SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 32] The Supreme Lord Is Equal to Everyone 43PURPORTDifferent persons achieve different types of mukti-sayujya, salokya,sdrilpya, sdmipya and sdr$#-according to their own intense desire,which is called bhava. Thus it is described here that the gopis, by theirlusty desires, which were based upon their intense love for .KrQa, becamethe most beloved devotees of the Lord. Although the gopis atV:rndiivana expressed their lusty desires in relationship with a paramour(parakiya-rasa), they actually had no lusty desires. This is significant ofspiritual advancement. Their desires appeared lusty, but actually theywere not the lusty desires of the material world. Caitanya-caritamrtacompares the desires of the spiritual and material world to gold and iron.Both gold and iron are metal, but there is a vast difference in their value.The lusty desires of the gopis for .KrQa are compared to gold, and materiallusty desires are compared to iron.Karhsa and other enemies of .KrQa merged into the existence of Brahman,but why should .KrQa's friends and devotees have the same position?.KrQa's devotees attain the association of the Lord as His constantcompanions, either in V:rndavana or in the VailmQha planets. Similarly,although Narada Muni wanders in the three worlds, he has exalted devotionfor NiirayaQa (aiSvaryamdn). The V:rQis and Yadus and the fatherand mother of .KrQa in V:rndiivana all have familial relationships with.KrQa; .KrQa's foster father and mother in V:rndiivana, however, aremore exalted than Vasudeva and Devaki.TEXT 32sfq WI itwf: Rq srRr I rt;ucql'lR: f.mrllilkatamo 'pi na venal! syatpaiicdndrh purn$arh pratitasmdt kenapy upayenamanab, kf$1J.e nivesayetkatamab, api-anyone; na-not; venab,-the atheistic King Vena;syat-would adopt; paiicdndm-of the five (previously mentioned);purn$am-the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prati-in regard to;