Sevakunj

Sevakunj / सेवाकुंज

Sevakunj or Nikunjvan

This place is also called Nikunjvan. It lies just near the temple of Shri Radha Damodar, to the south-west in Vrindavan.
A painting of Radhika with Shri Krishna massaging Her feet is worshipped here in a small temple.
The Brajavasis say that even today Shri Radha-Krishna Jugala perform Their pastimes here every night.
Everyone therefore leaves this kunj at dusk. Even the impudent monkeys independently leave this kunja as the evening falls.
From time to time it happens that someone stubbornly tries to remain here during the night, and in the morning is found dead.
Others have by some means escaped death, but have become completely insane. Bhakta Raskhan searched for Krishna all over Braj but without success.
Finally, he had darshan of rasika Shri Krishna at this very place. He has revealed this in his beautiful poetry as follows:^[1]"Standing in the doorway of the kunj, I watch Krishna as He sits massaging Radhika's feet submissively." [The word palota here indicates that Krishna is massaging in the mood, "I will not go to Chandravali's kunj again."]
In Seva-kunj, we also find Lalita Kund. When Lalita was feeling thirsty during rasa, Krishna manifested this beautiful kund by digging it with His flute.
Lalita and the sakhis drank the kund's sweet, cool water and refreshed themselves. There is a keli-kadamba tree nearby whose every knot bulges out and resembles a round shalgram.