not like the activities of ordinary boy & girl

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So this Krsna, being Para-brahman, so what will be the platform of His loving affairs? This is to be considered. For brahma-sukha, we are... In this material world we see many saintly persons, they give up everything: sannyasa. Sannyasa means giving up everything for the Supreme. So for simply to relish a little bit of brahma-sukha, these saintly persons, great, great saintly persons, they are giving up everything. Tyaktva sva-dharmam. Sva-dharma means the regulated division of the society: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sūdra. So they give up everything, brahma-sukhanubhūtya, to understand..., tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyed sattva [SB 5.5.1], for purifying the existence. Because we are after happiness, every one of us. But we are seeking happiness in the perverted reflection. That is not possible. Therefore one has to give up this perverted happiness and come to the real fact. So our point is that "Because Krsna is Para-brahman, so how He can take pleasure in this material world?" This is the argument. So those who are wrongly thinking, foolishly thinking, that "Krsna enjoyed with the gopis like we enjoy in the company of many girls," they are great fools. They have no knowledge. They are misled, because it appears, perverted reflection, it appears like that. But the reflection is different from the reality. (More...)

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