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Gopī Gītā (गोपीगीता)

Bhāgavata 10.31. Kṛṣṇa has left the rāsa, and the gopīs sing to the one who is gone. They call him the self in all selves, the friend, the water a life gets thirsty for. The song is praise and complaint in the same breath. Absence is the teacher. The Bhāgavata hub names the dance and does not stage it. This page names the song and does not stage the circle.

The chapter is the received numeral of the tenth skandha. The flute chapter, 10.21, is the earlier song, sung while he is still in the woods with the cows. That one is the Veṇu Gītā, and six of its twenty verses are already sat on the music shelf. This song comes later, when the flute has stopped and the singer is missing. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What they ask

• They ask the absent one to return, and in the same verses they name him as what was never absent: the self of every self in the circle.
• Complaint is a form of attention. The song keeps the mind on the one it misses, which is the bhakti this skandha trusts.
• The commentaries argue what kind of love the rāsa is. This page leaves that argument on the hub, and keeps the song's address.
• A reader who wants the sounded flute goes to the six sat verses. A reader who wants the silence after it stays here.

नेपालीमा

गोपीगीता भागवत १०.३१ हो। कृष्ण रासबाट गएका छन्, र गोपीहरू गएका एकलाई गाउँछन्। उनीहरू उनलाई सबै आत्माका आत्मा, साथी, जीवनले तिर्खाउने पानी भन्छन्। गीत एउटै सासमा स्तुति र गुनासो हो। अनुपस्थिति गुरु हो। भागवतको मुख्य पृष्ठले नृत्यको नाम लिन्छ र नृत्य मञ्चन गर्दैन। यो पृष्ठले गीतको नाम लिन्छ र गोला मञ्चन गर्दैन।

अध्याय दशौँ स्कन्धको प्राप्त अङ्क हो। बाँसुरीको अध्याय, १०.२१, अघिल्लो गीत हो, उनी गाईसँग वनमा हुँदा गाइएको। त्यो वेणुगीता हो, र त्यसका बीस मध्ये छ श्लोक संगीतको तहमा पहिले नै राखिएका छन्। यो गीत पछि आउँछ, जब बाँसुरी रोकिएको हुन्छ र गाउने हराएका हुन्छन्। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

The tenth skandha is the long life the other skandhas lead toward. The Kapila Gītā is the mother's teaching, early. The Uddhava Gītā is the friend's teaching, late, after this song and after Mathurā. The Nārada Bhakti Sūtras are the short śāstra of the love these songs narrate.