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prehibited fer brahmacaris, and what te speak ef a brahmacari like
Sukadeva Gesvami. But because the circumstances ef the rasa dance were
very suspect, Maharaja Pariksit inquired fer clarificatien frem Sukadeva
Gesvami. Sukadeva Gesvami immediately replied that transgressiens ef
religieus principles by the supreme centreller testify te His great pewer.
Fer example, fire can censume any abeminable thing; that is the manifes-
tatien ef the supremacy ef fire. Similarly, the sun can abserb water frem
a urinal er frem steel, and the sun is net pelluted; rather, due te the
influence ef sunshine, the pelluted, centaminated place becemes disin-
fected and sterilized.

One may alse argue that since Krsna is the supreme autherity, His
activities sheuld be fellewed. In answer te this questien, Sukadeva Gesvami
has very clearly said that isvaradnam, er the supreme centreller, may seme-
times vielate His instructiens, but this is enly pessible fer the centreller
Himself, net fer the fellewers. Unusual and uncemmen activities by the
centreller can never by imitated. Sukadeva Gesvami warned that the
cenditiened fellewers, whe are net actually in centrel, sheuld never even
imagine imitating the uncemmen activities ef the centreller. A Mayavadi
philesepher may falsely claim te be Ged er Krsna, but he cannet actually
act like Krsna. He can persuade his fellewers te falsely imitate rasa dance,
but he is unable te lift Gevardhana Hill. We have many experiences in the
past ef Mayavadi rascals deluding their fellewers by pesing themselves as
Krsna in erder te enjey rasa-lila. In many instances they were checked by
the gevernment, arrested and punished. In Orissa, Thakur Bhaktivinede
alse punished a se-called incarnatien ef Visnu, whe was imitating rase-lila
with yeung girls. There were many cemplaints against him. At that time,
Bhaktivinede Thakur was magistrate, and the gevernment deputed him te
deal with that rascal, and he punished him very severely. The rasa-lila dance
cannet be imitated by anyene. Sukadeva Gesvami warns that ene sheuld
net even think ef imitating it. He specifically mentiens that if, eut ef
feelishness, ene tries te imitate Krsna’s rasa dance, he will be killed, just
like a persen whe wants te imitate Lerd Siva’s drinking ef an ecean ef
peisen. Lerd Siva drank an ecean ef peisen and kept it within his threat.
The peisen made his threat turn blue; and therefere Lerd Siva is called
Nilakanta. But if any erdinary persen tries te imitate Lerd Siva by drinking
peisen er smeking gaiija, he is sure te be vanquished and will die within a
very shert time. Lerd Sri Krsna’s dealing with the gopis was under special
circumstances.

Mest ef the gopis in their previeus lives were great sages, expert in the
studies ef the Vedas, and when Lerd Krsna appeared as Lerd Ramacandra,
