The soul is the production of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore ultimately, He is our dearmost friend. We are trying to love somebody. That somebody is a perverted reflection of Kṛṣṇa. Actually . . . just like the child. The child is searching after the mother's breast, and it is crying. If somebody takes the child, he's not satisfied. Because he cannot express that, "I want my mother."
Similarly, we are hankering after loving Kṛṣṇa in a perverted way. But because we have no information of Kṛṣṇa, we have forgotten our relationship with Kṛṣṇa, therefore we are loving this body, that body. Ultimately, I am loving a cat or dog or something else. The love is there, but we have misplaced the love. As soon as we replace our love to Kṛṣṇa, then our perfection of love is manifested and our perfection of life is also achieved.
Lord Caitanya preached this philosophy that premā pum-artho mahān. Prema, prema means love. His philosophy, Lord Caitanya's philosophy, is ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayaḥ. Vrajeśa-tanayaḥ means Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa appeared as the son of the king of Vraja, Vṛndāvana. Therefore . . . and tanaya means son. So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, His propagation, His teaching, the substance of His teaching is that Kṛṣṇa is the most worshipable object. Ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas tad-dhāma vṛndāvanam. And as He is worshipable, similarly His place, the Vṛndāvana, where He appeared, that is also worshipable.
- ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas tad-dhāma vṛndāvanam
- ramyā kācid upāsanā vraja-vadhū-vargeṇā yā kalpitā.
- (Srinatha Cakravarti, Caitanya-manjusa of his commentary on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam)