Variyasi Devi Krsnas grandmother

[Paramananda das]

Below is from Ananta das Pandits commentary to Srila Raghunath das Goswami Vraja Vilasa stave that is part of his book Stavavali .I never met him but he was obviously very learned in Rasa Sastra and lived in Radha Kunda most of his life where he engaged in Raganuga Bhakti..I never went out of my way to see any Babajis , but he is highly respected ,I believe Mahanidhi Swami took shelter of him while he was still alive ..I once met on Radha Kunda Babaji Madrasi Babaji He was very loving and kind and like a grandfather so somehow by Srimati Radharanis mercy I met him his place was almost opposite Srila Raghunath das Goswami Bhajan Kutir ,he asked me to sit on a simple Vrijabasi bed and he was lying down reading one of the books of Srila Rupa Goswami , he was obviously highly educated both materially and spiritually .I believe he was reading from Uddhava Sandesh by Srila Rupa Goswami ,,,he really liked that I was very familliar with the books of the 6 Goswamis and had read many of them...he was not a demoniac person as Radha Kunda Babajis are often portrayed in ISKCON and Gaudiya math , and it is very offensive because most Babajis I ever met at Radha Kunda are very very saintly ,but he is the only one I ever got to know very closely and i talked to him for 3 hours about Raganuga Bhakti as is done by Gaudiya Vaisnavas .The material world is full of envious persons but I feel blessed I got the association of this saintly Babaji https://a108.net/blogs/entry/19429-shri-krishna-das-madrasi-baba%E2...
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Variyasi Devi
Krsnas grandmother
priyasya naptuḥ sukhato’ti garvāt pādau na yasyāḥ patataḥ pṛthivyām namāmi narmārcita-naptṛ-candrāṁ varīyasīṁ kṛṣṇa pitāmahīṁ tām I offer my obeisances unto Variyasi, Sri Krishna’s paternal grandmother, whose feet do not touch the ground out of pride over the happiness caused by her beloved grandson, and who always delights her moon-like grandson with her joking words. Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā: The līlā-śakti paints delightful pictures of the Vraja-companions’ sweet love in the consciousness of Raghunath Das Goswami, who relishes these sweet feelings himself and leaves his adharāmṛta (lip-nectar, or remnants) to the practising devotees of the world. When the practising devotees hear and chant this topic, their personal feelings towards their beloved deity will awaken and the corresponding prema will be infused into their hearts. ei amṛta anukṣaṇa, sādhu mahanta megha-gaṇa, viśvodyāne kore variṣaṇa tā’te phale prema-phala, bhakta khāya nirantara, tāra śeṣe jīye jagajana The great devotee-saints are like clouds that always shower this nectar over the garden of the world, and prema sprouts as a result. The devotees always eat this, and the people of the world subsist on their remnants. (Caitanya Caritāmṛta) In this verse Raghunath Das Goswami introduces us to the great love of the gopi Variyasi for her grandson Sri Krishna. pitāmahī mahī-mānyā kusumbhābhā harit-paṭā; varīyasīti vikhyātā kharvā kṣīrābha-kuntalā Sri Krishna’s paternal grandmother is named Variyasi, and she is greatly respected in the Vraja-maṇḍala. Her complexion resembles the Kusumbha-flower, her dress is green, she is small and her hair is white like milk. Out of pride over the happiness caused by her beloved grandson her feet do not touch the ground, so it is said by the people. This pride is not a transformation of the mundane modes of passion and ignorance, this is a transformation of pure sattva (spirit). This pride arises from love of God. prītiḥ khalu bhakta cittam ullāsayati mamatayā yojayati viśrambhayati, priyatvātiśayenābhimānayati, drāvayati, sva viṣayaṁ pratyabhilāṣātiśayena yojayati prati-kṣaṇam eva sva viṣayaṁ nava navatvenānubhāvayati asamordhva camatkāreṇonmādayati ca. Love delights the hearts of the devotees, links through feelings of mine-ness, bestows confidence and, through great feelings of affection, special