are happy as they participate in the sweet lila that Yogamaya organizes. Between two trees (Tamala and Kadambha) representing Radha and Krishna, they set up the swing; this is the Jhulana Yatra lila.
– The gopis get wet in the rain wearing their beautiful, fine clothes and decorate their hair with white flowers, which they also use to make garlands.
– The Swing Festival in Braja begins in the rainy season. And all the married gopis return to their parents’ homes for four, two, or one month; this is the tradition.
– Gurudeva tells the story of Srimati Radhika anxiously awaiting her brother Sridama. She saw someone collecting dry twigs in Varsana and asked them to deliver a message.
– Srimati Radhika’s lotus footprints are still on the terrace today.
– Gurudeva tells the story of Srimati Radhika’s reunion with her brother Sridama.
– Jatila and Kutila gave Srimati Radhika permission to go with her brother.
– She inquired about Vrisabhanu Maharaja, about Her friends (sakhis), Her mother, She inquired about everyone.
– Gurudeva recounts the meeting between Vrisabhanu Maharaja and Srimati Radhika and the reason for the delay.
– The meeting with the sakhis.
– The Tamal and Kadamba trees and the Swing Festival.
