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nor do they ever beg His pardon. Thus the raga-marga, or Bhagavata-marga,
friendship exists on a higher platform with Krsna, namely the platform of
vipralambha friendship. Paternal friendship, conjugal paternal service, as
well as conjugal service, are visible in the Vrndavana raga-marga relation-
ships.

Without serving Krsna according to the vidhi-marga regulative principles
of the Paficaratrika-vidhi, unscrupulous persons want to jump immediately
to the raga-marga principles. Such persons are called sahajiya. There are
also demons who enjoy depicting Krsna and His pastimes with the gopis,
taking advantage of Krsna by their licentious character. These demons who
print books and write lyrics on the raga-marga principles are surely on the
way to hell. Unfortunately, they lead others down with them. Devotees in
Krsna consciousness should be very careful to avoid such demons. One
should strictly follow the vidhi-marga regulative principles in the worship
of Laksmi-Narayana, although the Lord is present in the temple as Radha-
Krsna. Radha-Krsna includes Laksmi-Narayana; therefore when one wor-
ships the Lord according to the regulative principles, the Lord accepts the
service in the role of Lakgmi-Narayana. In Nectar of Devotion full instruc-
tions are given about the vidhi-marga worship of Radha-Krsna or Laksmi-
Narayana. Although there are sixty-four kinds of offenses one can commit
in vidhi-marga worship, in raga-marga worship there is no consideration of
such offenses because the devotees on that platform are very much ele-
vated, and there is no question of offense. But if we do not follow the
regulative principles on the vidhi-marga platform and keep our eyes trained
to spot offenses, we will not make progress. ‘

In his description of Krgna’s beauty, Lord Siva uses the words carv-
ayata-catur-bahu sujata-rucirananam, indicating the beautiful four-armed
form of Narayana, or Visnu. Those who worship Lord Krsna describe Him
as sujata-rucirananam. In the Visnu-tattva there are hundreds and thousands
and millions of forms of the Supreme Lord, but of all these forms, the
form of Krsna is the most beautiful. Thus for those who worship Krsna,
the word sujata-rucirananam is used.

The four arms of Lord Visnu have different purposes. The hands
holding a lotus flower and conchshell are meant for the devotees, whereas
the other two hands, holding a disc and mace or club, are meant for the
demons. Actually all of the Lord’s arms are auspicious, whether they are
holding conchshells and flowers or clubs and discs. The demons killed by
Lord Visnu’s cakra disc and club are elevated to the spiritual world, just like
the devotees who are protected by the hands holding the lotus flower and
conchshell. However, the demons who are elevated to the spiritual world
