Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta

Author: Viśvanātha Cakravartī

"The Nectar of Meditating on Kṛṣṇa" — the great poem of Viśvanātha Cakravartī in twenty sargas. Like Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja's Govinda-līlāmṛta, it leads the reader through one day of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa in Vraja — from waking in a forest bower to the night's rāsa — through the eight parts of the day, as a support for remembering them. Morning in the houses of Yaśodā and Jaṭilā, the meal, going out with the cows, the meeting in the forest, swings in the rains, honey-wine, water play, midday at Rādhā-kuṇḍa, the evening return, the rāsa and the night.