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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
relationship. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu takes the part of Radharani and tries to love Krishna as Radharani loved Him. Krishna could not understand, “How does Radharani give Me such pleasure?” So in order to study Radharani, Krishna lived Her role and tried to understand Himself. This is the secret of Lord Chaitanya’s incarnation. That is explained in the next verse.
This verse says, “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Who is absorbed in the modes of Radharani’s thought.” He is Krishna, but He has taken the mode of Radharani to show how to love Krishna. And what is Radha Krishna? Radha Krishna is the exchange of love. And what is that love? This is not ordinary love. Krishna has immense potencies, of which three are principal: internal, external, and marginal potency. In the internal potency there are three divisions:  Sambit ,  Alahadini  and  Sandhini .
The Alahadini potency is the pleasure potency. We must always know that we also have this pleasure-seeking potency. We are all trying to have pleasure; this is the nature of the living entity. We are now trying to enjoy our pleasure potency in this material condition, with this body, by bodily contact. But do you think that Krishna, Who is always Spiritual, will also seek pleasure on this material plane? What nonsense this is! Krishna describes this place as non-permanent and full of miseries. Do you think Krishna is going to seek pleasure in this material form? How is it possible? He is the Supersoul, He is the Supreme Spirit; how can He seek pleasure in matter?
Therefore, to learn how Krishna’s pleasure can be obtained, you have to study the first Nine Cantos of  Srimad Bhagwatam . In the Tenth Canto, Krishna’s pleasure potency is displayed as He plays with Radharani, and as He plays with the damsels of Vraja. Unfortunately, people of less intelligence turn at once to the pleasure potency sports of Krishna in the  Dasama Skanda , the Tenth Canto. These pictures of Krishna embracing Radharani, or of the  Rasa  Dance, are unfortunately not understood by ordinary men, because they do not understand Krishna. They will falsely understand that Krishna is like us, and just as we want to embrace a young girl, so He embraces the Gopis. These people write books because they think that this is a kind of religion where we can indulge in sex and become religionists. This is called  Prakrita Sahajia —materialistic lust.
One should understand what Radha Krishna is. Radha and Krishna display the pleasure potency of the internal energy of Krishna. That pleasure potency of Krishna’s internal energy is a most difficult subject matter, unless one understands what Krishna is. Krishna cannot see any pleasure in this material world. But He has got that pleasure potency. Because we are part and parcel