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Rajamargay gate krishne dwarkayah kulastriyah
Harmani aruruhur vipra tadikshna mahatsabah.
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Rajamargay—the public roads, Gate—while passing over, Krishne—by Lord Krishna, Dwarkayah—of the city of Dwarka, Kulastriyah—ladies of the respectable family, Harmani—on the palaces, Aruruhur—got up, Vipra—oh the Brahmins, Yadikshana—just to have a look upon Him (Krishna), Mahatsabah—accepted as the great festival.
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When Lord Krishna was passsing over the public roads, all the ladies of respectable families at Dwarka got up on the roof of their respective palaces just to have a look upon the Lord which they considered as the greatest festival.
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To have a look upon the Lord is a great festival undoubtedly as it was contemplated by the metropolitan ladies of Dwarka,-is still followed by the devout ladies of India. Specially during the days of Jhulan and Janmastami ceremonies the ladies of India still throng up in the greatest number at the temple of the Lord where His transcendetal eternal Form is worshipped. The transcendental Form of the Lord installed in a temple is not-diffierent from the Lord personally. Such Form of the Lord is called Archa-Vigraha or Archa incarnation which is expanded by the Lord by His internal potency just to facilitate the devotional service of His innumerable devotees who are in the material world. The material senses cannot perceive the spiritual nature of the Lord and therefore the Lord accepts such Archa Vigraha apparently made of the material elements like earth, wood, stone etc. but actually there is no material contamination. The Lord being Kaivalya (one alone there is nothing like matter in Him.) He is one without a second and therefore the Almighty Lord can appear Himself in any Form without being contaminated by material conception. Therefore, festivities in the temple of the Lord as we have it generally, is the same festival as it was performed during the manifestive days of the Lord of Dwarka about five thousands of years before. The authorised Acharayas who know the science perfectly well therefore install such temples of the Lord under regulative principles just to offer facilities to the common man but persons who are less intelligent without being conversant with the particular science, mistake the great attempt as idol worship and unnecessarily poke their nose in the matter in which they have no access. Therefore, the ladies or the men who observe festivals in the temples of the Lord just to have a look on the transcendental Form, are a thousand times more glorious than those who are unbelievers in the transcendental Form of the Lord.
#$p#It appears from the verse that the inhabitants of Dwarka were all owners of big palaces which indicate the prosperity of the city. The ladies got up on the roof just to have a look not only of the procession but also of the Lord. The ladies did not mix-up with the crowd on the street and thus their specific respectability was perfectly observed without any artificial equality with the men. Gravity of the female respectability is preserved more elegantly by keeping her separate from the man than by mixing with them unrestricted.
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#dl##dd#rāja-mārgaṁ gate kṛṣṇe#/dd#
#dd#dvārakāyāḥ kula-striyaḥ#/dd#
#dd#harmyāṇy āruruhur vipra#/dd#
#dd#tad-īkṣaṇa-mahotsavāḥ#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rāja&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rāja-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=mārgam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#mārgam#/i# — the public roads; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=gate&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#gate#/i# — while passing over; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kṛṣṇe&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kṛṣṇe#/i# — by Lord Kṛṣṇa; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dvārakāyāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dvārakāyāḥ#/i# — of the city of Dvārakā; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kula&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kula-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=striyaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#striyaḥ#/i# — ladies of the respectable families; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=harmyāṇi&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#harmyāṇi#/i# — on the palaces; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=āruruhuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#āruruhuḥ#/i# — got up; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vipra&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vipra#/i# — O #i#brāhmaṇas#/i#; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tat-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=īkṣaṇa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#īkṣaṇa#/i# — just to look upon Him (Kṛṣṇa); #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=mahā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#mahā-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=utsavāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#utsavāḥ#/i# — accepted as the greatest festival.
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When Lord Kṛṣṇa passed over the public roads, all the ladies from the respectable families of Dvārakā went up to the roofs of their palaces just to have a look at the Lord. They considered this to be the greatest festival.
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To have a look at the Lord is a great festive occasion undoubtedly, as it was considered by the metropolitan ladies of Dvārakā. This is still followed by the devout ladies of India. Especially during the days of the Jhulana and Janmāṣṭamī ceremonies, the ladies of India still throng up in the greatest number at the temple of the Lord, where His transcendental eternal form is worshiped. The transcendental form of the Lord installed in a temple is not different from the Lord personally. Such a form of the Lord is called #i#arcā-vigraha#/i#, or #i#arcā#/i# incarnation, and is expanded by the Lord by His internal potency just to facilitate the devotional service of His innumerable devotees who are in the material world. The material senses cannot perceive the spiritual nature of the Lord, and therefore the Lord accepts the #i#arcā-vigraha#/i#, which is apparently made of material elements like earth, wood and stone but actually there is no material contamination. The Lord being #i#kaivalya#/i# (one alone), there is no matter in Him. He is one without a second, and therefore the Almighty Lord can appear in any form without being contaminated by the material conception. Therefore, festivities in the temple of the Lord, as held generally, are like festivals performed during the manifestive days of the Lord of Dvārakā, about five thousand years ago. The authorized #i#ācāryas#/i#, who know the science perfectly, install such temples of the Lord under regulative principles just to offer facilities to the common man, but persons who are less intelligent, without being conversant with the science, mistake this great attempt to be #i#idol worship#/i# and poke their nose into that to which they have no access. Therefore, the ladies or men who observe festivals in the temples of the Lord just to have a look at the transcendental form are a thousand times more glorious than those who are nonbelievers in the transcendental form of the Lord.
#$p#It appears from the verse that the inhabitants of Dvārakā were all owners of big palaces. This indicates the prosperity of the city. The ladies got up on the roofs just to have a look at the procession and the Lord. The ladies did not mix with the crowd on the street, and thus their respectability was perfectly observed. There was no artificial equality with the man. Female respectability is preserved more elegantly by keeping the woman separate from the man. The sexes should not mix unrestrictedly.
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