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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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