92 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI

A devotee is always prepared to render service to the Lord (dasyam
gatandam para-daivatena) , but for those who are under the spell of illusory
energy, He is an ordinary boy (mdydsritandm nara-darakena). Ye yatha
mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham: Krsna deals with different
living entities according to their conceptions. For those who regard Krsna
as an ordinary human being, Krsna will deal like an ordinary human
being, whereas devotees who accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead will enjoy the association of the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Of course, the object of the impersonalist is the brahmajyoti, the
impersonal effulgence of the Supreme, but Krsna is the source of that
effulgence. Therefore Krsna is everything (brahmeti paramatmeti bhaga-
van iti Sabdyate).

Yet the cowherd boys are able to play with that same Krsna, the exalted
Personality of Godhead. How have they become so fortunate that they
are able to play with Him?

ittham satam brahma-sukhanubhitya
dasyam gatanam para-daivatena
mayasritanam nara-darakena
sardham vijahruh krta-punya-punjah
(Bhdg. 10.12.11)

The cowherd boys playing with Krsna are also not ordinary, for they have
attained the highest perfection of being able to play with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. How did they achieve this position? Krta-punya-
punjah: by many, many lives of pious activities. For many, many lives
these boys underwent austerities and penances to achieve the highest
perfection of life, and now they have the opportunity to play with Krsna
personally on an equal level. They do not know that Krsna is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, for that is the nature of vrndavana-lila,
Krsna’s pastimes in the village of Vrndavana.

Not knowing Krsna’s identity, the cowherd boys simply love Krsna,
and their love is unending. This is true of everyone in Vrndavana. For
example, YaSodamata and Nanda Maharaja, Krsna’s mother and father,
love Krsna with parental affection. Similarly Krsna’s friends love Krsna,
Krsna’s girl friends love Krsna, the trees love Krsna, the water loves
Krsna, the flowers, the cows, the calves—everyone loves Krsna. That is
the nature of Vrndavana. So if we simply learn how to love Krsna, we can
immediately transform this world into Vrndavana.

This is the only central point—how to love Krsna (prema pum-artho
