When the Vraja Gopies of Vrndavana, who Krishna created a festival of happiness in the heart of Krishna , who displayed  His unlimited pastimes , exhibited  to bring a flavour  of the highest realms of spontaneous unmotivated pure spiritual love to  this earthly plane and attract  His devotees and those pious souls who have properly cultivated consciousness showing respect for all beings and who  also culture God consciousness.

The  trancendental method Krishna uses when He wishes  to attract the Vraja Gopies is to send personified messages through His flute music ,  music takes on much greater dimension in the super subjective plane of a varigated spiritual world.  Having heard the call of the personified Cupid ,  a call which enters the depths of the Gopies hearts , they  abandoned their sobriety,  fear , shyness, and any  sense of discrimination, and immediately answered the call .

Complete sacrifice is required in the ultimate plane of love , and nothing short of that will suffice.

The  Catholic order of the  bride’s of Christ , or  Nuns living in convents , or monks living in monasteries,  perhaps could understand.

Actually, Krishna is our greatest friend , master , lover, and relative .  The sound of His flute calls  everyone to service , including His Vraja Gopi friends  to  dance  and  play music  n a night time festival ,  a trancendental festival that lasted millions of years , as the  time dimensions were adjusted by Krishna , from our 12 hours to the 12 hours of Lord Bramha,  lasting 4.5 billion years . As Einstein said,  time is relative,  its also interchangeable, it seems .

Currently the flute sound has been transformed into the   Nama Sankirtana , the chanting of Gods names , this chanting is calling us all to the service of Mahaprabhu and through Him the service of the residents of Vraja headed by Vrsabhanu Nandini Srimati Radharani , any one hearing or vibrating God’s names can transport themselves to the spiritual world.

Srila Prabhupada, wonderful Godbrother and great friend of Prabhupada once gave that comparison , H.H. Srila Sridhar Swami , he is a brilliant scholar and deep thinker .

On arrival ,to the dancing ground,  having responded to the call to come to the  forests of Vraja , Krishna tested the Gopies love and determination by externally appearing to ask them to return to their family lives and duties , He appeared to reject their services.

Srila Kavi karnapura in his Ananda Vrndavana Campa indicates to us all , Krishna sometimes appears very harsh ,and it’s very difficult to overcome all difficulties of a body and mind to properly develop unalloyed devotion toward Him ,  but this harshness and difficulties experienced  by us , are the workings of His external energies,  they are like the outside of the coconut,  Krishna is very very sweet by nature ,and any difficulties we maybe experiencing are gradually cracking the shell of our conditioned nature ,  and they serve a purpose in helping us aquire hearts of sweetness , dedication and devotion towards His eternal service , in doing so we can aquire the characteristics of pure devotees who are  impeccable to say the least .  Through the service of such residents of Vrndavana ,who Krishna dearly loves we may get the good fortune of assisting them as they serve the emaculate senses of Dhira Lalita Krishna,  or equally through His devotees in Mathura or Dwarka ..

So, austerities and hardships cause pain in many ways.  But in Krishna, consciousness brings the sweetness of the heart .

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