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The Eternal Love

‘Raas’ means divine pleasure or dance, and ‘leela’ implies play or magic, in Sanskrit. According to Shrimad Bhagavata Puran, Maha Raas was performed by Krishna, as a six-year-old, for his devotees.

The Rasa lila takes place one night when the Gopis of Vrindavan, upon hearing the sound of Krishna’s flute, sneak away from their households and families to the forest to dance with Krishna throughout the night, which Krishna supernaturally stretches to the length of one kalpa, a Hindu unit of time lasting approximately 4.32 billion years. In the Krishna Bhakti traditions, the rasa-lila is considered to be one of the most beautiful depictions of soulful love… In these traditions, romantic love between human beings in the material world is seen as a reflection of the soul’s original, ecstatic spiritual love of Krishna, God, in the spiritual world.