At Vṛṣabhānu-kuṇḍa: The Dhāma That Expands and the Moon Risen from Vṛṣabhānu’s Ocean
• Vṛṣabhānu-kuṇḍa and Kīrtidā-kuṇḍa: Speaking in Hindi at Vṛṣabhānu-kuṇḍa in Barsana, Gurudeva explains that Vṛṣabhānu Mahārāja bathed here daily and Mother Kīrtidā bathed with her sakhīs in the nearby Kīrtidā-kuṇḍa. Vṛṣabhānu had eleven lakh cows and Nanda Bābā nine lakh, so in the prakaṭa-līlā these kuṇḍas were vast.
• The Dhāma Contracts and Expands: The aprākṛta dhāma contracts and expands by Bhagavān’s desire, so there is no room for the logician’s doubt about how so many cows drank from a small kuṇḍa. The sloping bank built for the cows to drink can still be seen, and the cows understood the Vraja calls used to bring them.
• Rādhā’s Appearance on a White Lotus: After the devotees’ darśana of Rādhājī’s birthplace (with Śrīdāma and Kīrtidā), Gurudeva describes Vṛṣabhānu finding a radiant baby girl, golden like molten gold, smiling on a white lotus in this kuṇḍa. The earth is blessed in the three worlds, because Vṛndāvana is here.
• Dipping in the Pokhar: He playfully asks the devotees how many dips they took, how few people bathe in a pokhar, and who can swim. He describes the clear water shimmering like an indranīla jewel, with water birds, cuckoos and peacocks.
• The Peacock, the Peahen and the Śuka and Śārī: The peahen scolds the peacock: it is Rādhārānī who subdues Kṛṣṇa by prema. Quoting a Bengali śuka-śārī kīrtana, the śārī answers the śuka that Kṛṣṇa could lift Govardhana only because Rādhā infused Him with śakti (śuka bale āmāra kṛṣṇa giri dharechila). He praises a little girl who knows the song by heart.
• The Moon from Vṛṣabhānu’s Ocean: Touching Rādhā, the embodiment of hlādinī and ānanda, Vṛṣabhānu’s heart melted with sāttvika transformations. In vṛṣabhānūdadhi-nava-śaśi-lekhe the word is udadhi, the ocean, not dadhi: Rādhā is the new moon risen from the ocean of his heart, and he gave Her to Kīrtidā Sundarī.
• A Place of Mādhurya Līlā: Sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya līlā are all here, but the others nourish mādhurya, and only the sakhīs have entry into this most confidential līlā (rādhā-kṛṣṇera līlā ei ati gūḍha…). The residents are nitya-parikaras, the kuñjas are described in Govinda-līlāmṛta and Śrī Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta, and the open air, free of big buildings, makes it a place to stay, where Gurudeva spoke hari-kathā on parikramā.
• Pīlī Pokhar, Kaḍhī and “Hāṁ Jī”: Before going to Pīlī Pokhar, where Mahāprabhu’s associates from Bengal came, he speaks of the pungent pīlu fruit, Vraja’s taste for spicy and sweet food with ghee and curd, and Rādhā’s favourite kaḍhī, which Gurudeva would make at Rādhāṣṭamī. In Vraja there is only “hāṁ jī”, never “nā jī”, and, as in the eggplant story, one is the servant of the master alone.
• No Question Marks: The Gītā and the Bhāgavata contain no question marks, only one or two daṇḍas, which he calls a special feature of Vyāsadeva.
Gurudeva closes with the jaya to Vṛndāvana-bihārī Lāl, and the devotees go on toward Pīlī Pokhar