Adi-lila, Chapter 5 385
PURPORT

By the grace of the Lord His dhdmas and He Himself can all be present simulta-
neously, without losing their original importance. Only when one fully develops in
affection and love of Godhead can one see those dhdmas in their original appearance.

Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, a great dcdrya in the preceptorial line of Lord Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has said for our benefit that one can perfectly see the dhamas
only when one completely gives up the mentality of lording it over material nature.
One’s spiritual vision develops proportionately to one’s giving up the debased
mentality of unnecessarily enjoying matter. A diseased person who has become
diseased because of a certain bad habit must be ready to follow the advice of the
physician, and as a natural sequence he must attempt to give up the cause of the
disease. The patient cannot indulge in the bad habit and at the same time expect
to be cured by the physician. Modern material civilization, however, is maintaining
a diseased atmosphere. The living being is a spiritual spark, as spiritual as the Lord
Himself. The only difference is that the Lord is great and the living being is small.
Qualitatively they are one, but quantitatively they are different. Therefore, since
the living being is spiritual in constitution, he can be happy only in the spiritual
sky, where there are unlimited spiritual spheres called Vaikunthas. A spiritual
being conditioned by a material body must therefore try to get rid of his disease
instead of developing the cause of the disease.

Foolish persons engrossed in their material assets are unnecessarily proud of being
leaders of the people, but they ignore the spiritual value of man. Such illusioned
leaders make plans covering any number of years, but they can hardly make
humanity happy in a state conditioned by threefold miseries inflicted by material
nature. One cannot control the laws of nature by any amount of struggling. One
must at last be subject to death, nature’s ultimate law. Death, birth, old age and
illness are symptoms of the diseased condition of the living being. The highest aim
of human life should therefore be to get free from these miseries and go back home,
back to Godhead.

TEXT 21
CLACATH CAT STA TAA-LIBTA |
cata-cotAce tel sows faeti7 vaso
prema-netre dekhe tGra svarupa-prakdasa
gopa-gopi-sange yanha krsnera vilasa
SYNONYMS

prema-netre—with the eyes of love of Godhead; dekhe—one sees; tdra—its;
sva-riipa-prakasa—manifestation of identity; goapa—cowherd boys; gopi-safnge—with
the cowherd damsels; yanha— where; krsnera vildsa—the pastimes of Lord Krsna.

TRANSLATION

But with the eyes of love of Godhead one can see its real identity as the place

where Lord Krsna performs His pastimes with the cowherd boys and cowherd girls.
