Approaching Krsna With Love
“This is the formula—we should not try to satisfy our senses separately but
should try to satisfy Krsna’s senses. Then naturally we will become satisfied. A
Krsna conscious person is always trying to give satisfaction to Krsna....”

When Krsna was on this earth, all the residents of Vrndavana loved
Him. Indeed, they knew nothing but Krsna. They did not know whether
Krsna is God or not God, nor were they disturbed by such thoughts as,
‘*T shall love Krsna if He is God.”’ Their attitude was one of pure love,
and they thought, ‘‘He may or may not be God—it doesn’t matter. We
love Krsna, that’s all.” This then is the platform of real, unalloyed love.
When one thinks, ‘‘If Krsna is God, I shall love Him,”’ it should be
known that this is not the platform of pure love but of conditional love.
While on earth, Krsna exhibited extraordinary powers, and the vraja-
vasis, the residents of Vrndavana, often thought, ‘‘Oh, Krsna is such a
wonderful child. Maybe He is some demigod.’’ They thought in this way
because people were generally under the impression that the demigods
were all-powerful. Within the material world the demigods are powerful,
but people are not aware that Krsna is above all of them. The highest of
the demigods, Brahma, gave his opinion of this matter in the verse
iSvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-adnanda-vigrahah: ‘‘Krsna is the supreme

_ controller, and His body is full of knowledge, bliss, and eternality.’’ Little
did the residents of Vrndavana know of Krsna’s power as the ultimate
controller and master of all the demigods. What is noteworthy is that
their love for Him was not subject to such considerations.

As the residents of Vrndavana loved Krsna unconditionally, similarly
Krsna loved them unconditionally. Vraja-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhari.
When the inhabitants of Vrndavana stopped performing sacrifices to
Lord Indra, the chief demigod of the heavens, they placed themselves in
a very dangerous position. Indra became very angry and sent powerful

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