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Imported quote 18275 We have to understand Krsna in truth. Otherwise we will be bewildered. And for that reason you have to hear from Krsna or His representative to understand Krsna. Otherwise you will also be bewildered. So if we can understand Krsna, that these activities of Krsna, divyam, janma karma ca me divyam [Bg 4.9], divine; they are not ordinary activities. If we can understand this, immediately we become liberated-simply if we can understand the activities of this Krsna's dancing with the gopis, they are divyam, they are not ordinary. Just like here also a young man wants to dance with many young girls; it is not like that. And because people cannot understand Krsna, and if they hear about the dancing of Krsna with the gopis, they take it the concession, "Now let us dance with young girls." That's all. And they are going to hell. Therefore you have to learn from the proper person about Krsna's activities. If you learn Krsna from the professional uneducated person, nondevotee, then you will go to hell. Therefore immediately we should not try to understand Krsna's dealing with the gopis. It is very confidential. It is kept in the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. That means you have to understand Krsna as He is by reading first nine cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Then you will be able to understand janma karma ca divyam. The Krsna's activities, they are not ordinary thing. They are divine. And if we actually understand, then immediately you become liberated. Janma karma ca divyam yo janati tattvataḥ.
(More...) Imported quote 19325 So when Krsna wants to enjoy... The enjoy means these loving affairs between man and woman. That is a fact. That is not an artificial thing. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has explained Vedanta-sūtra, janmady asya yataḥ. He has said, adi rasasya janma yatra. Adi-rasa. There are twelve kinds of rasas, mellow. Of all of them, the adi-rasa... Adi-rasa means the loving affair between man and woman. This is called adi-rasa. So Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains, janmady asya means the adi-rasa, loving affairs between man and woman, that is from the Supreme Person. That's a fact. Unless the loving propensity is there in the Supreme, how it can be reflected? Because this is perverted reflection only, so there must be the origin.
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