Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

Text 139] Lord Caitanya's Travels to the Holy Places
yanti deva-vrata devan
pitfn yanti pitr-vratab
bhOtani yanti bhOtejya
yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam
"Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those
who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who
worship ancestors go the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with
Me."
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Only when one regains his original spiritual body can one enter into the
spiritual kingdom. As far as the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord are concerned, it is
futile to attempt to imitate the Lord's dances within the material world. One has
to attain a spiritual body like the gopis to enter into the pastimes of rasa-lila In the
nayarh sukhapo verse, the devotees are referred to as bhaktimat, that is, they are
fully engaged in devotional service and are devoid of material contamination.
Simply by artificially imitating Kr�Qa's rasa-lila dance or artificially thinking oneself
Kr�Qa and dressing oneself up like a sakhi, one cannot enter into His rasa-lila
dance. Kr�Qa's rasa-lila dance is completely spiritual. It has nothing to do with ma­
terial contamination; therefore no one can enter into the pastimes by artificial ma­
terial means. That is the instruction of this verse.
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