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Devotees who are attracted to Kṛṣṇa as parents or as friends should follow in the footsteps of Nanda Nanda Mahārāja is the foster father of Kṛṣṇa, and out of all of the friends of Kṛṣṇa, Subala is the most
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and mother Yaśodā, is to be found the ideal transcendental concept of being the father and mother of Kṛṣṇa Factually, no one can become the father or mother of Kṛṣṇa, but a devotee’s possession of such transcendental feelings is called love of Kṛṣṇa in a parental relationship. So spontaneous love of Kṛṣṇa in the parental relationship is found both among those denizens of Dvārakā
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beauty and immediately thought of the gopīs in Vṛndāvana, who enjoyed conjugal loving affection with Kṛṣṇa conjugal love in the manner of the gopīs, although they were well aware of the Supreme Lord as both Kṛṣṇa They knew that although Rāmacandra was an ideal king and could not accept more than one wife, Lord Kṛṣṇa These sages also concluded that the form of Lord Kṛṣṇa is more attractive than that of Lord Rāmacandra , and so they prayed to become gopīs in their future lives to be associated with Kṛṣṇa.
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This spontaneous love for Kṛṣṇa can be developed only by the special mercy of Kṛṣṇa or His pure devotee The Vallabha sampradāya, which belongs to the Viṣṇu Svāmī sect of Vaiṣṇava religion, worships Kṛṣṇa in Generally devotees in Gujarat worship Bāla Kṛṣṇa under this heading of puṣṭi-mārga.
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One who develops conjugal love for Kṛṣṇa as a wife is promoted to Dvārakā, where the devotee becomes One who develops conjugal love for Kṛṣṇa as a lover is promoted to Goloka Vṛndāvana to associate with the gopīs and enjoy loving affairs with Kṛṣṇa there. We should note carefully, however, that this conjugal love for Kṛṣṇa, either as gopī or as queen, is
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Thus they were blessed by Lord Rāmacandra to have association with Lord Kṛṣṇa in their future lives. gopīs at Gokula, and as they had desired in their previous lives, they enjoyed the company of Lord Kṛṣṇa life was thus achieved by their generating a transcendental sentiment to share conjugal love with Lord Kṛṣṇa
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sons of fire-gods rigidly followed the regulative principles in their desire to have conjugal love for Kṛṣṇa they were able to associate with the Lord, the origin of all creation, who is known as Vāsudeva, or Kṛṣṇa
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This development of conjugal love for Kṛṣṇa is not manifested in women only. A woman may develop an attitude for becoming a friend of Kṛṣṇa, and, similarly, a man may develop the Later on, these sages appeared in Gokula Vṛndāvana when Kṛṣṇa advented Himself there, and they were born as gopīs, or girlfriends of Kṛṣṇa.
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Out of these two, the attempt to directly become the father of Kṛṣṇa is not recommended. The Māyāvādīs, or monists, think that they themselves are Kṛṣṇa, and if one thinks that he himself has philosophical way of thinking is offensive, and no offender can enter into the kingdom of God to associate with Kṛṣṇa
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feelings is called love of Kṛṣṇa in a parental relationship. as gopīs, or girlfriends of Kṛṣṇa. the gopīs and enjoy loving affairs with Kṛṣṇa there. Nanda Mahārāja is the foster father of Kṛṣṇa, and out of all of the friends of Kṛṣṇa, Subala is the most This spontaneous love for Kṛṣṇa can be developed only by the special mercy of Kṛṣṇa or His pure devotee
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Spontaneous love of Kṛṣṇa as exhibited by the Vṛṣṇis and the denizens of Vṛndāvana is eternally existing
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is a story of an old man residing in Hastināpura, capital of the kingdom of the Pāṇḍus, who desired Kṛṣṇa