By Patita Pavana dasa
Under discussion is SB 4.30.5 purport: “The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Here is the verse and purport, this statement is part of:
“The Personality of Godhead, appearing on the shoulder of Garuda, seemed like a cloud resting on the summit of the mountain known as Meru. The transcendental body of the Personality of Godhead was covered by attractive yellow garments, and His neck was decorated with the jewel known as Kaustubha-mani. The bodily effulgence of the Lord dissipated all the darkness of the universe.
PURPORT
As stated in Caitanya-caritamrita (Madhya 22.31):
krishna—surya-sama maya haya andhakara
yahan krishna, tahan nahi mayara adhikara
The Lord is just like the effulgent sun. Consequently, whenever the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present, there cannot be darkness or ignorance. Actually this dark universe is illuminated by the sun, but the sun and moon simply reflect the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Lord. In Bhagavad-gita (7.8) the Lord says, prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh: “I am the illuminating energy of both the sun and the moon.” The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is also confirmed in Brahma-samhita: yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. Being illuminated by the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything is freed from all darkness.”
Our comment : This “the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead” doesn’t mean that the souls are originally, eternally in the Brahman effulgence and then fall or rise. This can’t be concluded from the context.
From Brahman only fall no rise
This text states that Visnu illuminated all directions by His Brahmayjoti. This is a set of liberated brahmavadis, according to Srila Sanatana Gosvami’s
Brhad Bhagavatmrta 2.3.41 “Surrounded by the great perfected beings who were His devotees, at once different and nondifferent from Him. They surrounded Him in subtle spiritual forms, like beams of light around the sun.”
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead always invites His part-and-parcel jivas to share loving reciprocations with Him, even in the abode of liberation. He kindly considers the liberated souls who surround Him there His bhaktas, but actually they are hardly interested in personal service. The only bhakti they offer the Lord is to decorate Him as particles of His effulgence. Although they are eternal, indissolvable individuals, their separate personalities are now dormant and invisible.”
These souls always fall down to the material world, after some time, according to Srimad Bhagavatam 10.2.32
“O lotus-eyed Lord, although nondevotees who accept severe austerities and penances to achieve the highest position may think themselves liberated, their intelligence is impure. They fall down from their position of imagined superiority because they have no regard for Your lotus feet.”
The idea of the Brahman fall theorists, who think that the Brahman effulgence is the origin of the souls, is that the souls falling from brahman, fall into Maha-Visnu and are emanated out of Him at the time of the creation. Then these souls see the spiritual world and the material world and choose for one of these. But Brhad Bhagavatamrta and Srimad Bhagavatam write that these souls coming from the Brahman effulgence only fall down. No one rises to the spiritual planets.
“A spirit soul who falls down from the Brahmajyoti to the kingdom of maya may have a chance of associating with a pure devotee, and then he may be elevated to the spiritual planets of Vaikuntha or to Goloka Vrindavana. From the Brahmajyoti there is no direct promotion to the spiritual planets, and it is clearly stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam that such souls fall down: patanty adha”. (69-07-24, letter Srila Prabhupada)
Sun and moon originate life
Visnu also illuminated with the light of knowledge, according to the Bhaktivedanta purport.
The sun illuminates the universe during the day and the moon illuminates at night. Thus they are the “origin of all life”, deriving their light from the Lord.
“the sunlight is also emanating from that light which is emanating from that Goloka Vrindavana. That is the real light, which is called brahma-jyotir. “ (7-12-66 CC Madhya 20.154-157). The sun’s shine comes from Krishna, then to Balarama, then the two catur-vyuha’s of Dvaraka and Vaikuntha, then the three Visnu Purusa-avatara’s, then Surya-Narayana, then the devata surya-deva.
“The sunshine may expand all over the universe, but the source of the sunshine, namely the sun planet or the deity known as Surya-narayana, is the basis of such radiation. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna is the basis of the impersonal brahma-jyoti radiation, or the impersonal feature of the Lord.” (SB 2.6.17 p)
“All the demigods are living entities who have been appointed to their various posts as the masters of the moon, the earth, Venus and so on because of their great service and pious acts. Only the predominating deity of the sun, Surya Narayana, is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (SB 5.23.3 p)
His first minister is the demigod surya-deva.
