Delivering the Wives of the Brahmanas 161

understand their minds; they had come to Him despite all the protests of
their relatives, fathers, husbands, brothers, and all the duties of household
affairs. They came just to see Him who was their life and soul. They were
actually following Krsna’s instruction in the Bhagavad-gita: one should
surrender to Him, giving up all varieties of occupational and religious
duties. The wives of the brahmanas actually carried out the instruction of
the Bhagavad-gita in total. He therefore began to speak to them, smiling
very magnificently. It should be noted in this connection that when Krsna
entered into the wives’ hearts and when they embraced Him and felt the
transcendental bliss of being merged with Him, the Supreme Lord Krsna
did not lose His identity, nor did the individual wives lose theirs. The
individuality of both the Lord and the wives remained, yet they felt
oneness in existence. When a lover submits to his lover without any pinch
of personal consideration, that is called oneness. Lord Caitanya has taught
us this feeling of oneness in His Siksdstaka: Krsma may act freely, doing
whatever He likes, but the devotee should always be in oneness or in
agreement with His desires. That oneness was exhibited by the wives of the
brahmanas in their love for Krsna.

Krsna welcomed them with the following words: ““My dear wives of the
brahmanas, you are all very fortunate and welcomed here. Please let Me
know what I can do for you. Your coming here, neglecting all the
restrictions and hindrances of relatives, fathers, brothers and husbands, in
order to see Me, is completely befitting. One who does this actually knows
his self interest, because rendering transcendental loving service unto Me,
without motive or restriction, is actually auspicious for the living entities.”

Lord Krsna here cenfirms that the highest perfectional stage of the con-
ditional soul is surrender to Him. One must sive up all other responsibili-
ties. This complete surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
the most auspicious path for the conditioned soul because the Supreme
Lord is the supreme objective of love. Everyone is loving Krsna ultimately,
but realization is according to the advancement of his knowledge. One
comes to understand that his self is the spirit soul, and the spirit soul is
nothing but a part and parcel of the Supreme Lord; therefore the Supreme
Lord is the ultimate goal of love, and thus one should surrender unto Him.
This surrender is considered auspicious for the conditioned soul. Our life,
property, home, wife, children, house, country, society and all parapher-
nalia which are very dear to us are expansions of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. He is the central object of love because He gives us all bliss,
expanding Himsclf in so many ways according to our different situations,
namely bodily, mental or spiritual.
