Page 67 - History of Tirupathi Balaji and comparison of Sri Vaishnava

CC Madhya 9.129 — There someone may accept Him as a son and sometimes bind
Him to a grinding mortar. Someone else may accept Him as an intimate friend and,
attaining victory over Him, playfully mount His shoulders.
CC Madhya 9.130 — The inhabitants of Vrajabhumi know Krsna as the son
of Maharaja Nanda, the King of Vrajabhumi, and they consider that they can have no
relationship 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 Vrajabhumi attains Him in the transcendental planet of Vraja, where He is
known as the son of Maharaja Nanda.
CC Madhya 9.132 — Caitanya Mahaprabhu then quoted, “ ‘The Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Krsna, the son of mother YaSoda, is accessible to those devotees engaged in
spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those
striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the
body the same as the self.’
CC Madhya 9.133 — The authorities in the Vedic literature who are known as the
Sruti-ganas worshiped Lord Krsna in the ecstasy of the gopis and followed in their footsteps.

CC Madhya 9.134 — The personifi ed authorities on the Vedic hymns acquired bodies
like those of the gopis and took birth in Vrajabhumi. In those bodies they were allowed to
enter into the Lord’s rasa-lila dance.

CC Madhya 9.135 — Lord Krsna belongs to the cowherd community, and the gopis are
the dearmost lovers of Krsna. Although the wives of the denizens of the heavenly planets are
most opulent within the material world, neither they nor any other women in the material
universe can acquire Krsna’s association.

CC Madhya 9.136 — The goddess of fortune, Laksmi, wanted to enjoy Krsna and at
the same time retain her spiritual body in the form of Laksmi. However, she did not follow
in the footsteps of the gopis in her worship of Krsna.

CC Madhya 9.137 — Vyasadeva, the supreme authority on Vedic literature, composed
the verse beginning ‘nayam sukhapo bhagavan’ because no one can enter into the rasa-lila
dance in any body other than that of a gopi.

CC Madhya 9.138 — Before this explanation was given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
Venkata Bhatta thought that Sri Narayana was the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
CC Madhya 9.139 — Thinking in this way, Venkata Bhatta believed that worship of
Narayana was the supreme form of worship, superior to all other processes of devotional
service, for it was followed by the Sri Vaisnava disciples of Ramanujacarya.

CC Madhya 9.140 — Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had understood this misconception
of Venkata Bhatta’s, and to correct it the Lord talked so much in a joking way.

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