8 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

relationship. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu takes the part of Radharani and tries
to love Krishna as Radharani loved Him. Krishna could not understand,
“How does Radharani give Me such pleasure?” So in order to study Rad-
harani, Krishna lived Her role and tried to understand Himself. This is the
secret of Lord Chaitanya’s incarnation. That is explained in the next verse.

This verse says, “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord,
Who is absorbed in the modes of Radharani’s thought.” He is Krishna, but
He has taken the mode of Radharani to show how to love Krishna. And what
is Radha Krishna? Radha Krishna is the exchange of love. And what is that
love? This is not ordinary love. Krishna has immense potencies, of which
three are principal: internal, external, and marginal potency. In the internal
potency there are three divisions: Sambit, Alahadini and Sandhini.

The Alahadini potency is the pleasure potency. We must always know
that we also have this pleasure-seeking potency. We are all trying to have
pleasure; this is the nature of the living entity. We are now trying to enjoy
our pleasure potency in this material condition, with this body, by bodily
contact. But do you think that Krishna, Who is always Spiritual, will also
seek pleasure on this material plane? What nonsense this is! Krishna describes
this place as non-permanent and full of miseries. Do you think Krishna is
going to seek pleasure in this material form? How is it possible? He is the
Supersoul, He is the Supreme Spirit; how can He seek pleasure in matter?

Therefore, to learn how Krishna’s pleasure can be obtained, you have to
study the first Nine Cantos of Srimad Bhagwatam. In the Tenth Canto, Krishna’s
pleasure potency is displayed as He plays with Radharani, and as He plays
with the damsels of Vraja. Unfortunately, people of less intelligence turn
at once to the pleasure potency sports of Krishna in the Dasama Skanda, the
Tenth Canto. These pictures of Krishna embracing Radharani, or of the
Rasa Dance, are unfortunately not understood by ordinary men, because they
do not understand Krishna. They will falsely understand that Krishna is like
us, and just as we want to embrace a young girl, so He embraces the Gopis.
These people write books because they think that this is a kind of religion
where we can indulge in sex and become religionists. This is called Prakrita
Sahajia—materialistic lust.

One should understand what Radha Krishna is. Radha and Krishna display
the pleasure potency of the internal energy of Krishna. That pleasure potency
of Krishna’s internal energy is a most difficult subject matter, unless one
understands what Krishna is. Krishna cannot see any pleasure in this material
world. But He has got that pleasure potency. Because we are part and parcel
