So this Krsna, being Param 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, sudra. So they give up everything, brahma-sukhanubhutya, 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 Param 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. So we should not take in that way. We should follow the footsteps of Caitanya-caritamrta kar, that we should understand that this pranaya-vikrtih, this transformation of loving affairs between Radha and Krsna, this is not like this, the ordinary boy and girl. It is ahladini sakti. If we take that, then we are misled. How He can take? Because for understand brahma-sukha we are giving up everythingI mean from the Mayavadi point of viewand again, Krsna being Param Brahman, how He can indulge in material happiness? This is the argument. Brahma-sukha, to understand brahma-sukha, to release brahma-sukha, if one is giving up everything material... There are three kinds of sukha: material sukha, brahma-sukha, and spiritual sukha. Brahma-sukha is on the margin. Sukha means happiness. Therefore, from logical point of view, we should conclude it that "Krsna, being Parabrahman, how He can indulge in material happiness?" This is very important point. If for understanding little bit of brahma-sukha we are giving up all material enjoyment, how Krsna can enjoy materially? He is Param Brahman. Therefore those sahajiyas, those who are taking that Krsna is enjoying with ordinary girls, they are very, very, much misled. That is not the fact. Therefore it is said, hladini sakti. This is different. This is in the spiritual world the topmost mellow, hladini sakti.   (More...)

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