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5/ Talks Between Krsna and Rukmini

Once upon a time, Lord Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the
bestower of all knowledge to all living entities from Brahma to the
insignificant ant, was sitting in the bedroom of Rukmini, who was
engaged in the service of the Lord along with her assistant maidservants.
Krsna was sitting on the bedstead of Rukmini, and the maidservants were
engaged in fanning Him with camaras (yak-tail fly-whisks).

Lord Krsna’s dealings with Rukmini as a perfect husband is a perfect
manifestation of the supreme perfection of the Personality of Godhead.
There are many philosophers who propound a concept of the Absolute
Truth in which God cannot do this or that. They deny the incarnation of
God, or the Supreme Absolute Truth in human form. But actually, the
fact is different: God cannot be subjected to our imperfect sensual
activities. He is the all-powerful, omnipresent Personality of Godhead, and
by His supreme will, He can not only create, maintain and annihilate the
whole cosmic manifestation, but He can also descend as an ordinary human
being in order to execute the highest mission. As stated in the Bhagavad-
gita, whenever there are discrepancies in the discharge of human occupa-
tional duties, He descends. He is not forced to appear by any external
agency, but descends by His own internal potency in order to reestablish
the standard functions of human activities as well as to simultaneously
annihilate the disturbing elements in the progressive march of human
civilization. In accordance with this principle of the transcendental pastimes
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He descended in His eternal form
of Sri Krsna in the dynasty of the Yadus.

The palace of Rukmini was wonderfully finished. There were many
canopies hanging on the ceiling with laces bedecked with pearl garlands,
and the whole palace was illuminated by the effulgence of valuable jewels.
There were many flower orchards of baela and cameli, which are con-

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