Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

174 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 8
ananda-cin-maya-rasa-pratibhavitabhis
tabhir ya eva (lija-rupataya kalabhib
go/aka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhato
govindam adi-puru�arh tam aharh bhajami
"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord. He resides in His own realm, Goloka, with
Radha, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic
potency [hladinil. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody exten­
sions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful
spiritual rasa."
The gopis are also of the same spiritual quality (nija-rupataya) because they are
expansions of Kr�Qa's pleasure potency. Neither Kr�Qa nor the gopis have anything
to do with lumps of matter or the material conception. In the material world, the
living entity is encaged within a material body, and due to ignorance he thinks
that he is the body. Lusty desire, enjoyment between male and female, is all mate­
rial. One cannot compare the lusty desires of a materialistic man to the lusty
desires of Kr�Qa. Unless one is advanced in spiritual science, he cannot understand
the lusty desires between Kr�Qa and the gopis. In Caitanya-caritamrta the lusty
desire of the gopis is compared to gold. The lusty desires of a materialistic man, on
the other hand, are compared to iron. At no stage can iron and gold be compared.
The living entities-moving and nonmoving-are part and parcel of Kr�Qa;
therefore they originally have the same kind of lusty desire. However, when this
lusty desire is expressed through matter, it is abominable. When a living entity is
spiritually advanced and liberated from material bondage, he can understand
Kr�Qa in truth. As stated in Bhagavad-gita:
janma karma ca me divyam
evarh yo vetti tattvatab
tyaktva deharh punar janma
naiti mam eti so 'rjuna
"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does
not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains
My eternal abode, 0 Arjuna." (Bg. 4.9)
When one can understand the body of Kr�Qa as well as the Lord's lusty desires,
one is immediately liberated. A conditioned soul encaged within the material
body cannot understand Kr�Qa. As stated in Bhagavad-gita:
manu�yal)arh sahasre�u
ka5cid yatati siddhaye
yatatam api siddhanarh
kascin marh vetti tattvatab