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Everyone wants divinity to be within
the realm of human comprehension, human feasibility;
what we think is possible rationally.
That’s why people are not interested in God,
or want little or nothing to do with it.
[Inconceivable but Perceivable]
Acintya-śakti, muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ;
The God, the Kṛṣṇa we’re interested in
is bewildering even to the demigods,
can bewilder Brahmā, Indra, Śiva.
Mahā-Viṣṇu wants a glimpse of Kṛṣṇa;
wants to see the beauty of Kṛṣṇa,
how beautiful he must be.
Even other forms of Kṛṣṇa: want to see, have a glimpse.
Yaḿ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaḿ (Bs: 5.38).
He says, Śyāmasundar, Kṛṣṇa, what does he look like?
Acintya-guṇa-svarūp.
This svarūp, this form, has inconceivable qualities.
People say, “Why is Kṛṣṇa this colour?
Why is he like that?”
It’s an inconceivable colour; an inconceivable form.
But we’re given some hints, local references.
Dvārakā Kṛṣṇa is enamoured by the beauty of Vṛndāvan Kṛṣṇa,
and in the inverse.
See, these things become more meaningful
the more we become acquainted with them.
So if we understand how inconceivably beautiful
and attractive Viṣṇu is,
then this will take on increased connotation,
and meaning when we hear that
when the Vraja-gopīs are searching for Kṛṣṇa
and they think they see him hiding in a kuñj, the kuñja, because he is,
and as they think they’ve found him and they’re running towards him,
Kṛṣṇa pushes out two more arms and takes a Viṣṇu form.
And when the Vraja-gopīs encounter him and see,
from a distance it looked like Kṛṣṇa but close up it’s Viṣṇu,
it says, “rāgodayaḥ kuñcati” (Cc: Ādi, 17.281);
their hearts are … well one word is crippled,
but … they’re disappointed.
“Oh, Namo Nārāyaṇa,” they’re respectful, “have you seen Kṛṣṇa?
We’re searching for Kṛṣṇa,
and you know everything, where’s He hiding?”
And so that shows something, that Vraja-gopīs
are dismissing Viṣṇu from the object of their search.
Progress means elimination and a new acceptance.
Raghunāth Dās Goswāmī says,
“Don’t be too attentive to vidhi-mārga,
because if you are you’ll be hurled down to Vaikuṇṭha.”
Raghunāth Dās Goswāmī, the prayojan tattva ācārya,
can say such a thing.
So, Vraja-gopīs, they dismiss Viṣṇu from the object of their search.
Is He not the Absolute Truth?
Is He not Bhagavān?
Dismissed.
Not interested.
Hearts are disappointed.
Then what is it they’re looking for
that Viṣṇu cannot reciprocate?
Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s called Akhila-rasāmṛta-mūrti,
He’s the All-Accommodating, All-Reciprocating,
Rasa-mūrtimān.
So we shall resist trying to take the infinite, the Supreme Absolute Truth,
and make a tree chart, or want every little aspect of the Infinite
to fit in a little box in our puppy brain;
our skull size kingdoms that we rule over.