Texts 45-46] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Śiva
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nor do they ever beg His pardon. Thus the  rāga-mārga , or  Bhāgavata-mārga , friendship exists on a higher platform with Kṛṣṇa, namely the platform of  vipralambha  friendship. Paternal friendship, conjugal paternal service, as well as conjugal service, are visible in the Vṛndāvana  rāga-mārga  relationships.
Without serving Kṛṣṇa according to the  vidhi-mārga  regulative principles of the  Pāṇcarātrika-vidhi , unscrupulous persons want to jump immediately to the  rāga-mārga  principles. Such persons are called  sahajīyā . There are also demons who enjoy depicting Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes with the  gopīs , taking advantage of Kṛṣṇa by their licentious character. These demons who print books and write lyrics on the  rāga-mārga  principles are surely on the way to hell. Unfortunately, they lead others down with them. Devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should be very careful to avoid such demons. One should strictly follow the  vidhi-mārga  regulative principles in the worship of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, although the Lord is present in the temple as Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa includes Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa; therefore when one worships the Lord according to the regulative principles, the Lord accepts the service in the role of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. In  Nectar of Devotion  full instructions are given about the  vidhi-mārga  worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. Although there are sixty-four kinds of offenses one can commit in  vidhi-mārga  worship, in  rāga-mārga  worship there is no consideration of such offenses because the devotees on that platform are very much elevated, and there is no question of offense. But if we do not follow the regulative principles on the  vidhi-mārga  platform and keep our eyes trained to spot offenses, we will not make progress.
In his description of Kṛṣṇa's beauty, Lord Śiva uses the words  cārvāyata-catur-bāhu sujāta-rucirānanam , indicating the beautiful four-armed form of Nārāyaṇa, or Viṣṇu. Those who worship Lord Kṛṣṇa describe Him as  sujāta-rucirānanam . In the  Viṣṇu-tattva  there are hundreds and thousands and millions of forms of the Supreme Lord, but of all these forms, the form of Kṛṣṇa is the most beautiful. Thus for those who worship Kṛṣṇa, the word  sujāta-rucirānanam  is used.
The four arms of Lord Viṣṇu have different purposes. The hands holding a lotus flower and conchshell are meant for the devotees, whereas the other two hands, holding a disc and mace or club, are meant for the demons. Actually all of the Lord's arms are auspicious, whether they are holding conchshells and flowers or clubs and discs. The demons killed by Lord Viṣṇu's  cakra  disc and club are elevated to the spiritual world, just like the devotees who are protected by the hands holding the lotus flower and conchshell. However, the demons who are elevated to the spiritual world