Amorous Sports
Prof. Suthers: How can Your Holiness's statements [about Gaudiya Vaisnava morality as being by far superior than that of Christianity ] be reconciled with the descriptions that are found about Krsna's amorous sports?
Srila Sarasvati Thakura: Krsna's Amorous Sports are not temporal like the lustful sports of dramatic heroes and heroines like Romeo-Juliet or even ideal spouses. Lust as prevalent in this world is only a mental passion, but the lust of the transcendental world has its own form. Here lust is always goaded by the enemy (one of the six passions); whereas in the transcendental region of Krsna, the loveliness of the spiritual Body of Krsna ever drives the Lust for Krsna, which takes form as sublimated love or the desire to gratify the immaculate senses of Krsna. ... Krsna's Amorous Sports are not to be called indecency, because it is Krsna Who is the only one unrivalled Enjoyer, Embodiment of the Real Truth and the Spiritual Despot.
Prof. Suthers: I cannot fully appreciate this; please let me understand it a little more clearly.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura: Suppose there are some angles, two right angles, four right angles, etc. There is the contracted character of a corner in the acute, obtuse and right angle. But in the two right angles called the straight angle, even though called an angle, there is no cotractedness or want of straightness, as is the case with angles in general. Such is the case with the Autocrat Krsna. There is no want or contractedness or despicable character or indecency in the perfect Entity Krsna, like the perfect circle of 360 degrees, though the communities of enjoyers or renounces, championing morality or immorality, may, due to the meagerness of their intellect, wrongly regard the lustfulness of Krsna, the result of His despotism which is only His, as vulgar as like that of common men and other creatures.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura: Krsna's Amorous Sports are not temporal like the lustful sports of dramatic heroes and heroines like Romeo-Juliet or even ideal spouses. Lust as prevalent in this world is only a mental passion, but the lust of the transcendental world has its own form. Here lust is always goaded by the enemy (one of the six passions); whereas in the transcendental region of Krsna, the loveliness of the spiritual Body of Krsna ever drives the Lust for Krsna, which takes form as sublimated love or the desire to gratify the immaculate senses of Krsna. ... Krsna's Amorous Sports are not to be called indecency, because it is Krsna Who is the only one unrivalled Enjoyer, Embodiment of the Real Truth and the Spiritual Despot.
Prof. Suthers: I cannot fully appreciate this; please let me understand it a little more clearly.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura: Suppose there are some angles, two right angles, four right angles, etc. There is the contracted character of a corner in the acute, obtuse and right angle. But in the two right angles called the straight angle, even though called an angle, there is no cotractedness or want of straightness, as is the case with angles in general. Such is the case with the Autocrat Krsna. There is no want or contractedness or despicable character or indecency in the perfect Entity Krsna, like the perfect circle of 360 degrees, though the communities of enjoyers or renounces, championing morality or immorality, may, due to the meagerness of their intellect, wrongly regard the lustfulness of Krsna, the result of His despotism which is only His, as vulgar as like that of common men and other creatures.
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