Madhya 9.137
TEXT 137
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TEXT
অন্য দেহে না পাইয়ে রাসবিলাস ।
অতএব 'নায়ং' শ্লোক কহে বেদব্যাস ॥ ১৩৭ ॥ anya dehe na paiye rasa-vilasa
ataeva 'nayam' sloka kahe veda-vyasa
SYNONYMS
anya dehe-in a body other than those of the gopis; na-not; paiye-one gets; rasa-vilasa-the pastimes of the rasa dance; ataeva-therefore; nayam-beginning with the word nayam; sloka-the Sanskrit verse; kahe-says; veda-vyasa-Dvaipayana Vedavyasa.
TRANSLATION
"Vyasadeva, the supreme authority on Vedic literature, composed a verse beginning 'nayam sukhapo bhagavan' because no one can enter into the rasa-lila dance in any body other than the bodies of the gopis."
PURPORT
This verse confirms a verse of Bhagavad-gita (9.25):
yanti deva-vrata devan
pitṝn yanti pitr-vrataḥ bhūtani yanti bhūtejya yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam "Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who worship ancestors go the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with Me."
Only when one regains his original spiritual body can one enter into the spiritual kingdom. As far as the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord are concerned, it is futile to attempt to imitate the Lord's dances within the material world. One has to attain a spiritual body like the gopis to enter into the pastimes of rasa-lila. In the nayam sukhapo verse, the devotees are referred to as bhaktimat, that is, they are fully engaged in devotional service and are devoid of material contamination. Simply by artificially imitating Krsna's rasa-lila dance or artificially thinking oneself Krsna and dressing oneself up like a sakhi, one cannot enter into His rasa-lila dance. Krsna's rasa-lila dance is completely spiritual. It has nothing to do with material contamination; therefore no one can enter into the pastimes by artificial material means. That is the instruction of this verse.
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