So our Krsna consciousness movement is how to become one of the gopī-jana.
color:#666666"">Purport to Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
New York, July 20, 1971
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color:#666666"">Prabhupāda: So you know this song Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava?
color:#666666"">Devotees: Jaya!
color:#666666"">Prabhupāda: So you can follow me?
color:#666666"">Devotees: Jaya! Haribol! (Śrīla Prabhupāda leads singing of Jaya
color:#666666"">Rādhā-Mādhava)
color:#666666"">Prabhupāda: So this is the—sit down—original nature of Kṛṣṇa, original nature of Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a. He is Rādhā-Mādhava. He is the lover of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. And kuñja-vihārī, always enjoying the company of the gopīs within the bushes ofVrdavana forest. Rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī. So He’s not only lover of Rādhārāṇī,but braja-jana- vallabha. The whole residents of Vṛndāvana,they love Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a. They do not know anything else. They do not know whether Kṛṣṇais God, or not; neither they are very much harassed, that “I shall love Kṛṣṇaif He is God.” “He may be God or He may be whatever He is. It doesn’t matter,but we love God, Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a.” That’s all. That is called unnalloyed love. “If Kṛṣṇais God, then I shall love Him”—this is conditional love. This is not pure love.Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a may be God or whatever He may be, but by His wonderful acts,the Vrajavāsī, they are thinking, “Oh Kfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇa,He is very wonderful child, maybe some demigod. Maybe some demigod.” Becausepeople are generally under impression that the demigods are all-powerful.They’re powerful within this material world. But they do not know that Kṛṣṇais above all of them. Īśvara"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ḥfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666""> paramaḥkcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">acolor:#666666"">ḥcolor:#666666""> sac-cid-ānanda- vigrahafont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ḥ[Bs. 5.1]. The highest demigod, Brahmā, is giving his opinion, “The supremecontroller is Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a.”
color:#666666"">So as the residents of Vfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛndāvana, they love Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a without any condition, similarly, Kṛṣṇa also loves them without any condition. Vraja-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī.When the inhabitants of Vcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">ndāvana were in danger because they stopped Indra-yajña andIndra became very angry, and he sent very great, powerful cloud and rained overVcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">ndāvana incessantly for seven days, so when the inhabitantsbecame very much disturbed, K"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">a, although He was onlyseven years old boy, He saved them by lifting the Govardhana Hill. So He taughtIndradeva, demigod, that “To stop your disturbance is the business of My littlefinger. That’s all.” So he came down to his knees. These things you’ll find inKcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a book. So as the Gopī-jana-vallabha, His only business is howto protect gopī- jana. So our K"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">a consciousness movementis how to become one of the gopī-jana. Then K10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇawill save us from any danger, even by lifting a hill or mountain. Kṛṣṇais so kind and so powerful. When Kfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇalifted the hill, He did not practice some yoga system. And that is God.Although He was a child, He was playing like a child, He was dealing like achild, but when there was need, He was manifesting as God. That is Kṛṣṇa.That is Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a, not that He has to go and practice some yoga system. Then Hebecomes God. No. He’s not that type of God, not manufactured God. He’s God.
color:#666666"">So gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. And as a child, as beloved child of Yaśodā, Yaśodā-nandana,… Kfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇa likes to be a child of a devotee. He wants to be chastised from His devoteefather and mother. Because everyone worships Him, nobody goes to chastise Him,so He takes pleasure when a devotee chastises Him. That is Kṛṣṇa’sservice. If Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a takes pleasure being chastised, so the responsibility is takenby a devotee: “All right, I shall become Your father and chastise You.” When Kṛṣṇawants to fight, one of His devotees becomes Hira10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṇyakaśipuand fights with Him. So all activities of Kfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇais with His devotees. He is… Therefore, to become associate of Kṛṣṇa,to develop Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a consciousness… Yaśodā- nandana vraja-jana-vallabha,vraja-jana-rañjana. His only business is how to satisfy… As braja-jana’sbusiness is how to satisfy K"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">a, similarly, Kṛṣṇa’sbusiness is how to satisfy braja-jana. This is reciprocation of love.Yamunā-tīra-vana-cārī. Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is wandering on the banksof Yamunā to please the gopīs, the cowherd boys, the birds, beasts, calves.They are not ordinary birds, beasts, calves or men. They are on the top ofself-realization. Kcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">ta-pucolor:#666666"">ṇcolor:#666666"">ya-puñjācolor:#666666"">ḥcolor:#666666"">. After many, many lives they got that position, to play with Kṛṣṇa.
color:#666666"">So our Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a consciousness movement is so nice that everyone can go to Kṛṣṇaloka and become His associate, as a friend or so many other things, as a servant, as father, as mother. And Kcolor:#666666"">ṛṣṇcolor:#666666"">a is agreeable to any one of these propositions. These thingsare described very nicely in our Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So Kṛṣṇadoes not go even a step from V"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ndāvana. The original Kṛṣṇais Vcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">ndāvana. That is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā,
color:#666666"">cintāmacolor:#666666"">ṇcolor:#666666"">i-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛkṣa- lakcolor:#666666"">ṣcolor:#666666"">āvcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">tecolor:#666666"">ṣcolor:#666666"">u surabhīr abhipālayantam lakfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambrahma-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-purucolor:#666666"">ṣcolor:#666666"">acolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666""> (tam ahacolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666""> bhajāmi) [Bs. 5.29]
color:#666666"">Brahmā is accepting the Supreme Personality of Govinda, Kṛṣṇa in Vcolor:#666666"">ṛcolor:#666666"">ndāvana. Ve"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṇfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">uṁ kvacolor:#666666"">ṇcolor:#666666"">antam: “He is engaged in playing flute.”
color:#666666"">(vecolor:#666666"">ṇcolor:#666666"">ucolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666""> kvacolor:#666666"">ṇcolor:#666666"">antam) aravinda-dalāyatākfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṣaṁ barhāvatacolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666"">sam asitāmbuda-sundarāfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṅgam kandarpa-kocolor:#666666"">ṭcolor:#666666"">i-kamanīya-viśe"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṣfont-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#666666"">a-śobhaṁgovindam ādi-purucolor:#666666"">ṣcolor:#666666"">acolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666""> tam ahacolor:#666666"">ṁcolor:#666666""> bhajāmi [Bs. 5.30]
color:#666666"">So take advantage of these books, this knowledge, and this prasādam, this chanting, and be happy and go to K10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666"">ṛṣṇa. So nice thing. All right. (end)
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