104 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 3

give a chance to the conditioned souls to enter the kingdom of God, and
there is an adequate arrangement for their maintenance by the nature of
the Lord.

Therefore, although there may be a great increase in population on the
surface of the earth, if the people are exactly in line with God conscious-
ness and are not miscreants, such a burden on the earth is a source of
pleasure for her. There are two kinds of burdens. There is the burden of
the beast and the burden of love. The burden of the beast is unbearable,
but the burden of love is a source of pleasure. Sri Viévanatha Cakravarti
describes the burden of love very practically. He says that the burden of
the husband on the young wife, the burden of the child on the lap of the
mother, and the burden of wealth on the businessman, although actually
burdens from the viewpoint of heaviness, are sources of pleasure, and in
the absence of such burdensome objects, one may feel the burden of sepa-
ration, which is heavier to bear than the actual burden of love. When Lord
Krsna referred to the burden of the Yadu dynasty on the earth, He referred
to something different than the burden of the beast. The large numbers of
family members born of Lord Krsnacounted to some millions and were cer-
tainly a great increase in the population of the earth, but because all of
them were expansions of the Lord Himself by His transcendental plenary
expansions, they were a source of great pleasure for the earth. When the
Lord referred to them in connection with the burden on the earth, He had
in mind their imminent disappearance from the earth. All the members of
the family of Lord Krsna were incarnations of different demigods, and
they were to disappear from the surface of the earth along with the Lord.
When He referred to the unbearable heaviness on the earth in connectior
with the Yadu dynasty, He was referring to the burden of their separation
Srila Jiva Gosvami confirms this inference.

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mitho yadaisam bhavita vivado
madhv-amadatamra-vilocananam
naisam vadhopaya iyan ato ‘nyo
mayy udyate ’ntardadhate svayam sma
