Chapter

Rūpa kīrtana — Singing the Glories of the Lord's Form

From Kalyanakalpataru by Bhaktivinoda Thakura.

Rupa-kirtana, glorification of Krishna's form, sits immediately after Rasa-kirtana among the short, single-song sections that close Kalyana-Kalpataru, together forming a matched pair of brief glorifications near the book's end. Its opening declares that a birth becomes truly fruitful for whoever attains a vision, darsana, of Krishna — treating that vision as the very culmination the book's earlier sections of instruction and realization have been building toward across their combined thirty-two songs of correction, confession, and longing.

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