304 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama,
Hare Hare.

The transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Krsna are so powerful that simply by hearing, reading and memorizing this
book Krsna, one is sure to be transferred to the spiritual world, which is
ordinarily very difficult to achieve. The description of the pastimes of
Lord Krsna is so attractive that automatically it gives us an impetus to
study repeatedly, and the more we study the pastimes of the Lord, the
more we become attached to Him. This very attachment to Krsna makes
one eligible to be transferred to His abode, Goloka Vrndavana. As we have
learned from the previous chapter, to cross over the material world is to
cross over the stringent laws of material nature. The stringent laws of
material nature cannot check the progress of one who is attracted by the
spiritual nature. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Him-
self: although the stringent laws of material nature are very difficult to
overcome, if anyone surrenders unto the Lord, he can very easily cross
over nescience. There is, however, no influence of material nature in the
spiritual world. As we have learned from the Second Canto of Srimad-
Bhagavatam, the ruling power of the demigods and the influence of
material nature are conspicuous by their absence in the spiritual world.

Srila Sukadeva Gosvami has therefore advised Maharaja Pariksit in the
beginning of the Second Canto that every conditioned soul should engage
himself in hearing and chanting the transcendental pastimes of the Lord.
Srila Sukadeva Gosvami also informed King Pariksit that previously many
other kings and emperors went to the jungle to prosecute severe austerities
and penances in order to go back home, back to Godhead. In India, it is
still a practice that many advanced transcendentalists give up their family
lives and go to Vrndavana to live there alone and completely engage in
hearing and chanting of the holy pastimes of the Lord. This system
is recommended in the Srimad-Bhdgavatam, and the six Gosvamis of
Vrndavana followed it, but at the present moment many karmis and
pseudo-devotees have overcrowded the holy place of Vrndavana just to
imitate this process recommended by Sukadeva Gosvami. It is said that
many kings and emperors formerly went to the forest for this purpose, but
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Gosvami Maharaja does not recom-
mend that one take up this solitary life in Vrndavana prematurely.

One who goes prematurely to Vrndavana to live in pursuance of the
instructions of Sukadeva Gosvami again falls a victim of mayd, even while
residing in Vrndavana. To check such unauthorized residence in Vrndavana,
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur has sung a nice song in this