The sunshine are photons, also conditioned souls, in susupti, in tamo-guna, with some physical light. But no one of them will somehow glimpse at Vaikuntha and become liberated.
The Brahman fall vadi’s try to see their theory in this purport, but this purport is on the shine of the sun and moon, which don’t have these feats.
Also the moon gives never liberated souls as effulgence. It gives “ life”, literally and figuratively, to the universe, not in the form of souls, with a choice for maya or Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada explains at many places how the moon gives us light at night, not the stars and quotes
ekas candras tamo hanta / na ca tara-ganair api
Innumerable stars cannot dissipate the darkness, nut one moon can illuminate the darkness. (Niti sastra, Canakya Pandita)
And he explains that the moon gives coolness or “life” after an exhausting, hot tropical day. And it gives taste and “life” to the vegetables. Srila Prabhupada also explains many times how the sun is the cause of the “life” in the universe; that the other planets originate from the sun and that they revolve because of the sun’s heat (SB 4.31.16) and rest on the sunshine (conversations 13/2/75) and that the whole material world is product of sunshine. No word on falling or rising souls.
See the following lecture with all these points:
“ Jyotisham api taj jyotih, param. There are different kinds of illumination, sunshine, moonshine, electricity, fire. But that jyoti which is directly emanating from Krishna’s body, that is the real jyoti. So on account of Krishna’s bodily rays, the whole creation is coming out. That is Krishna’s inconceivable power, brahma-jyotir. Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Athato brahma jijnasa. In the Vedanta-sutra, you have to inquire about that param jyoti, brahma-jyotir. And from that param jyoti, everything is coming out. Just like from the sunshine.
What is this material world? This material world is resting on the sunshine. Because the sunshine is there, therefore all the planets are rotating. There is a small machine. You’ll find it. As soon as it is heated, within that machine the balls begin to rotate. Similarly, the certain temperature of the sunshine, the whole planetary system is rotating on the orbit, on account of the sunshine. This is scientifically true. And because there is sunshine, there is vegetation, there is water, there is rainfall, and from the rainfall, there is agricultural products.
So as the sunshine is the cause of all material variegatedness, similarly, the sunshine is also due to the brahma-jyotir. … It is only dependant on sunshine. Not only this planet, all the planets, unless there is sunshine… Because it is darkness. This material world is simply darkness.
..So people do not think of their imperfectness of the senses, how the senses working, dependent on the laws of material nature. Still, one is very proud of his senses, especially of the eyes. Adhyakshina—everything dependent on his eyes, although his eyes are completely useless without being helped by the light of the sun. So actually these eyes are useless. The eyes of the eyes is the sun. Yac cakshur esha savita sakala-grahanam. Every planetary system there are many millions and trillions of living entities. They can see only when there is sunrise.
This gayatri-mantra is, therefore, offering prayer to the savita. Om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi…. But there are many suns, not only one sun. As there are many universes, yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. Koti means innumerable. Numberless universes. And in each and every universe there is sunshine.
So this sunshine is reflection of the brahma-jyotir. Yasya prabha prabhavatah [Bs. 5.40]. When the bodily rays, shining rays, of Krishna is there, then all these universes are generated. In another place, yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah [Bs. 5.48]. Jagad-anda-nathah means… Jagad-anda means universe. Each universe has a principle living being. That is Lord Brahma. So there are many innumerable Brahmas also, innumerable Sivas, innumerable suns, innumerable moons, because there are innumerable universes. And each and every universe, there are innumerable planets. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotishv asesha-vasudhadi [Bs. 5.40]. Vasudha means this planet.
Vibhuti-bhinnam. Each planet has got different atmosphere. Nakshatranam aham sasi. Nakshatranam: “Among the stars and planets,” Krishna says, “I am the moon.”
