LORD KRSNA
Lord Brahma prays, “I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept at playing on His flute, whose eyes are like the petals of a blooming lotus, whose head is bedecked with peacock feathers, whose beauty is tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and whose unique loveliness charms millions of Cupids. ”
Lord Siva prays, “The Lord’s beauty resembles a dark cloud during the rainy season. As the rainfall glistens, His bodily features also glisten. Indeed, He is the sum total of all beauty. The Lord is superexcellently beautiful on account of His open and merciful smile and His sidelong glances upon His devotees. His black hair is curly, and His garments, waving in the wind, appear like flying saffron pollen from lotus flowers. The Lord has shoulders just like a lion’s, upon which rest garlands, as well as necklaces that are always glittering. On the dark chest of the Lord are streaks named Srivatsa, which are signs of the goddess of fortune. The glittering of these streaks excels the beauty of the golden streaks on a gold-testing stone. Indeed, such beauty defeats a gold-testing stone.
“My dear Lord, Your two feet are so beautiful that they appear like two petals of a lotus blossoming during the autumn season. Indeed, the nails of Your lotus feet emanate such a great effulgence that it immediately dissipates all the darkness in the heart of a conditioned soul. My dear Lord, kindly show me that form of Yours which always dissipates all kinds of darkness in the heart of a devotee. You are the supreme spiritual master of everyone, my Lord, and therefore all conditioned souls covered with the darkness of ignorance can be enlightened by You as the spiritual master.”
Srila Prabhupada comments, “The beauty of the lotus feet of the Lord is compared to the petals of a lotus flower that grows in the autumn season. By nature’s law, in autumn the dirty or muddy waters of rivers and lakes become very clean. At that time the lotus flowers growing in the lakes appear very bright and beautiful. The lotus flower itself is compared to the lotus feet of the Lord, and the petals are compared to the nails of the feet of the Lord. The nails of the feet of the Lord are very bright, as Brahma-samhita testifies. Every limb of the transcendental body of the Lord is ananda -cinmaya-sad-ujjvala. Thus every limb is eternally bright. As sunshine dissipates the darkness of this material world, so the effulgence emanating from the body of the Lord immediately dries up the darkness in the heart of the conditioned soul. In other words, everyone serious about understanding the transcendental science and seeing the transcendental form of the Lord must first of all attempt to see the lotus feet of the Lord by studying the First and Second Cantos of Srimad – Bhagavatam. When one sees the lotus feet of the Lord, all kinds of doubts and fears within the heart are vanquished.”