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spiritual activity is always bright and wonderful. Pure love on the transcen-
dental platform is the symbol of purity—this means without any material
affection, or completely spiritual. Affection for matter is perishable, therefore
the inebriety of sex is there in the material world, but there is no such inebriety
in the Spiritual World. Hindrances in the performance of sense satisfaction
are the cause of material distress, and that is not exactly comparable with spiri-
tual separation. In spiritual separation there is no inebriety or ineffectiveness
as with matter.

Lord Chaitanya admitted that this is the highest position of transcendental
loving reciprocation, and He said to Ramananda Roy, “By your grace only
I have been able to understand such a high transcendental position. This trans-
cendental position cannot be achieved without the performance of transcenden-
tal activities; so would you kindly explain to Me how I can raise Myself to
this platform?”

Ramananda replied, “It is similarly difficult for me to make You understand,
but so far as Iam concerned, I can speak what You would like me to say before
You. For no one can escape Your Supreme Will. There is nobody in the world
who can surpass Your Supreme Will, and although I appear to be speaking,
I am not actually the speaker—You are speaking. Therefore, You are both
the speaker and the audience. Let me speak as You will me to speak, about the
performance required to achieve this highest transcendental position.” Rama-
nanda Roy then began:

The transcendental activities of Radha and Krishna are very confidential.
They are not to be understood in the emotional relationship of master and
servant, friend and friend, or parent and son to the Supreme Lord. This con-
fidential subject matter can be understood in the association of the damsels
of Vraja, because such confidential activities have arisen from the feelings and
emotions of those damsels. Without the association of Vraja, no one can nourish
or cherish such transcendental understanding. In other words, these confidential
Pastimes of Radha and Krishna have expanded through the mercy of the
damsels—and without their mercy we cannot understand. One has to adopt
this life, to follow in the footsteps of the damsels of Vraja, and then one can
understand.

When one is actually situated in that understanding, he is eligible to enter
into the confidential Pastimes of Radha and Krishna. There is no other alterna-
tive way to understand this confidential part of the Pastimes of Radha and
Krishna. This is confirmed in the Govinda Lilamrita, in a verse which reads
as follows: “The emotional exchanges of Radha and Krishna, although mani-
