From pain and difficulty to bliss.
Child bearing means the pain of childbirth , but the pain and difficulties bring the sweetness of a loving child ..
The Vraja Gopies of Vrndavana create a festival of happiness in the heart of Krishna, who displays His unlimited pastimes . He exhibits these pastimes to demonstrate the wonderful qualities of ever increasing love and attraction in the highest of spiritual realms , that of pure spontaneous unmotivated spiritual love , a competition of love . Perverted reflections and hints of pure love are seen here in this earthly plane , but we should learn of its origins and the selfless beauty of Krishna’s spiritual planes along with the science and nature of spiritual senses . Krishna attracts His devotees and those pious souls who have properly cultivated higher consciousness and practice high culture by His activities , the all attractive Krishna becomes especially attractive to such persons.
The trancendental method Krishna employs when wishing to attract the Vraja Gopies is to send personified messages through His flute music . Music takes on much greater dimensions in the super subjective plane of a varigated spiritual world. Having heard the call of the personified Cupid , a call that 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.
Krishna is our greatest friend , master , lover, and relative . The sound of His flute is calling everyone to service . God is calling us all He is always enthusiastic and all inclusive , and His Vraja Gopi friends all dance and play music at the dead of night in a artistic festival beyond comprehension , with the sixty four excellences of trancendance on display , a trancendental festival that lasted millions of years , the time dimensions are 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 . Anyone 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 that Krishna sometimes appears very harsh . It’s very difficult to overcome all difficulties of a body and mind to properly develop unalloyed devotion toward Him . This harshness and the external 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 , like the inside of the coconut . Dedication and devotion towards His eternal service need cultivating, and that means at times difficulties, but in difficulties by determination, we can aquire the characteristics of pure devotees that are impeccable, to say the least . Through the service of such residents of Vrndavana , the pure devotees , who Krishna dearly loves , we get the good fortune of assisting as they serve the emaculate senses of Dhira Lalita Krishna, or His devotees in Mathura or Dwarka ..
So, austerities and hardships cause pain in many ways even in material life , but in Krishna consciousness, it opens up a spiritual heart and brings the sweetest of all hearts .
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