So jyotisham api jyotis tamasah param. So this jyoti, this illumination, is beyond this material world. And because there is illumination, that illumination is reflected in the material world. You will find the reflection, bluish reflection, in the sky. It means that brahma-jyotir is bluish because it is coming out from the blue body of Krishna. Therefore it is bluish. We see the sky bluish, and in darkness we see, although it is darkness, there is some brightness in the sky. .. The sky is everywhere, but the covering is… seven times covered by different types of material elements, and that brahma-jyotir is penetrating through the covers, and little reflection we can see in the sky.
(lecture BG 13.18, 12-10-73 bombay)
Also he says that the sun purifies the mind and brings it to suddha-sattva– the superior ‘life’ (11/3/75 morning walk). In one conversation, (14/3/75), to elaborate, he says : “ In the material calculation the heat and light is the cause of material creation. Just like at the present moment there is not sufficient heat therefore the trees have no leaves. And as soon as there will be little more heat they will be all green. The creation of the foliage is due to the heat. Similarly light. So heat and light is the cause of this material creation. Similarly there is another light brahmajyoti, spiritual light. That is the original light. This is reflection.”
And the sun evaporates the water from the earth. That becomes cloud and when you deserve it, rains. (NOD 8/1/73).
Continuing on this SB 4.30.5 , then Srila Prabhupada quotes the Bg 7.8 the energy of the sun is Surya-Narayana.
Therefore: “The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” means that the Lord, who is beyond the moon and sun, is the ultimate source of the ‘life’, the sun and moon are giving.
No maya to see from the border while flying out of Maha-Visnu
Then Srila Prabhupada quotes Brahma-samhita that the Brahman light powers the illuminators of the material world.
Again, there is no hint or mentioning of the jiva sakti coming from the Brahman, and falling or rising from the brahmayjoti.
“The origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Lord” also refers to the souls coming from the pores and eyes of Maha-Visnu as pencils of His effulgence (Brahma Samhita T 5.20, 21). This brings life, souls to the pradhana or original matter and the universes are created.
These souls cannot see maya nor the spiritual world, as the Brahman fall theorists assume, because these souls are in a coma– susupti- since the last maha-pralaya, 311.04 billion years ago, and they wake up from that 2000 demigod years after they are emanated from Maha-Visnu. Then lord brahma starts creating material bodies. There are therefore also no material forms to be seen at the time the souls emanate from Maha-Visnu. See
SB 3.20.15 bhasya visvanatha , SB 2.9.8. , Brahma samhita 5.20 and jiva gosvami’s purport. The egg of Brahma is for 1000 years of the demigods bobbing on the causal ocean (SB 3.20.15). And after 1000 years of the demigods meditating, Brahma starts the process of creating the content of the universe (SB 2.9.8, SB 3.6.38).
Back home to Krishnaloka, Goloka Vrindavana
Nor do we find in this chapter 30 canto 4 any statement that the jivas come from the brahmajyoti -spiritual light.
To the contrary, in SB 4.30.1, Srila Prabhupada purports: “The highest perfection is to return home, back to Godhead”, which is according to his purport on SB 4.30.2 Vaikuntha-loka (loka = planet) and in SB 4.30.3 purport he states “According to Madhvacarya, the living entity is called puranjana because he has become an inhabitant of this material world.” – having descended from a Vaikuntha-planet.
SB 4.30.10 – going back home, back to Godhead
Srila Prabhupada explained to a French BBT devotee that Godhead means Krishna. It doesn’t mean indefinitely anything spiritual.
“Prabhupada: God means Supreme Person. But these advaitavadi, Mayavadis, they have made God everyone. God means Supreme Person, that is the dictionary word. “Supreme Being.” God does not mean ordinary, but they have made ordinary, anyone God: “I am God, you are God, he is God.” Then what is meaning of God?
Devotee: Therefore we say Godhead.
Prabhupada: Yes. Head man. There are many men; He is the head man. Godhead word is also there in the dictionary. You find out.
Devotee: “Godhead: being God or a God, divine nature, Deity, the Godhead, God.”
(Room Conversation with Professor Francois Chenique, August 5, 1976, New Mayapur [French farm]
Lucay de La Male)
– go back home, back to Godhead
SB 4.30.18 – return home, back to Godhead
The Pracetas were given special material facilities to enjoy…..at the end of their material enjoyment they would be promoted to the spiritual world and return to Godhead, which is Vaikuntha-loka according to SB 4.30.2 purport. The Pracetas came from the Vaikuntha-loka and returned to the Vaikuntha-loka.
