Krishna’s Lilas in Goloka & Bhuloka Vrindavan – Five doubts!
“Harish Kumar Bhagvani” asked like this:
“Hare Krishna prabhuji, Dandavat Pranaam. Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Shri Guru & Gauranga.
As is said in our scriptures that Vrindavan is the mirror reflection of Goloka and so also the Lila performed by the Lord in Vrindavan. Also there is no concept of time in Goloka. In this context, few more questions came to my mind if you can kindly help me get it clarified:”
(How many Qualities required to go back to Goloka for humans and gods? READ HERE!)
Let us read the replies for the five Questions on Krishna’s Lilas in Goloka & Bhuloka Vrindavan:
(1) So does it mean there are also demons in Goloka which act in the role of enemies to Lord, people like Kamsa who plan his evil mind on the Lord? (may to giving pleasure to Lord in His sporting Lilas)
REPLY:
In Goloka, Only the servants and devotees of Krishna exist.
No person with demonic nature can exist in Goloka.
If even a trace of jealousy arises in the mind of a devotee, he will be sent back to material planets.
Though Vrindavan is the replica of Goloka Vrindavan, the population will be different.
In Goloka, Krishna has no need to save the devotees as only devotees are there. So, they have no threats for them.
Krishna performs lilas as well as eradication of demons in the material planets only because Only the material worlds have demons. So, Krishna need not demonstrate the lila of killing the demons in Goloka.
Krishna performs the lilas of killing the demons only because demons exist only in the material worlds.
Material world is under the control of maya. So, demons exist.
In the Spiritual planets, that are controlled by Radharani, no demon can exist. So, no need for killing the demons in Goloka.
(Is staying in Goloka as family of Parents, Spouse & Child possible? READ HERE!)
(2) Does the Lord depict all sorts of emotions & qualities in Goloka also, which He depicts in Vrindavan during His leelas? Does He also grow from child to youth in Goloka like in Vrindavan leela?
REPLY:
In Goloka, He always remain as a Youth of 16 years old.
However, in Goloka, the devotees have extra priviledges. They can get Krishna in any age between 0 to 16. His appearance does not go beyond that of 16 though He eternally exists iun Goloka.
Even when He came to the earth, He looked like a 16 years old youth even when He left at the age of 125.
So, seeing Old Krishna is impossible.
In Goloka, if a devotee wants to see Krishna as a child, Krishna appears as a child; If another devotee wants to see Him as a young person, Krishna appears so.
Similarly, you can get anything from anything in Goloka.
You can get milk from a cow; You can also get feast from the same cow.
Whatever you ask to anyone or anything, that is made available for you in Goloka.
Krishna performs all the lilas He performs in the Bhuloka Vrindavana, in Goloka also.
Innumerable gopis and gopas are there; Radharani is there; Innumerable Sakhis are there;
Innumerable cows are there; Innumerable palaces are there;
Only difference is that there is no concept of ageing in Goloka and all are always young there with the spiritual bodies.
(How a devotee loses his eligibility to be in Goloka and falls down? READ HERE!)
3) Since Vrindavan is a reflection of Goloka, then the same Vrindavan (as a sacred place or Dhaam) appears in all kalpas of our Universe & other Universes ?
REPLY:
Yes, Bhuloka Vrindavan exists wherever material planets exist.
And, Krishna, Radharani, Gopis, etc are always living in the subtle form (even after they have physically left to the Goloka) in the bhuloka Vrindavan in all the earth like planets.
Wherever Krishna chooses to visit, there will be a Vrindavan.
(How to know whether we have taken many births or just fallen from Goloka? READ HERE!)
4) Does He play the same leela in all universes & during every Kalpa? or He changes His activities in His Leelas? If He changes His activities at different Kalpa/ Universes (which I assume due to my limited knowledge of this concept), I am not able to correlate is it different portions of the Goloka lilas appearing in different times or places/ universes?
REPLY:
Krishna can exhibit innumerable lilas.
He showed only a part of lilas when He came here 5000 years ago.
Similarly, He exhibit so many different lilas to make His devotees blissful.
There is no boundary or formula or a set of pattern for Krishna’s lilas.
What we read in Bhagavatham are only a bit of His lilas.
How can one give a description for the lilas of krishna?
They are unlimited and beyond description.
So, the reply is: Krishna can exhibit different lilas in different places where He appears.
(Can One have Intimate relationship with Krishna in Goloka? READ HERE!)
5) I would deduce that every universe is having a earth like planet & Bharat like Khanda in which Lord performs His Lilas. Am I correct in my deduction?
Awaiting your kind mercy in the form of clarification of concepts of Vrindavan dhaam & lila of the Lord in Vrindavan.
REPLY:
Yes, it is true.
Even the scientists have so far discovered thousands of Stars like the Sun and also thousands of earth like planets around those suns.
So, Krishna will be visiting all those earths and performs different types of lilas.
Goloka Vrindavan can’t have a single reflection. It will reflect in all the earth-like planets.
So, Krishna will be making His lilas in all those earth-like planets.
No limits for the lilas and potency of Krishna.
Hope you are clear about Krishna’s Lilas in Goloka & Bhuloka Vrindavan!
(Can a devotee get Krishna and Radharani as Parents in Goloka also? READ HERE!)