[The quality of Tamas is said to be born from ignorance (Tamastvajñānajaṃ viddhi - Gita). Now, you are telling that Tamas means the firmness, which may be present in the path of knowledge or in the path of ignorance. Is this not condemned as a contradiction?]

 

[How do You say that justice in sexual matters exists in the Bhāgavatam in which at least some Gopikas are coming to You leaving their husbands? Is it the justice in sexual life that is to be taught to public for their worldly as well as spiritual welfare?]

 

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[When Tamas was told as the firmness in ignorance, the preached souls were worldly souls in which the ignorance is a natural tendency. When I say that Tamas is the firmness in spiritual knowledge, the context of referred souls is the divine incarnations in whom the spiritual knowledge is the natural tendency. Hence, the two contexts are quite different based on their natural tendencies. My statement differs properly based on the difference in the referred souls.]

 

[O God! Again, the same question is coming from your mouth! Now, I will explain in detail. The first point you must note is that Gopikas have only played this drama of Rāsakeli dance. In fact, Gopikas are sages doing penance for God from several births, who burnt their lust in their penance fire and they are also the very authors of the ethical scriptures that are being followed across the worlds.]

 

[These Gopikas were sages in all their previous births. They thought in the past that out of all the three strongest worldly bonds, the spouse-bond (Dāreṣaṇā) is the real strongest bond. They were mistaken in this concept because the real strongest bond is the bond with children (Putreṣaṇā). The sages approached God Rama with this mistaken concept.]

 

[The sages thought that they would become females by their supernatural power and embrace God Rama so that they could win the spouse-bond test. They thought that they can defeat their spouse-bond for the sake of God in this way. They also thought that by defeating spouse-bond in this way, the other two bonds (with wealth and children) also can be treated as defeated. They expressed this desire to God Rama. God Rama replied that they shall be born as females in the next birth to fulfill their desire.]

 

[God Rama didn’t reveal the truth that the bond with children is stronger than the bond with wife because He wanted all the sages to know the truth through practical experience and not by mere theoretical preaching. God Rama did not open the truth for another reason also. If the truth is revealed then, the sages will remember the truth due to their supernatural power even in the next birth and become alert to pass the test of bond with children.]

 

[God Rama replied sages like an innocent human being “All of you be born as female Gopikas in the next birth. I will satisfy your desire by coming as Krishna. At present, this is not possible because I am restricted to the principle of one wife.”]

 

[Lord Rama didn’t say that they will be satisfied with His illusory forms. If this truth is not known to them, they will think that they have broken their spouse-bonds for the sake of real form of God only and not for the sake of illusory form of God.]

 

[Here also, the logic is different. The inert statues created and established by devotees (not by Me) are worshipped and the aspired fruits are attained by the devotees. This comes under the path of worship of representative model of God in which the representative model is believed as God directly.]

 

[When even such inert statues created by devotees are giving the aspired fruits to devotees having faith that the statues are directly God, what to speak about My illusory forms created by Me, which are alive and non-inert in giving the aspired fruits to the devotees? But, this truth is also hidden by Me because the ignorance of the soul is very powerful and the soul does not realise the truth through logical analysis. This means that faith on an inert representative model created by humans with several defects also gives the aspired fruit. In such case, why not a non-inert alive model created by God directly without any defect become fruitful? This logic is perfect, but, since the soul is always foolishly ignorant, this fact is not revealed and kept as secret.]

 

[These Gopikas have no bad qualities of Dushpravrutti at all. They are leading justified family life as per the order of God Rama and they are the scholastic authors of Pravrutti or worldly life, being the authors of ethical scriptures. They have only played this drama of Rāsa-dance for the sake of souls in Kali age that is coming shortly in which almost all souls will be sinful belonging to Dushpravrutti.]

 

[These Gopikas are originally sages, who already burnt their lust in their penance fire. They are dancing with My illusory forms feeling themselves as their sisters. They are very pure souls. This is an internal drama in this world-drama.]

 

[The essence of the internal drama called as Rāsa-dance is that the justified Pravrutti is acting as sinful Dushpravrutti. This means that the Gopika, who is strictly following the justified family life of Pravrutti, is acting as sinful soul of unjust Dushpravrutti by leaving her husband and dancing with My more attractive illusory form due to her hidden lust of Dushpravrutti. The result of this sinful action is not hell, but, the salvation!]

