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gopīs and followed in their footsteps.
CC Madhya 9.134 — “The personified authori es on the Vedic hymns
acquired bodies like those of the gopīs and took birth in Vrajabhūmi. In

those bodies they were allowed to enter into the Lord’s rāsa-līlā dance.
CC Madhya 9.135 — “Lord Kṛṣṇa belongs to the cowherd community,
and the gopīs are the dearmost lovers of Kṛṣṇa. Although the wives of
the denizens of the heavenly planets are most opulent within the mate-
rial world, neither they nor any other women in the material universe
can acquire Kṛṣṇa’s associa on.
CC Madhya 9.136 — “The goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, wanted to enjoy
Kṛṣṇa and at the same me retain her spiritual body in the form of
Lakṣmī. However, she did not follow in the footsteps of the gopīs in her
worship of Kṛṣṇa.

CC Madhya 9.137 — “Vyāsadeva, the supreme authority on Vedic litera-
ture, composed the verse beginning ‘nāyaṁ sukhāpo bhagavān’ be-
cause no one can enter into the rāsa-līlā dance in any body other than
that of a gopī.”
CC Madhya 9.138 — Before this explana on was given by Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu, Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa thought that Śrī Nārāyaṇa was the Su-
preme Personality of Godhead.
CC Madhya 9.139 — Thinking in this way, Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa believed that
worship of Nārāyaṇa was the supreme form of worship, superior to all

other processes of devo onal service, for it was followed by the Śrī
Vaiṣṇava disciples of Rāmānujācārya.
CC Madhya 9.140 — Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had understood this mis-
concep on of Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa’s, and to correct it the Lord talked so
much in a joking way.
CC Madhya 9.141 — The Lord then con nued, “My dear Veṅkaṭa
Bhaṭṭa, please do not con nue doub ng. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, and this is the conclusion of the Vedic literatures.
CC Madhya 9.142 — “Lord Nārāyaṇa, the opulent form of Kṛṣṇa,
a racts the minds of the goddess of fortune and her followers.

CC Madhya 9.143 — “ ‘All these incarna ons of Godhead are either ple-

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