The Beauty of Krishna 93

transcendental convulsion before Krishna’s beauty sometimes continues
without any treatment, just as with ordinary convulsions a physician does
not allow one to drink water for relief.

The devotee increasingly feels the absence of Krishna, because without Him
one cannot drink the nectar of His beauty. When there is the transcendental
sound of Krishna’s flute, the devotee’s anxiety to hear that flute penetrates
the covering of this material world and enters into the Spiritual Sky, and the
transcendental sound of the flute enters into the ears of the followers of the
Gopis. The sound of Krishna’s flute always resides within the ear of the Gopis,
and increases their ecstasy. At the time when it is heard no other sound can
enter into the ear, and in their family activities they are not able to reply
properly because all these beautiful sounds are vibrating.

Thus Lord Chaitanya explained the transcendental constitution of Krishna,
His expansions, His bodily luster, and everything connected with Him. In
short, Lord Chaitanya explained Krishna as He is. And, Krishna being the
essence of everything, He began to explain the process by which one can
approach Krishna. He said that devotional service to Krishna is the only process.
This is the verdict of all Vedic literature. The sages have declared as follows:
“If somebody inquires into the Vedic literature as to what is the process of
transcendental realization, or if somebody consults the Puranas (which are
considered the sister literature)—in all of them the conclusion is that the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the Object of worship.”

Krishna is the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and
He is situated in His internal potency, which is known as Swarupshakti or Atma-
shakti, as described in the Bhagavad Gita. He expands Himself in various mul-
tiple Forms. Some of them are known as Personal Forms, and some of them
are known as separated Forms. Thus He is enjoying in all the spiritual planets
as well as in the material Universes.

The expansions of His separated Forms are called living entities, and they
are classified according to the energies of the Lord. Such living entities are
divided into two classes: one is eternally liberated, and the other is cternally
conditioned. Eternally liberated living entities never come into contact with
the material Nature, and they do not have any experience of material life.
They are eternally engaged in Krishna Consciousness, or devotional service
to the Lord, and they are counted as associates of Krishna. Their pleasure, the
only enjoyment of their life, is derived by rendering transcendental loving
service to Krishna.

Those who are eternally conditioned, on the other hand, are ever divorced
