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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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These rascal Vedāntists, they try to kill Kṛṣṇa. They want to become himself Kṛṣṇa, the so-called Vedāntists. Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ (BG 15.15). The purpose of reading Vedānta means to understand Kṛṣṇa. So without understanding Kṛṣṇa, without being trained up how to understand Kṛṣṇa, if one reads about Kṛṣṇa's rāsa-līlā, he'll go to hell.
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[[Vanisource:720623 - Lecture SB 02.03.25 - Los Angeles|720623 - Lecture SB 02.03.25 - Los Angeles]]
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The beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, begins, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). What is this Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa? Janmādy asya yataḥ. "He is the origin of everything." And we, if we take Kṛṣṇa as ordinary person and He's dancing with the gopīs just like ordinary thing, then what Bhāgavata he will understand? He will go to hell. He's deriding, taking Kṛṣṇa very insignificantly. Avajña. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). "These rascals, because I observe My pastimes just like human being, they're accepting Me as human being, ordinary." Mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ. They do not know what is the background of Kṛṣṇa.

The background of Kṛṣṇa is in the beginning said, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]), the first aphorism of Vedānta-sūtra. That means . . . Vedānta means to understand Kṛṣṇa. These rascal Vedāntists, they try to kill Kṛṣṇa. They want to become himself Kṛṣṇa, the so-called Vedāntists. Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). The purpose of reading Vedānta means to understand Kṛṣṇa. So without understanding Kṛṣṇa, without being trained up how to understand Kṛṣṇa, if one reads about Kṛṣṇa's rāsa-līlā, he'll go to hell.

Because he has got the tendency of this easy sex, so he thinks, "Kṛṣṇa is like us." And therefore, for ordinary men, this kṛṣṇa-līlā . . . kṛṣṇa-līlā means they simply understand kṛṣṇa-līlā means Kṛṣṇa's rāsa-līlā. That's all. And Kṛṣṇa's killing the Kaṁsa, that is not līlā. Because Kaṁsas, the rākṣasas, they are afraid of being vanquished by Kṛṣṇa. So they do not like that līlā; they'll like this līlā. So therefore the idea is that if we want to understand Kṛṣṇa, we should . . . Kṛṣṇa understanding is not so easy.
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