Later in the purport we read: “.. return to Godhead, the abode of the Lord, mam upetya, My abode and then will never take birth again, never return to the material world.”
This can never be the brahmajyoti because from the brahmajyoti one will fall.
SB 4.30.27 “…..all the living entities who died on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra attained their original constitutional position (svarupa)…..”
SB 4.30.28 “…..the Lord in Vaikuntha immediately sent a chariot to bring the brahmana back home, back to Godhead.”
The home of the Lord of Vaikuntha is Vaikuntha-loka. The brahman effulgence is compared to hell.
“Those who are not devotees, simply jnanis or demons… they are offered the same place. .. Aruhya kricchrena param padam tatah [SB 10.2.32]. They practice severe austerities, penances, to enter into the Brahman effulgence. But the demons, simply by becoming enemy of Krishna, they immediately get that place. The demons who are killed by Krishna, they are immediately transferred to this Brahman effulgence. So just imagine, the place which is given to the enemies of Krishna, is that very covetable thing? Suppose if somebody comes who is my enemy, I give him some place, and somebody, my intimate friend, I give him some other place. Similarly, this Brahman effulgence is not at all covetable. Therefore Prabodhananda Sarasvatipada, he has composed a verse, that Brahman… Kaivalyam narakayate. Kaivalya means the Brahman effulgence, simply spiritual light. So kaivalyam narakayate. He says that this Brahman effulgence is just like hell…. The jnanis who are trying to merge into the Brahman effulgence, for devotee it is stated as hell. Kaivalyam narakayate. Tri-dasa-pur akasa-pushpayate (Caitanya-candramrita 5)
Sri Isopanishad, Mantra 13-15
Los Angeles, May 18, 1970
Our comment: Hell cannot be our home.
SB 4.30.30 “…..one returns home, back to Godhead…..Liberation begins with merging into the Brahman effulgence, realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is higher…One has to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the impersonal Brahman effulgence just as one has to approach the sun through the sunshine.”
SB 4.30.38 – return home, back to Godhead
SB 4.30.41 – return home, back to Godhead
SB 4.31.1 – return home, back to Godhead
– going home to the Kingdom of God
SB 4.31.24 “…..Then, meditating on the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord at the end of their lives, they advanced to the ultimate goal, Vishnuloka…..” where they came from according to SB 4.30.11 purport.
SB 4.31.30 – the path home, back to Godhead
SB 4.31.31 – the path home, back to Godhead
Now we will turn to the previous chapter
SB 4.29.4 – Originally the living entity is a spiritual being, but when he actually desires to enjoy this material world, he comes down.
SB 4.29.5 – ‘return home, back to Godhead‘ – which is according to SB 4.29.13 the Vaikuntha planets.
SB 4.29.6 – krishna bahirmukha hana bhoga-vancha kare
nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare
krishna-bahirmukha—inimical to Krishna; haiya—becoming; bhoga—sense gratification; vancha-kare—desires; nikata-stha—standing nearby; maya—the illusory energy of the Lord; tare—him; japatiya-dhare—slaps down.
TRANSLATION: As soon as one becomes inimical to Krishna and desires sense gratification, he is immediately struck down by the illusory energy of the Lord. (Jagadananda Pandita)
SB 4.29.8 – “Because of long association with material objects, he forgets his real spiritual activities…”
The souls had lilas, spiritual pastimes with Krishna, back home. According to brahmajyoti-fall-vada there was only some gazing at Maha-Visnu or the spiritual world, from far away. That is not described here. There were full spiritual activities at the home of the soul and the Godhead, that were rejected : krishna bahirmukha hana, the soul turned his face away.
Even if one proposes that the soul had lila at the border, while being emanated or flying out of Maha-Visnu, and then turned away, then this is the same as the situation in the spiritual world– lila with the Lord. Then the soul can also fall down from the spiritual world.
SB 4.29.22 – ‘returns home, back to Godhead’ – which is according to verse 20 purport ‘My eternal abode.’