 

[This is very unexpected surprising result because a sinful soul deserving hell as fruit is getting divine salvation! The reason for this wonderful result is that the selected partner is not another sinful human being, but is God (in the view of the sinful soul). The preached essence is that the sinful soul shall divert its bad quality towards God from the surrounding society.]

 

[Here, another important point of the Kali age is that the Gopika is in the role of strict justified life of Pravrutti, but got attracted to Dushpravrutti. In Kali age, even the souls living in strictly justified family life of Pravrutti will have the bad qualities hidden in their minds and when the proper occasion comes, they will turn towards sinful life of unjust Dushpravrutti. To make this point known, the Gopika in justified Pravrutti life turned to Dushpravrutti when an occasion to dance with illusory Krishna came.]

 

[The final message is that the ultimate goal of pacification of sinful lust should not be with a human soul due to which the hell is the result. It is better to select God in the place of such sinful human soul. But, such dance with God (the soul thinks that the illusory form of God is the real form of God) must also not be the ultimate goal so that the sinful soul shall not think that this Rāsa-dance is the final goal, which will continue in the upper world also after death.]

 

[The sinful soul is very much attracted towards God due to His unimaginable external beauty and becomes very very close to God. In such stage, the soul will study the details of the divine personality of God. The soul will then realise that God is the embodiment of justice.]

 

[Some people try to throw blame on God that God is spoiling these sinful souls through the arrangement of His illusory forms. Such fools do not know the important point that even though such sinful souls are not spoiled by God in this way, they even otherwise get spoiled in Dushpravrutti by uniting with other sinful male souls.]

 

[If the soul goes to Dushpravrutti by selecting another sinful male soul, the soul will go to hell for eternal suffering. If the same soul enters the Rāsa-field in which the soul is engaged in sinful action with the illusory form of God, the soul is finally getting salvation. In order to get the patient relieved from the suffering of a disease, the doctor will perform the surgery, which also gives some temporary suffering. Causing the temporary suffering is not a sin since it is going to relieve the patient from the permanent suffering due to the disease.]

 

[When the soul is to be dragged from bad qualities, it is just the beginning stage. Hence, the defects are unavoidable in any beginning stage. When the fire is lit using sticks, the smoke is generated in the beginning. After the generation of smoke only, the clear flames appear. Without generating smoke, the appearance of radiant flames at once is impossible.]

 

[I am not involved in this Rāsa-dance by physical body, words and feelings of mind. I am untouched by this played drama. I get enjoyment from you alone in the angle of romance. Because you are My own self, I enjoy the infinite ocean of bliss of My own nature and this makes Me to maintain Myself as the perfect celibate.]

 

[Just like Shri Ādi Śaṅkara, the future incarnation of God Shiva, is a perfect celibate, I am also a perfect celibate like Him enjoying the bliss of My own soul possessing Parabrahman. There is no trace of any difference between both of us. We both are like a Yogi (incarnation of God) appearing in two forms.]

 

[I am in the form of Krishna. You are in the form of Radhika. Just like the Yogi is in two forms by His miraculous power, the unimaginable God called Parabrahman also appeared in two forms due to His unimaginable power, resulting in Myself and yourself. Our roles in this world-drama are the Divine Incarnation and the climax devotee. The purpose of our roles is to preach the spiritual knowledge to this world.]

 

[I know all this and you don’t know anything about this. Such states of awareness and ignorance are created on both of us to suit our prescribed roles respectively in this divine drama. You will also come to know all this, when you leave your role after coming out of this world-drama. As long as any actor exists on the stage of play, it is the best state in which the actor is completely immersed in the role and identifies himself/herself with the role only.]

 

[The unimaginable God called Parabrahman wishes to uplift all the souls created by Him so that all the souls merge with the first energetic incarnation of the unimaginable God called God Datta. But, to get success in this spiritual program of attaining eternal ocean of divine bliss, the soul also has equal responsibility.]

 

[Just like the food is given to a hungry person and just like the water is given to a thirsty person, the spiritual knowledge of Nivrutti (details of divine personality of God) must be given only to the soul, which is craving for divine salvation.]