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year reading some book and trying to enjoy himself? We cannot In the material world, the highest pleasure is found in sex.
remain alone forever. Eventually we will leave that room and look That is but a perverted reflection of the pleasure experienced with
for some association. It is our nature to want some recreation with Krsna in the spiritual world. Unless there is sex present in the
others. The impersonalists, dissatisfied with the loneliness of their Spiritual world, it cannot be reflected here. However, we should
position in the impersonal effulgence of the Lord, therefore return understand that here the reflection is perverted. Actual life is
again to this material world. This is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam there in Krsna. Krsna is full of pleasure, and if we train ourselves
(10.2.32): , to serve Him in Krsna consciousness, it will be possible at the
time of death to transfer ourselves to the spiritual world and enter
ye ‘nye ’ravindaksa vimukta-maninas into Krsnaloka, Krsna’s planet, and enjoy ourselves in the associa-
tvayy asta-bhavad avisuddha-buddhayah tion of Krsna, the reservoir of all pleasure.
aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah Krsna’s planet is described in Brahma-samhita (5.29) in this
patanty adho ‘nadrta-yusmad-anghrayah way:
“O lotus-eyed Lord, although nondevotees who accept severe cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-
austerities and penances to achieve the highest position may think laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam
themselves liberated, their intelligence is impure. They fall down laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam
from their position of imagined superiority because they have no govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
regard for Your lotus feet.”

The impersonalists are like astronauts in search of a planet. If “I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who
they cannot rest in some planet, they have to return to earth. It is is tending the surabhi cows that fulfill all desires, who is sur- —
herein stated in Srimad-Bhdgavatam (anddrta-yusmad-anghrayah) rounded by millions of purpose (wish-fulfilling) trees and abodes
that the impersonalist must return to the material world because built with spiritual gems, and who is always served with great

| he has neglected to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devo- reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses
tion. As long as we are on this earth, we should practice to love of fortune.” In this way Krsnaloka is described. There the houses
| and serve Krsna, the Supreme Lord; then we can enter His spiri- are made of touchstone (cintdmani). If a small particle of touch-
| tual planet. If we are not trained up in this way, we can enter the stone touches an iron rod, that rod will immediately turn to
i brahmajyoti as an impersonalist, but there is every risk that we will gold. Of course, in this material world we have no experience with
again fall down into material existence. Out of loneliness, we will such a thing as touchstone, but according to Brahma-samhitd all
search out some association and therefore return to the material the abodes in Krsnaloka are composed of touchstone. Similarly,
world. What we actually want is the eternal association of the the trees there are called desire trees (kalpa-vrksa) because one
Supreme Lord. This is our constitutional position of eternality, can get whatever he desires from them. Here we can get only
| knowledge, and pleasure. If we are alone, if we do not associate mangoes from a mango tree, but in Krsnaloka we can get what-
with the Supreme Lord, that pleasure is lacking. For want of ever we desire from any tree because the trees are kalpa-vrksa.
pleasure, we feel uncomfortable. For want of pleasure, we will ac- This is just a partial description of Krsnaloka, Krsna’s eternal
cept any kind of association, any kind of pleasure. Therefore, out abode in the spiritual sky.
of a kind of desperation, we will say, ‘‘All right, then let me have The conclusion, therefore, is not to try to elevate ourselves to
material pleasure again.” That is the risk the impersonalists take. any material planet, because the same miserable conditions of
