Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam [Bs. 5.30]. Don't think that Krsna figure is the imagination of some artist or painter. No, no. These are the description in the Vedas. Venum kvanantam, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, is playing on His flute. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam [Bs. 5.30]. And His eyes are like the petals of lotus flower. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam barhavatamsam. There is a feather of peacock, asitambuda-sundarangam, His complexion is like black cloud but very, very beautiful. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam barhavatamsam asitambuda-sundarangam, kandarpa-koti-kamaniya. He is so beautiful that more attractive than many, many hundreds and thousands of Cupid. Kandarpa-koti-kamaniya-visesa-sobham govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami [Bs. 5.30]. This is the Govinda's description. There are so many descriptions.   (More...)
So this is spiritual varieties. Material varieties cannot give us full satisfaction. Therefore you want change. Change, another change, another change. Punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30]. Here in the material world we are simply chewing the chewed. Once chewed and thrown it away, again somebody is coming chewing. So spiritual variety is not like that. Spiritual varieties is anandambudhi-vardhanam. The more you are attached to spiritual variety, it is just like ocean. An ocean does not increase, but spiritual varieties are said they are increasing. Now just like here you have got the Arabian Sea. It is not increasing. It would have increased, then Bombay town would have been finished long ago. So it is not increasing. It has got a certain limit. You go to the beach you see no, no more than. But it is compared with anandambudhi, the ocean of bliss, increasing, vardhanam. Anandambudhi-vardhanam. The more you enter into the spiritual bliss, the more you become joyful. That is spiritual. Spiritual, just like these boys, these girls they are chanting Hare Krsna. Had it been hackneyed, how long they would have chanted? No. That is not possible. Unless it is spiritual, nobody can be satisfied simply by chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna. You take any other word, "Mr. John, Mr. John, Mr. John," how long you will chant? After chanting for half an hour you will be fed up. But this is anandambudhi-vardhanam. The more you chant the more you become spiritually advanced. This is called anandambudhi-vardhanam. Otherwise how one can be satisfied simply by chanting, chanting Hare Krsna? They are not mad, they are not foolish. They are human being. And how they have given up everything simply by chanting if it is not anandambudhi-vardhanam, if it is not increasing in spiritual blissfulness. Practical. They have forgotten everything, they are also young men. They don't go to cinema. Just one block after there is cinema, they will never go, giving up this chanting and go to the cinema. Don't you see practically?   (More...)
But our philosophy is different. Our philosophy is that as there are varieties in this material world, there are varieties in the spiritual world. That varieties. Just like the sky. In the sky, there are varieties. There are different kinds of planets, floating in the sky. Ordinarily seeing, in daytime, we see the sky is vacant. How it is vacant? It is not vacant. It is the defect of my eyes that I cannot see the varieties. The vari... At night we can see the varieties. There are so many planets, so many stars. And each of them full of varieties. Just like this planet. It is, we learn from the sastra. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisv asesa-vasudadhi bhinnam [Bs. 5.40]. There are innumerable universes. This universe is one only. And each and every universe, there are millions of planets. And each of them has got special significance. Just like this Moon planet, the Sun planet, this Earth planet, each one has got significance. Here, the bodies are earthly. In the Sun planet, the bodies are fire. Fiery. Similarly in the Moon planet, the bodies are different. Each and every planet.   (More...)

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