pride, it causes one to melt (or soften), it creates a great craving for the Lord and a resultant attachment to him, it causes the lover to experience the Lord as fresh at every moment and intoxicates the lover with unprecedented feelings of astonishment. ( Prīti Sandarbha , 84) In the bhakti shastras (devotional scriptures) these feelings are progressively described as rati, prema, praṇaya, māna, sneha, rāga, anurāga and mahābhāva. Taking this abhimāna or pride to heart, Sri Radharāṇī is saying: “O friend! I am proud of Your pride!” Prema cannot leave this pride for even a moment. premera sadāi abhimāna, prema cāya ṣola ānā prāṇa. “Prema always has pride, prema wants 100% of the heart!” What can a premika be more proud of? That the Lord is his all-in-all! The experienced know how high the price of this loving pride is! Knowing this to be the soul of prema they want to embrace it from all sides. How glorious the prema of Sri Krishna’s grandmother Variyasi is can be known from this verse. She always makes fun and jokes with Sri Krishna and Sri Krishna is also floating in an ocean of topmost bliss when he hears her jokes. Seeing that Sri Krishna is happy with her jokes and humor grandma calls him again and again: “O rey Nāti-cāṅd (moon-like grandson)! Come here!” The acharyas say: “Those who have realized that Krishna is the Supreme Truth cannot understand him in full. Sri Govinda, who is the embodiment of sweetness, can only be fully realized through a sweet loving attitude. One should not think, though, that the knowledge of the Lord’s prowess is thereby somewhat lost. Knowledge of the Lord’s sweetness, which is like the Triveṇī (the confluence of the Gaṅgā, Yamuna and Sarasvatī) is always inseparably mixed with awareness of the Lord’s prowess. When separation is experienced this is exposed and that knowledge saves the life of the separated devotee.” Das Goswami bows down at the feet of Krishna’s paternal grandmother Variyasi, who is most conscious of his sweetness – kṛṣṇa mora nāti’ boli garve buka bharā; kṛṣṇa sukha sampad heri sukhe ātma-hārā pautra garve pā phele nā kabhu dharaṇīte; hāsya parihāse magna govinda sahite kṛṣṇa pitāmahī boli yāra kautuka kathā; ullāsete śune sabe prasaṅga hoy yathā sei varīyasī kṛṣṇa pitāmahī yini; kṛpā-lobhe sadā pade praṇata ye āmi Eager for her mercy I bow down to Krishna’s paternal grandmother Variyasi, whose heart is filled with pride as she says: “Krishna is my grandson!”, whose feet don’t touch the ground out of pride of her grandson, who is always immersed in joking and laughing with Govinda and who gladly speaks of herself as Krishna’s paternal grandmother, something which is glady heard and discussed by all the others. Commentary of Sri Radhakuṇḍa Mahānta Paṇḍita Sri Ananta Dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja is named Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā (a drop of the nectar of Stavāvalī ), and was published in Gaurābda 503 (1989 A.D.) from Sri Krishna Chaitanya Shastra Mandir, Vrajananda Ghera, PO Radhakunda (district Mathura), U.P., India. Devotional songs in Bengali that follow each commentary were composed by Dr. Haripada Śīla.
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Paramananda Das
I was reading what my seem mundane about Maternal and Paternal Grandmothers but I can see the phycology also fits into Krsnas maternal and paternal grandparents https://www.peps.org/.../the-differences-between-paternal...
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So Variyasi devi is the mother of Nanda Maharaja and his brothers like Upananda

Krsnas Grandmother Varyasi has complexion like Kusumbha flowers so I looked it up
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Kusumbha medicinal plant, regional names, family and origin, Kusumbha plant synonyms, parts used, drug details, Kusumbha tree botanical name
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it is Safflover in English
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