Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Intelligent men should inquire, "Where can we enter into family life and eternally enjoy?" That place is Krishna's family. You should enter into Krishna's Vrindavan family, where Krishna has his father, mother, and his friends, his lovers, his beloved, his cows, his garden, and his Yamuna. Then yad gatva na nivartante — you will not have to return back to this temporary family. [Bg. 15.6]
Krishna comes for this reason. Krishna is so kind. He says, "You are so fond of family life — just see, I have got my family. I am not impersonal. I have my father. I have my mother. I have my friends. I have my beloved, Radharani, and the gopis. I have got everything. You can also enter. Come! Why you are rotting here?" That is Krishna's mission. The Krishna consciousness movement means to practice in this life how to enter Krishna's family. You enter Krishna's family as you like. There are five rasas, types of relationships: santa-rasa, dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa, vatsalya-rasa, and madhurya-rasa. These mellows are there in the spiritual world and they are also reflected in this material world. Tejo-vari-mrdam vinimayah. This material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. Here there is also master and servant, there is also friend and friend, there is also father and mother and son, and there is also lover and beloved. Everything is here in this material world, but they are imitation, chaya. They are not reality. So if you want real friendship, then make friendship with Krishna.
— From a lecture in Mayapur, 23 October 1974.
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