do not accept Krishna lila
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So we want ananda. So whatever I possess, now I give up. Then, if I don't get better engagement, then where is my ananda? There is no ananda. So as we do not get ananda, so then I come back again. There is a Bengali hearsay, napad jimane na, na jamai batta[?]. When a widow, old woman, her husband is dead-we have got experience-and she talks very loosely with the grandson-in-law. I have got experience. When we were young, young married, so my grandmother-in-law, my father-in-law's mother, she was talking very loosely, just like husband and wife. So that's a practical... Because she..., she is hopeless of getting another husband because she is old enough. So where is the husband? She accepts or talks like husband to the grandson-in-law. So similarly, the Mayavadi philosophers, they do not accept Krsna or Krsna's lila. They think it is maya. They do not accept it. So there is no ananda. Therefore they come down again. Punar musiko bhava. Again open hospital, because there is no engagement. And he has to raise fund. So this is very easy thing: "Sir, I am going to open a hospital. Give me some fund." Nowadays, especially, it is very difficult to collect fund. If you say, "I am going to open a temple," nobody will give you. But if you say, "I am going to open a hospital," he'll give you.
(More...) The impersonalists sometimes misunderstand devotional service in such a way that they divide Krsna from His paraphernalia and pastimes. The impersonalists sometimes misunderstand devotional service in such a way that they divide Krsna from His paraphernalia and pastimes. For example, the Bhagavad-gita is spoken on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, and the impersonalists say that although Krsna is of interest, the battlefield of Kuruksetra isn't. The devotees, however, also know that the battlefield of Kuruksetra by itself has nothing to do with their business, but in addition they know that "Krsna" does not mean just Krsna alone. He is always with His associates and paraphernalia. For instance, if someone says, "Give something to eat to the man with the weapons," the eating process is done by the man and not by the weapons. Similarly, in Krsna consciousness, a devotee may be interested in the paraphernalia and locations-such as the battlefield of Kuruksetra-which are associated with Krsna, but he is not concerned with simply any battlefield. He is concerned with Krsna-His speech, His instructions, etc. It is because Krsna is there that the battlefield is so important.
(More...) This is the summary understanding of what Krsna consciousness is. Without this understanding one is sure to misunderstand why the devotees are interested in the battlefield of Kuruksetra. One who is interested in Krsna becomes interested in His different pastimes and activities.
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