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body and is held there without difficulty. But now this transcen-
dental form has taken birth from my womb. People will not be
able to believe this, and I shall become an object of ridicule.
PURPORT

As explained in Caitanya-caritamrta, loving service to the Personality
of Godhead is of two different kinds: aisvarya-pirna, full of opulence,
and aisvarya-sithila, without opulence. Real love of Godhead begins with
aisvarya-sithila, simply on the basis of pure love.

prem4aijana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti
yam Syamasundaram acintya-guna-svariipam
govindam ddi-purusam tam aham bhajami
(Brahma-samhita 5.38)

Pure devotees, whose eyes are anointed with the ointment of premd,
love, want to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Syamasundara,
Muralidhara, with a flute swaying in His two hands. This is the form
available to the inhabitants of Vrndavana, who are all in love with the
Supreme Personality of Godhead as Syamasundara, not as Lord Visnu,
Narayana, who is worshiped in Vaikuntha, where the devotees admire
His opulence. Although Devaki is not on the Vrndavana platform, she is
near the Vrndavana platform. On the Vrndavana platform the mother of
Krsna is mother Yasoda, and on the Mathura and Dvaraka platform the
mother of Krsna is Devaki. In Mathura and Dvaraka the love for the
Lord is mixed with appreciation of His opulence, but in Vrndavana the
opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not exhibited.

There are five stages of loving service to the Supreme Personality of
Godhead — Santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya. Devaki is on
the platform of vdtsalya. She wanted to deal with her eternal son, Krsna,
in that stage of love, and therefore she wanted the Supreme Personality
of Godhead to withdraw His opulent form of Visnu. Srila Viévanatha
Cakravarti Thakura illuminates this fact very clearly in his explanation
of this verse.

Bhakti, bhagavan and bhakta do not belong to the material world.
This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (14.26):
