294 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION

consciousness movement can enable everyone to go to Krsnaloka and
become Krsna’s associate as a friend, servant, father, or mother. Krsna is
agreeable to take any of these positions in relation to His devotee. How
He does so is all described in our book Teachings of Lord Caitanya. To
realize our relationship with Krsna, we have but to follow in the footsteps
of Lord Caitanya and His chief associates, the six Goswamis—Sri Rupa,
Sanatana, Sri Jiva, Gopala, Raghunatha dasa, and Raghunatha Bhatta.
These Goswamis were always engaged in chanting Hare Krsna and danc-
ing in ecstasy. They taught that when one is merged in krsna-kirtana, or
the chanting of the holy names of Krsna, he merges into the ocean of
love of Krsna. As soon as the sound of Krsna’s name is vibrated, one can
immediately merge into the ocean of love. That is the sign of pure devo-
tion. Thus at kirtanas the six Goswamis would merge immediately into
the ocean of love of Godhead.

The six Goswamis were dear not only to the other devotees of Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu but to the nondevotees as well. A pure devotee’s
position is that he has no enemy because he is not envious. A pure devo-
tee is always open to everyone, and he does not discriminate that this
person can be allowed to chant Hare Krsna and that person should not be
allowed. On the material platform, which is a platform of dualism, there
are differences between high and low, man and woman, and this or that,
but on the spiritual platform there are no such distinctions. The pure
devotee, seeing everything with an equal mind, is therefore nonenvious.
Because he is nonenvious, he is worshipable. Indeed, it may even be said
that a person is worshipable simply if he is nonenvious, for it is only
possible to be nonenvious on the spiritual platform. This is also the ver-
dict of the Bhagavad-gita [5.18-19]:

vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini

Suni caiva Svapake ca
panditah sama-darsinah

ihaiva tair jitah sargo
yesam samye sthitam manah
nirdosam hi samam brahma
tasmad brahmani te sthitah

‘‘The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a
learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.
