Wherefrom Naughtiness and Stealing Comes From If It Is Not In God, But Because He Is Absolute, His Stealing Is As Good As His Blessing

[Gavin Swinden]

(So wherefrom this naughtiness comes if it is not in the person of God? Wherefrom this stealing propensity comes if it is not in God? But because He is absolute, His stealing is also as good as his blessing. Mākhan-cora. Kṛṣṇa is stealing butter, that is worshiped, mākhana , by the very name)

 

"Just like the other day . . . . . . a lady, she asked if Kṛṣṇa was a naughty boy. Yes, because He is God He must be naughty boy. Otherwise, wherefrom this idea of naughty boy comes if that quality is not in God? God is the origin of everything, creator of everything.

 

So if He hasn't got this naughtiness in His person, then how this thing comes to be? That is the Vedānta version, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1) . The Supreme Absolute Truth is that from which or from whom everything emanates. So wherefrom this naughtiness comes if it is not in the person of God?

 

Wherefrom this stealing propensity comes if it is not in God? But because He is absolute, His stealing is also as good as his blessing. Mākhan-cora. Kṛṣṇa is stealing butter, that is worshiped, mākhana , by the very name. Just like in another temple, Kṣīra-cora-gopīnātha. Gopīnātha (Krsna) is known as condensed milk thief, Kṣīra-cora.

 

He is famous by the name cora, thief. But that cora and this cora, you cannot compare. He is famous as cora, or thief, but thousands of people go every day to worship that cora, that thief. And in the material, if one is known as thief, then thousands of people will beat him with shoes. (laughter) That is the difference."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Conversation, March 10, 1972, Vrindavana)

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

[Gavin Swinden]