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please Krsna. That is perfection. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu recom-
mends, ramyd kacid updsana vraja-vadhti-vargena ya kalpita: there is no
better process by which to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead
than that method adopted by the gopis.

The gopis had no desire other than to satisfy Krsna. All the gopis tried
to satisfy Him, including the elder gopis, YaSoda and her friends, and so
also did the elderly gopas like Nanda Maharaja and his friends. The boys
and girls of Vrndavana who were of the same age as Krsna also tried to
satisfy Him. Everyone tried to satisfy Krsna—even the cows, the flowers,
the fruits, and the water of Vrndavana. This is because everything in
Vrndavana is spiritual; nothing is material.

We should understand the difference between spiritual and material.
That which is material has no living symptoms, and that which is spiritual
has all living symptoms. Both the trees in the spiritual world and those in
the material world are living entities, but in trees here the living
symptoms are absent. A human being is a living entity, and the devotees
in the spiritual world are also living entities, but in the human beings who
are not Krsna conscious the real symptoms of life are absent.

Actually there is no other consciousness but Krsna consciousness.
And that consciousness is spiritual. Thus even while in this material
world, if we simply increase our Krsna consciousness we shall live in the
spiritual world. If we live in the temple, we live in the spiritual world be-
cause in the temple there is no business other than Krsna consciousness.
Thereare so many engagements carried out for Krsna. Those who strictly
follow the regulations of Krsna consciousness actually live in the spiritual
world, not the material world. We may think we are living in New York,
Los Angeles, or elsewhere, but we are actually living in Vaikuntha.

It is a question of consciousness. A bug may sit on the same seat with
the spiritual master, but because the spiritual master has developed con-
sciousness and the bug does not, they are different. They may be sitting
in the same place, but the bug remains a bug, and the spiritual master re-
mains the spiritual master. The position in space may remain the same,
just as we remain in the material world or the spiritual world, but if our
Krsna consciousness is strong, we are not in the material world.

Thus renunciation by itself, the simple giving up of worldly things, is
not sufficient. Renunciation may be a helpful process, but it will not help
absolutely. When we increase our attachment for Krsna, our renuncia-
tion will be perfect. As we increase attachment for Krsna, attachment for
this material world will automatically diminish. Attachment for Krsna
and the material world cannot go hand in hand. If a woman is attached to
