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Varaha-dvadasi, Lord Varaha's Appearance Day - Krishna's Incarnations Transcend Material Karma, Spiritual Enjoyment Surpasses Material Imitation

📅 January 31, 1977 📍 Bhubaneswar ⏱ 21 min
Material enjoyment is imitation; spiritual enjoyment with Krishna offers eternal varieties of love without suffering.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: Today, Varāha-dvādaśī, appearance of Kṛṣṇa's taking the incarnation of Varāha, boar. Keśava dhṛta-śūkara-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare. [Śrī Daśāvatāra-stotram] So, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu kṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yo govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.39] Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, ādi-puruṣa, the original person, He is taking various forms. Rāmādi-murtiṣu specially.

Three Rāma: Paraśurāma, Balarāma and Daśarathi Rāma. So this Rāma means enjoyment. So Kṛṣṇa's enjoyment... It does not mean—Kṛṣṇa has appeared as the boar—it does not mean He is suffering.

Everything is ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis [Bs 5.37]. Sometimes a big man becomes a horse. It is... There is a very nice interesting story that the big Prime Minister Gladstone, English, English Prime Minister, Gladstone? Devotee: Yeah.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So somebody came to see him for an interview. So the servant informed the visitor that "The Prime Minister is now busy, you have to wait." So he was waiting. He was big man.

So one hour passed, so he became inquisitive. So with little opening of the door, he wanted to see the "How this man is engaged? I am waiting for one hour." So he saw that the Prime Minister has become a horse, taking his grandchild on the back, and he's playing like a horse. And the important visitor is waiting for one hour.

So this is enjoyment. The Prime Minister is not the horse, but he is enjoying taking his grandchild on the back, and he was playing like horse and the grandchild was, "Hut! Hut! Hut!

Hut!" This was his engagement. So similarly, because he has become the horse of his grandchild, he is not horse, he is enjoying. That is enjoyment. Similarly, when keśava dhṛta-śūkara-rūpa or kesava dhṛta-varāha-rūpa does not mean that He is varāha or He is crocodile or He is something like...

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