31. Shri Shri Imli Tala Temple




Radhanath Swami has taken several pilgrimages to Imli Tala. On one such pilgrimage, he described that when Shri Radhika disappeared from the midst of the Sharad-purnima rasa dance, Krishna was searching for Her with intense feelings of separation. This mood of separation increased Their anticipation for meeting, and thus very much increased Their intensity of love. Radhanath Swami further explained that, Krishna, in this mood of separation sat down under this Kalpavriksha Tamarind tree at Imli Tala and became so completely absorbed in the thoughts of Shrimati Radharani and chanting Her holy names, that His body assumed the color of Shrimati Radharani. Just at that time, Shrimati Radharani appeared, relieving His separation and subsequently, He again assumed His original form of Shyamasundara. At this very place, Krishna then disclosed to Shri Radhika, “In My intense ecstasies of separation, I assumed Your form, Your complexion and Your ecstatic love. In the age of Kali, I will again appear like this, I will appear with Your complexion and with Your mood of ecstatic love and I will spread that love throughout the world, to all living beings, through the sankirtanmovement – the loud congregational chanting of the holy names: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare.”
According to His word, Lord Shri Krishna appeared in the age of Kali, as Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, just 500 years ago, with the complexion and the mood of ecstatic love of Shrimati Radharani. When Lord Chaitanya visited Vrindavan, He would come to Imli Tala everyday and for hours and hours with his japa-mala, He would deeply absorb Himself in chanting the holy names, sitting under this Imli tree. In the mood of Shrimati Radharani He would become so deeply immersed in the ocean of separation from Shyamasundara that Lord Chaitanya’s golden form would be transformed into the complexion of a dark, newly formed monsoon rain-cloud. This is Imli Tala.


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