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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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So Kṛṣṇa is always pure. Always pure. Perfect. So sarvaiśvarya-prakāśe (CC Madhya 20.398). There is pūrṇatama, the fullest expression of God. Now this connection of Kṛṣṇa and with the gopīs, apparently it is abominable, but in the spiritual sense, it is the highest, highest perfectional stage of love of Godhead. So this world is perverted reflection.
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[[Vanisource:670102 - Lecture CC Madhya 20.391-405 - New York|670102 - Lecture CC Madhya 20.391-405 - New York]]
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So Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the King Parīkṣit, inquired to his teacher, Śukadeva Goswami, that Kṛṣṇa is on this earth, He appeared on this earth for paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām, dharma saṁsthāpanārthāya . . . dharma saṁsthāpanārthāya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]): Just to establish the process of religiosity. And India at least, still, the Vedic principle is that a, a lady or a girl who is especially married, or unmarried, she cannot mix with any other man. So that is against religious principle.

So this question was raised that these girls who were already married, how they went to Kṛṣṇa for dancing with Him, and how Kṛṣṇa allowed them to dance with Him, because against religious principles. This question was raised by Parīkṣit Mahārāja. Of course, you cannot imagine that a girl going to a friend and dancing with him, that is not against religious principle. But according to Vedic principles, this is irreligious.

So this was questioned by Mahārāja Parīkṣit to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī replied in many ways, but the summary is that, "How this can be impure?" That "If by chanting Kṛṣṇa's name one becomes pure, how dancing with Kṛṣṇa can be impure?" And he gave that example, tejīyasāṁ na doṣāyet ([[Vanisource:SB 10.33.29|SB 10.33.29]]).

One who is powerful, to . . . for him there is no question of contamination. Just like the sun. He gave the example, the sun. Sun is so powerful that sunshine is touching all contaminated place, but sun is not contaminated. Rather, by the sunshine it is sterilized—contaminated place becomes sterilized—as a crude example in the material world. Similarly, in God's association there is no question of irreligiosity. If there is ecstasy, intense love for God, there is no question of contamination.

So contamination is considered within the material world. In the spiritual world, there is no contamination. And actually, when the gopīs went to Kṛṣṇa, they approached there in their spiritual body, not with material bodies. Because it is stated in the Bhāgavata that when the gopīs left their house, their husbands saw that the wife is sleeping on the same bed. So Kṛṣṇa, I mean to say, danced with the gopīs not with their . . . in their material body, but in their spiritual body. These are the descriptions are there.

So Kṛṣṇa is always pure. Always pure. Perfect. So sarvaiśvarya-prakāśe ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.398|CC Madhya 20.398]]). There is pūrṇatama, the fullest expression of God. Now this connection of Kṛṣṇa and with the gopīs, apparently it is abominable, but in the spiritual sense, it is the highest, highest perfectional stage of love of Godhead. So this world is perverted reflection. There . . .

There is such psychological things, that a married woman wants to mix with his . . . with her friend, or a married man wants to mix with another. Wherefrom this idea comes, this psychological . . .? It comes from God. In God there is. But there, it is in perfect order. Here, it is contaminated. Here, it is contaminated. So we should not imitate the perfect thing in the contaminated place.
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