Krishna's flute-- Krishna’s flute is the symbol of freedom or Pranava. He has preached Prema, love, through his flute! He has created a blissful feeling in this world out of the sound of Omkara that emanates from his flute!
Suta and Gayatri....His Murali is also black like Krishna and born of a wild bamboo family, which bewitched Radha's Krishna!! When he plays upon it, the peacock madly dances to its tunes, and other birds stand dumb on the summit of the hills! The entire Nature humbled and becomes spellbound! Along with Radha , all the other Gopikas lose their normal consciousness and hurriedly wear their nose rings in the ears and earrings in the nose to meet him! The cows give up their grazing and the calves their sucking and stand like statues with ears erect to listen that eternal melodies with rapt attention! Ah! How alluring is the melody from Krishna's Murali! It seems it is not a flute, but a magic wand!! That music is like spiritual bliss materialized, flowing like a perennial river with melodious murmurs!!
So far as the flute is concerned Krishna produced lovely melodies on it till He remained in Vrindavan and with Radha, later he kept it with himself as a jewel, like a peacock feather as the symbols of Radha's love.
In Mathura He was engaged with the Kingly affairs and the listeners Gopikas who were spiritually aligned with Him were not with Him, so it was silent!
Though He was always keeping the flute with Him and this is evidenced by all the people at that time. He carried it to Mathura, and kept it with him till the end of His Avtar.
So the melody is present in the space and only those who are blessed can listen to it except the writers of this serial and those Kurila and Jatila!!
There are many interesting interpolations in the main Bhagavata Puran. The story of the Murali is one amongst them. Here is a verse from Sri Brahma Samhita --
veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam-barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock’s feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids. ( BS 5.30)
Krishna’s playing of the flute is indeed very special and much has been written about it in various Vedic scriptures and poems.
Krishna has different flutes and He plays different melodies for different purposes. There are three kinds of flutes used by Krishna .
1) Venu : This is a very small, not more than six inches long, with six holes for whistling.
2) Murali: Murali is about eighteen inches long with a hole at the end and four holes on the body of the flute. This kind of flute produces a very enchanting sound.
3) Vamsi: The vamsi flute is about fifteen inches long, with nine holes on its body.
Krishna would play on any of these three flutes when they were needed. Krishna uses the Venu flute to attract to Gopis, like Venum kvanantam from the Brahma Samhita.
These flutes were sometimes bedecked with jewels. Sometimes they were made of marble and sometimes of hollow bamboo. When the flute is made of jewels it is called Sammohini. When made of gold, it is called Akarsini. It said that Krishna plays different tunes
1) Gods like Lord Brahma and Lord Siva’s meditation is broken and they forget everything in astonishment and Lord Anantadeva sways His head like in hypnosis.
2) The second tune makes the Yamuna flow backwards
3) The third tune makes the moon stop moving!!
4) Fourth tune makes the cows run to Krsna and get stunned listening to the flute
5) The 5th note attracts the gopis and make them come running to him
6) 6th Tune makes the stones melt and creates autumn season
7) 7th note manifests all seasons
8) 8th Note is meant exclusively for Radha, it takes Her name and calls for Her, and She comes running to Him putting Her clothes wrong and mascara also.
Here is an interesting one, Krishna breaking the Murali story--
Because of unbearable separation from Krishna, Radha headed towards Dwaraka on foot. She worked in the palace of dwaraka as a maid just to see her Krishna for one last time. Later as she decided to leave Dwaraka unnoticed, as she started walking, Krishna started following her. Radha had an unusual feeling and turned back with ecstasy. Her eyes were filled with tears and her heart puffed with pure love!
Krishna asked Radha what she wanted. She just nodded her head indicating 'nothing'. Except for his divine love. But Krishna insisted that she asked for something since she had never asked anything so far from him. Radha finally expressed her desire to listen to Krishna's divine flute before she left her mortal coils!
Krishna played the most melodious tune in his flute that was never played earlier and dedicated it to Radha. Listening to the divine melody, Radha divinely merged in Krishna. Krishna decided that it was his final rendering of the flute and once for all dedicated the flute to his most beloved Radha. Having played the tune he specially composed to accompany Radha on her final journey, he broke the flute and threw it into the near by bushes!
My interpretation here is-- That is why, since then the Bamboo groves searching within themselves, each and every stem of a young bamboo is trying to listen to those melodious murmurs stirring within it whenever a breeze hugs its heart with a sonorous rhythm!! Krishna's flute is there in every tender stem of bamboo, that melody is there in every resonant whisper of Nature! But I am sure , it was never touched by Kutila or Jatila or the writers of this serial!!
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