SB 4.29.23 – ‘return home, back to Godhead’ 2x
SB 4.29.27 – The living entity’s constitutional position is very minute, and he can be misled in his choice. He may choose to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A servant may desire to start his own business and imitate his master, and when he chooses to do so, he may leave the protection of his master…Material bondage is caused by deviation from the service of the Lord”
SB 4.29.28 – Qualitatively the living entity is the same as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but because of his forgetfulness he gets different bodies in different planetary systems.
SB 4.29.28 – “The living entity is never material, and his material conception is simply a mistake due to forgetfulness. He is as brilliant as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Both the sun and the sunshine are very brilliant. The Lord is like the full shining sun, and the living entities are like the small particles of that sun which constitute the all-pervasive sunshine. When these small particles are covered by the cloud of maya, they lose their shining capacity. When the cloud of maya is gone, the particles again become brilliant and shining. As soon as the living entity is covered by the ignorance of maya, or darkness, he cannot understand his relationship with the Supreme God. Somehow or other, if he comes before the Lord, he can see himself as shining as the Supreme Lord, although he is not as extensive as the Lord. Because the living entity desires to imitate the Supreme Lord, he is covered by maya.”
In the brahmajyoti one has only a little light; one is in sat. The cit and ananda aspects are not developed.
“…again becomes brilliant and shining…in his relationship with the Supreme Lord…he comes before the Lord.”
In the brahmajyoti one cannot see the Lord and desire to imitate the Lord.
“Again becomes brilliant and shining as the Lord” means that his position before losing his shining capacity was not the brahmajyoti (of little or no cit: shining) but fully shining as the Lord, as there is a difference between the brilliance of the sun planet and the brilliance of the sunshine on the earth.
“We cannot imitate the Lord nor become the Supreme enjoyer …(then) we become conditioned by maya…The encagement of the living entity under the clutches of maya is brought about by forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord.”
“Under the influence of maya, the living entity becomes exactly like a person haunted by a ghost.” One was a normal person and then by a ghost one turns crazy. One was in one’s nitya-svarupa, a devotee and then maya turns one into a madman.
“The living entity forgets his position as an eternal servant of the Lord… forgetting his real contact with the Supreme Lord, he becomes a servant of maya.”
SB 4.29.34 – ‘return home, back to Godhead’ 2x
SB 4.29.47 – The purpose of life is to go back home, back to Godhead.
SB 4.29.48 – The verse is “They do not know their own abode (svam lokam), where in fact there is God, Janardana. Those who have smoky intelligence say that the Veda facilitates fruitive activities because they do not know that [Veda].”
In his commentary, Sridhara Svami states:
atad-vido ‘veda-jnah. yatas te svam svarupa-bhutam lokam
atma-tattvam veda-tatparya-gocaram na viduh. yatra devo ‘sti.
“‘They do not know that’ means ‘they do not know the Veda’ because they do not know svam lokam, ‘their own abode,’ which means their constitutional position, the truth about themselves, which is the real purport that one is to perceive in the Vedas. [And that constitutional position] is where God is.
Bhaktivedanta purport: “…their interest of life – to return home, back to Godhead.”
“…their real home in the spiritual world… there are many Vaikuntha planets, and the topmost planet is Krishnaloka, Goloka Vrindavana.”
Comment: the Brahman effulgence is also in the spiritual world, but that part is worse then hell, so that is not considered home. “the pure devotee would rather go to hell than merge into the effulgence of the Lord.” (CC Madhya 6.268-269 p.) Returning to one’s real home thus means Goloka. One came from the Vaikuntha planets, not from Brahman.
‘return home, back to Godhead’ 2x
‘return to Godhead…the spiritual Vaikuntha planets, and in particular the planet known as Goloka Vrindavana.’
‘One can go to the supreme planet (param vrajet) simply by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra…return home, back to Godhead.’
Conclusion of this 4.29.48: Go back home, Svam lokam, meaning one’s own and Krishna’s home, the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka Vrndavana.
SB 4.29.54 – Materialistic life means forgetting one’s constitutional position as the eternal servant of Krishna…has to return home, back to Godhead… ultimately return home, back to Godhead.
