Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.33.4
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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puṣpa-vṛṣṭayaḥ
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rains of flowers
Puṣpa (flower) + vṛṣṭi (rain). The same shower that fell at Kṛṣṇa's birth, at the lifting of Govardhana, and at Caitanya's saṅkīrtana — Gauḍīyas read these as one continuous celestial response to bhakti-līlā.
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gandharva-patayaḥ
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the chief Gandharvas
Gandharva = celestial musician. Even the masters of music become listeners here. Gauḍīyas: the rāsa is the original music; what gandharvas know is its echo.
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yaśaḥ-amalam
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His spotless glories
Yaśas (fame, glory) + amala (stainless). The gandharvas sing of the rāsa as spotless even before Parīkṣit will raise his doubt at v.26 — the song precedes and answers the objection.
As stated here, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s glory in dancing the rāsa dance is pure spiritual bliss. The demigods in heaven, in charge of maintaining propriety in the universe, ecstatically accepted the rāsa dance as the ultimate religious affair, completely different from the perverted reflection of romance we find in this mundane world.
From the devatās and others (tataḥ) arose the sound of drums or after that (tataḥ), the drums sounds on their own since they were celestial instruments and because of the nature of the great, auspicious festival. That should be understood when drums are mentioned later also. First the drums sounded for auspiciousness and for gathering the different groups of gopīs. Showers of flowers fell everywhere (ni—petuḥ). Thus flowers were spread all over the dancing arena. The Gandharvas sang with their wives and the Apsarās. They were all dedicated to Kṛṣṇa, whose fame was spotless. Because of this, at this time they all were also spotless--free of all bad desires.
- Where in your judgments are you mistaking the spiritual original for its worldly distortion?
- Can you praise Kṛṣṇa as 'spotless' even in His most intimate pastimes?
When the rāsa begins, the demigods' kettledrums do not announce the event — they confess that the highest event in the universe is not their own. Heaven leans down to Vṛndāvana, not Vṛndāvana up to heaven.
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