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    Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami

    From the book “Sri Vraja-maṇḍala-parikramā”:

    Mahārānī Yamunā has the same darkish blue complexion as Kṛṣṇa. She assists in the playful amorous pastimes of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Yugala in every respect, and flows on three sides of Vṛndāvana. To fully support the rasa-vilāsa of Priyā-Priyatama, she creates countless charming nikuñjas on both her banks with various kinds of dense trees and creepers laden with flowers and fruits.

    She is ornamented and beautified with divine ghāṭas bedecked with jewels, and with various bowers made from kadamba, tamāla, āmra, bakula and other types of trees. The Divine Couple Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa perform water pastimes and boating pastimes with the sakhīs in the waters of Śrī Yamunā. This water is saturated with prema and is always decorated with seven-petalled lotuses. This Bhagavatī Yamunā, who serves the Youthful Couple eternally, is supremely worshipful.

    In Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka (5.35) Śrīla Kavi-karṇapura glorifies Śrī Yamunā-devī as follows (also quoted in Śrī Caitanya- caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 3.28):

    cid-ānanda-bhānoḥ sadā nanda-sūnoḥ
    para-prema-pātrī drava-brahma-gātrī
    aghānāṁ lavitrī jagat-kṣema-dhātrī
    pavitrī-kriyān no vapur-mitra-putrī
    “I repeatedly offer prayers to Śrī Yamunā, the daughter of the Sungod, who is the bestower of unnata-ujjvala prema for Nanda-nandana Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental sun. She embodies transcendental bliss and directly personifies the melted form of Parabrahma. Simply remembering her destroys all types of wickedness and great sins, thus rendering the heart pure. She bestows all auspiciousness upon the world, and can even infuse vraja-rasa into dry, desert-like hearts. May she purify us.”
    gaṅgādi-tīrtha-pariṣevita-pāda-padmāṁ
    goloka-saukhya-rasa-pūramahiṁ mahimnā
    āplāvitākhila-sudhāsu-jalāṁ sukhābdhau
    rādhā-mukunda-muditāṁ yamunāṁ namāmi
    “I offer obeisances time and again unto the beloved of Kṛṣṇa, Śrī Yamunā, whose lotus feet are always served by Gaṅgā, Godāvarī, Narmadā, Sindhu and other tīrthas. Śrī Yamunā is glorious as it is she who bestows service that is saturated with rasa to Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Yugala in Goloka-Vṛndāvana. In her nectar-filled waters, Śrī Rādhā-Mukunda remain immersed in an ocean of happiness.”

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