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man being. Since my intelligence is very limited and I am easily agitat-
      ed, my mind cannot enter within the deep ocean of the pas mes of the
      Lord.

      CC  Madhya  9.126  —  “You  are  the  Supreme  Personality  of  Godhead,
      Kṛṣṇa Himself. You know the purport of Your ac vi es, and the person
      whom You enlighten can also understand Your pas mes.”
      CC Madhya 9.127 — The Lord replied, “Lord Kṛṣṇa has a special charac-
      teris c: He a racts everyone’s heart by the mellow of His personal con-
      jugal love.
      CC Madhya 9.128 — “By following in the footsteps of the inhabitants of
      the planet known as Vrajaloka or Goloka Vṛndāvana, one can a ain the
      shelter of the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. However, in that planet the inhab-
      itants do not know that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of God-

      head.
      CC  Madhya  9.129  —  “There  someone  may  accept  Him  as  a  son  and
      some mes bind Him to a grinding mortar. Someone else may accept
      Him  as  an  in mate  friend  and,  a aining  victory  over  Him,  playfully
      mount His shoulders.
      CC Madhya 9.130 — “The inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi know Kṛṣṇa as the
      son of Mahārāja Nanda, the King of Vrajabhūmi, and they consider that
      they can have no rela onship with the Lord in the rasa of opulence.
      CC Madhya 9.131 — “One who worships the Lord by following in the

      footsteps of the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi a ains Him in the transcen-
      dental planet of Vraja, where He is known as the son of Mahārāja Nan-
      da.”
      CC  Madhya  9.132  —  Caitanya  Mahāprabhu  then  quoted,  “ ‘The  Su-
      preme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is ac-
      cessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but
      He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for
      self-realiza on by severe austeri es and penances, or to those who con-
      sider the body the same as the self.’
      CC Madhya 9.133 — “The authori es in the Vedic literature who are

      known as the śru -gaṇas worshiped Lord Kṛṣṇa in the ecstasy of the

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