Kṛṣṇa never says that, "First of all you hear My līlā with the gopīs." He never says that. He first of all says that, "You surrender unto Me." First of all learn how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. First of all learn how to love Kṛṣṇa. Then you can taste what is Kṛṣṇa's līlā with the gopīs. It is just like mukhāravinda. Just like . . . Kṛṣṇa's līlā in the Daśama-skandha with the gopīs is compared with the Kṛṣṇa's face, smiling face. But we have to worship Kṛṣṇa beginning with the feet. Not immediately we shall look to the face of Kṛṣṇa. We shall misunderstand. First of all try to be Kṛṣṇa's devotee by offering your worshipable things at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. The First Canto or Second Canto of Bhagavad-gītā are the two lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. So from the very beginning we should hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Gradually, we shall come to the face. That is real understanding of Kṛṣṇa. And without understanding of the other nine cantos of Bhagavad-gītā, er, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, if we simply jump over the Tenth Canto, and especially to the Thirty-fifth Chapter, the five chapters, Rāsa-pañcādhyāya, this is not very favorable. Of course, it is favorable. Kṛṣṇa's līlā, you hear any way, this way or that way . . . but if we misunderstand Kṛṣṇa, then there is falldown. That is instructed by Śrī . . . Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, that don't try to understand Kṛṣṇa's līlā all of a sudden without understanding Kṛṣṇa tattvataḥ.
So regulative principle—to serve, as it is stated in the śāstras or as it is enjoined by the spiritual master.
- ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgo 'tha bhajana-kriyā
- tato 'nartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt tato niṣṭhā tato rucis
- athāsaktis tato bhāvas . . .
- sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
- (CC Madhya 23.14-15)
Krama. So dīna-vatsalāḥ. The mahātmās who instructed Nārada Muni that, "Here is the confidential knowledge, please fully surrender unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa." So Nārada Muni admits here, anvavocan gamiṣyantaḥ. Gamiṣyantaḥ means the mahātmās were going. He served for four months. So they became very happy; they became very pleased. This is the business: how to make the mahātmā pleased. Yasya . . . yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. If you try to please mahātmā, the spiritual master, then bhagavat-prasādaḥ will automatically come. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ.