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TRANSLATION:
"The creeper greatly expands in the Goloka Vrndavana planet,
and there it produces the fruit of love for Krsna. Although remaining
in the material world, the gardener regularly sprinkles the creeper
with the water of hearing and chanting.
PURPORT:
In Goloka Vrndavana the devotees have very intimate relationships
with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The devotee engages in the
Lord's service in great ecstatic love. Such love was exhibited personally
by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His teachings to the people of the material
world. The fruit of the devotional creeper is pure desire to serve
and please the senses of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsnendriya-priti-iccha
dhare 'prema' nama. (Cc. Adi 4.165) In the spiritual world one has
no desire other than to please the senses of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. The conditioned soul within the material world can neither
understand nor appreciate how the devotee in the material world can
render confidential service to the Lord out of feelings of ecstatic
love and always engage in pleasing the Supreme Lord's senses. Although
seen within this material world, the pure devotee always engages in
the confidential service of the Lord. An ordinary neophyte devotee
cannot realize this; therefore it is said, vaisnavera kriya-mudra
vijnaneha na bujhaya. The activities of a pure Vaisnava cannot be
understood even by a learned scholar in the material world.
(C.C.
Madhya 19.155)
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