[During the rāsa-dance, the Gopika is thinking an ordinary human soul (created by God Krishna having His own form) as God. An ordinary ignorant soul is thinking that Krishna is an ordinary human soul. In this way, illusion exists in both places. At one place, the rope is mistaken as snake and at another place, the snake is mistaken as rope. In both places, truth is not realised and illusion predominated causing ignorance. Hence, in both places, the devotees are destroyed by the ignorance and cannot grow in the true spiritual path.]

[Any devotee is uplifted provided such devotee realises the truth without getting trapped by illusion. Such a devotee shall understand an ordinary human soul as an ordinary human soul and similarly, the devotee must understand God Krishna as God Krishna. Then only, such devotee will develop spiritually based on the true knowledge avoiding ignorance completely. But here, You are saying that the Gopika misunderstanding an ordinary human soul as God Krishna is uplifted spiritually while in the other place, an ordinary human being mistaking God Krishna as human being is lost spiritually. How is this possible?]

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

[O Radha! If your argument that always truth will lead to progress, it should be applicable in the following example also: A mother feeds her child by telling a lie that if the child eats the food completely, the moon will come down to the earth from the sky. If the truth is always for progress and lie is always for loss, the child shall be damaged from its growth. But, the child grows by believing this lie, which is called ‘arthavāda’ or a white lie that is told for some good constructive purpose and not for destructive purpose. By this example, you cannot generalise that truth will always bring progress and lie will always bring destruction.]

[A sage called Satyavrata always spoke truth. Due to his truthfulness, one saint was killed by robbers. Due to this, the sage Satyavrata went down to hell and not to upward heaven. Therefore, truth cannot always lead the soul to upward progress. (Once a saint with some earned pious money was chased by robbers and he ran and hid himself in bushes. The robbers came there and asked a sage called Satyavrata sitting there for the information about the saint. Satyavrata always spoke truth and hence, Satyavrata pointed out at the bushes. The robbers went there, killed the saint and took away his money. Then, at the end of the life, Satyavrata went to hell and he asked god Yamadharmaraja for the reason in his coming to hell. God Yama told that Satyavrata came to hell because he spoke truth due to which the good and innocent saint was killed. Speaking truth or lies is a lower level of justice, whereas doing good to devotees is higher level of justice.)]

[Sage Vyasa wrote the holy Brahma Sūtras. In those Sūtras, there is one Sūtram (Brahmadṛṣṭi rutkarṣāt), which states that you can praise a lower item, but, you should not insult a higher item. It is not sin if you call the servant as king. But, it is very sinful to call the king as servant. Hence, ordinary human beings treating God Krishna as an ordinary human being are at sin. But, Gopikas treating an ordinary human being (created by God Krishna having His own form) as God Krishna are not sinful.]

[If you scold Me that since I made all this arrangement, I shall become the partner of sin, it is not correct. The reason is that these sages born as Gopikas are craving for spiritual salvation and to help them in such highest meritorious effort is the highest merit only and there is no trace of sin in this arrangement.]

[The intention always gives the fruit in doing any action. The action by itself is inert and cannot give any fruit to the soul. If the mother embraces and kisses her son, it is a meritorious deed. If the same action of embracing and kissing is forcibly done by a male rowdy on a lady, it becomes a horrible sin to be severely punished in hell.]

[Where are the ordinary human beings, who can’t recognize God even though the human incarnation of God is standing just before their eyes? Where are the sages, who recognize God at all times doing penance for the past infinite number of births? You have tied both donkey and horse side by side in the lines of animal vehicles.]

[I am the ultimate God called Parabrahman, who is omnipotent and also omniscient. My intention to help any soul is completely based on the deservingness of the devotion of the soul. Can My intention fail anywhere at any time?]

[Mīrā worshipped an inert statue of God Krishna treating the statue itself as God Krishna. By this, Mīrā reached the ultimate spiritual goal. Here, the inert statue is not responsible to lead Mārā to the ultimate goal. The entire responsible instrument to lead Mārā to the eternal goal is only her awareness in the form of thoughts like love and fascination to God Krishna.]

[The scholars remember that the worship of the statue is for the ignorant beginners only. Mīrā followed the idol worship for the sake of the ignorant beginners and not for her sake because she is the climax form of God by herself.]

[Worshipping statues is worship of representative models of God and this is considered as the lower beginning stage. Worship of the energetic form of God present in upper worlds is not possible. Hence, the best middle golden path of worshipping human form of God is very easy for all the human beings living on this earth.]

[Therefore, I have come in this human form for the sake of all the devotees so that they can worship Me theoretically as well as practically. Some souls, who are unable to conquer the lust that is meant for the extension of humanity, divert that lust towards Me due to the influence of their thoughts of Dushpravrutti.]

[Since such lustful devotees possess love towards Me, I want to uplift even such bad souls also since they are directed towards Me only. At the same time, I am praised as the perfect celibate. In this conflict, I do such arrangement as done in this rāsa-dance. On one side, I satisfy them with the divine souls created by Me possessing My form and on the other side, I protect My celibacy perfectly. My action in this context reminds the popular saying that neither the stick is broken nor the serpent is killed.]

[I don’t have any romantic feeling for these lustful devoted souls in this arrangement. My romantic aspiration is always on you only because you are My own form, which is the possessor of infinite ocean of bliss like Me. I uplift these lustful devotees also without touching them through My mind, words and actions.]