Reaching Life’s Perfection 285

Lord Caitanya, however, speaks of favorably engaging all the senses in
the service of Krsna in pure devotional life. One should favorably engage
one’s senses and should do whatever Krsna wants. Yet even if one
engages one’s senses against the will of Krsna but still thinks of Krsna,
that is also advantageous. The demon Pitand, for example, thought of
killing Krsna. Just as the occupation of godly persons is to serve God, so
the demons and atheists are always prepared to kill God. Pitana thought,
“T shall kill Krsna. He is only a child.”’ This is another mistake of the
demonic. They think Krsna, or God, to be an ordinary child or man. So
in this way Pitand was thinking: ‘‘Let me smear my breast with poison,
and when the child goes to suck my milk, He will die.’’ As we study this,
we see that she approached Krsna as His enemy, and yet He accepted her
as a friend because He is so merciful. He did not take the demonic por-
tion of her mentality, but He accepted her. Every living entity is condi-
tioned, but Krsna is not. A doctor or psychiatrist treats madmen, but he
does not become mad. Sometimes a patient may become angry with him
or call him ill names, but the doctor is sober and simply treats him.
Similarly, if someone regards Krsna as his enemy, Krsna does not be-
come his enemy.

Piitand came to poison Krsna, but He took it otherwise. He thought, ‘‘I
have sucked her breast milk. Therefore she has become My mother.”’
Krsna treated her as His mother, and therefore she became liberated to
the same position as Krsna’s real mother, YaSoda. The conclusion is that
the highest perfection is to establish a favorable relationship with Krsna,
but even if one engages himself unfavorably, Krsna is so merciful that
He at least gives one salvation. All the enemies killed by Krsna were
immediately liberated.

Two classes of men may merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti: he
who is intentionally aspiring to merge into the impersonal brahmajyoti
may enter, and those who are enemies of Krsna and are killed by Him
may also do so. Therefore, the devotee concludes, Why should I accept a
condition which is offered even to God’s enemies?

Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends pure devotional service. There
should be no desire to fulfill one’s own material desires, there should be
no attempt to understand Krsna by experimental philosophy, and there
should be no fruitive activities to derive material benefits from Krsna.
The only desire should be to serve Him favorably, as He desires. If Krsna
wants something, then we should do it. Suppose I were to ask a disciple,
‘*My dear student, please give me a glass of water.”’ It is then his duty to
give mea glass of water. If he thinks, ‘‘Prabhupada wants a glass of water,
