Radha-Madhava's Eternal Pastimes – Pleasure Potency of Krishna

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Sunday Feast Lecture — May 21, 1972, Los Angeles 720521LE-LOS ANGELES [58:31 Minutes] Lecture_720521LE-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [aside:] You'll play mṛdaṅga, I'll sing. [sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvanī] Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. [devotees offer obeisances] [08:31] Prabhupāda: So this is the true picture of God: jaya rādhā-mādhava. Jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī. He is simply enjoying, Rādhā-Mādhava.

You have seen the picture, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So eternally engaged in enjoyment, in the association of the gopīs. Gopī-jana-vallabha. And His only business is how to please the gopīs. Just like here, in this material world, the young boy who loves a young girl, he tries to please the girl always.

This is natural, because originally, the same thing is there in God. It is a pleasure. It is a pleasure for the male to please the female counterpart. That is originally created. Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir ahlādinī-śaktiḥ.

These Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa love affairs is the originally there. Rādhārāṇī, the female counterpart, is the manifestation of ahlādinī-śakti, pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He has got many potencies. Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. God, God means with His potencies. Just like ordinarily, we are part and parcel of God, a minute particle; still, we have got so many potencies. Every man, every living entity... Not only man, the animals also, they have got various potencies, creative energy.

So you just imagine how much creative energies and potencies are there in God. This is the understanding. If I am a little portion, part and parcel of God, I have got so much potencies... "I" means the human being. Or even animal.

There are many animals, they have got... Just like a bird. He can fly in the sky without any mechanical arrangement. He has got the potency.

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