Gh Mn. Fe
After the complete rainy season, the forest of Vrn-

22 davana was full of fruits like dates and blackberries

ripening on the trees and bushes. Lord Sri Krsna, along with

His elder brother Sri Baladeva and other cowherd boys of the

vicinity, entered the beautiful forest, accompanied by the

cows, to display transcendental pastimes with His eternal

friends.

Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears
with His personal entourage once in 4,320,000,000 years and
displays His transcendental paraphernalia, just to attract the con-
ditioned souls of the material world. Although the material world is
only a shadow of the spiritual world, the materially encaged living
entities seek spiritual happiness here, in a form perverted by
materialistic attachment. Emperic philosophers with a poor fund
of knowledge imagine a Spiritual picture that is impersonal. But
the spiritual living being, less attracted by the impersonal form of
spiritual emancipation, becomes more attracted by the material
form and becomes hopeless of spiritual emancipation.

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