SB 4.29.61 – …attains his sat-cid-ananda form… returning home, back to Godhead.
SB 4.29.65 – krishna bahirmukha hana bhoga-vancha kare
nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare
krishna-bahirmukha—inimical to Krishna; haiya—becoming; bhoga—sense gratification; vancha-kare—desires; nikata-stha—standing nearby; maya—the illusory energy of the Lord; tare—him; japatiya-dhare—slaps down.
TRANSLATION: As soon as one becomes inimical to Krishna and desires sense gratification, he is immediately struck down by the illusory energy of the Lord. (Prema-vivarta, Jagadananda Pandita)
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the supreme enjoyer. When a living entity wants to imitate Him, he is given a chance to satisfy his false desire to lord it over material nature. That is the beginning of his downfall.”
SB 4.29.69 – returning home, back to Godhead
SB 4.29.75 – “…originally the living entity was as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his pure, spiritual existence…drops into the material conditions… The process of Krishna consciousness, by which one always thinks of Krishna, is the transcendental process by which one can revert to his original, spiritual existence.”
Comment: “As good as Krishna”
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is/was never in a contracted form as is the soul in the brahmajyoti.
“In his pure spiritual existence,” that cannot have been the brahmajyoti because that is described as avisuddha-budhaya impure and vimukta-manina one thinks he is in mukti. This impurity is not the modes of material nature but a covering of yoga-maya.
“Original” means for the Brahman fall vadi’s the brahmayjoti, not the brief meeting or seeing the spiritual world at the border. This meeting never happened, but, ‘go back to the original’ means that the origin was not the Brahman effulgence.
SB 4.29.83 – “…when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation.”
To end, this is Krishna’s invitation:
Why don’t you come back to Me and dance and sport with Me?” “Why you are rotting in this rotting dance, in false lila, temporary lila, or hellish lila.?
“Krishna’s business is rasadi-vilasa. He’s busy in dancing with the gopis. He has no other business. Just like we try to imitate Krishna. Big, big rich men, they go to the ball dance, to the night club for dancing. So wherefrom this propensity comes, dancing? That comes from the Supreme Lord. Rasadi-vilasa. Because Krishna has the business of dancing and we are part and parcel of Krishna, so we have got the same spirit of dancing. But because we are in the material world, the material covering has perverted the dancing propensity. ..But this dancing, our dancing, ball dancing, and that dancing is not the same. This is perverted reflection with inebrieties, dissatisfaction, frustration. But in the dancing of Krishna there is no such things. No inebrieties, no frustration. Because that is not false; that is real…. Krishna’s rasa dance is not ordinary ball dance like that. No. The ordinary dance is an imitation, perverted imitation. ..we do not know how to enjoy that dancing spirit. .. to take part in that dancing, it requires many, many millions of years tapasya. It is not ordinary thing. Ittham brahma-bhuta… There is a verse that krita-punya-punjah, sakam vijahruh krita-punya-punjah [SB 10.12.11]. To join with the rasa dance of Krishna, or to play with Krishna as cowherd boy, it requires krita-punya-punjah, many, many millions of births’ pious activities…. in rotation, after some lakhs of years, again Krishna comes on this planet. Therefore Krishna’s lila is nitya-lila. So just to attract us, that “You are fond of dancing. Why don’t you come back to Me and dance with Me?” this is Krishna’s business. “Why you are rotting in this rotting dance? You want association. You want sporting. Why don’t you come to Me and take part in My sporting with the cowherds boys?” This is invitation of Krishna.
So one who has got intelligence, they will try to enter into the pastimes, transcendental pastimes of the Lord, either as a cowherd boy or as a servant or as a flower, as a tree, or the water of Yamuna, or the land, or the father and the mother and the conjugal lover. Or it may be as enemy, as Aghasura, Bakasura, Putana. They are also blessed because they are acting with Krishna. This is the sum and substance of Vrindavana lila. Krishna comes, He exhibits His lila in Vrindavana to attract the conditioned souls, who are engaged in false lila, temporary lila, or hellish lila.”( Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 7.8, Vrindavana, March 15, 1974)
Hare Krishna
Patita Pavana dasa