Chapter Seven: Literature of the Rasika Tradition
—the rāsa-līlā continued at Chitrakuta. Rama had created this divine Chitrakuta to fulfil Sita’s desire.1
The text then asks why and how Rama created Goloka to fulfil her wish. Shukadeva answers: “At the beginning of the kalpa, moved by his will alone, Ramachandra produced the three worlds from his body. First, through an infallible desire filled with Vaishnava creative potency and splendour, he manifested water and placed the seed within it. That seed became a golden, spherical egg shining like millions of suns. From the egg appeared Hiranyagarbha in the form of Brahma, creator of all worlds. From it the moving and unmoving universe appeared. Establishing consciousness within it, Rama fashioned millions upon millions of cosmic eggs.”2
Footnotes
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The cited verses describe millions of Brahmas and Brahmanis, Vishnus and Vaishnavis, Rudras and Rudranis, all gods, the sixty thousand Dandakaranya sages, the revealed scriptures, and Time entering the gopikā disposition and dancing with their sovereign in the circle of the rāsa. They identify Sita as the goddess who governs every līlā and say that the wondrous Vrindavana at Chitrakuta—Goloka itself—was fashioned by Rama to fulfil her desire. ↩
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Śuka Saṃhitā, chapter 1. The passage continues that Rama fashioned higher and lower beings, the earth encircled by seven oceans, mountains, lakes filled with royal swans, Mount Meru, and the realms of the gods. ↩