Study a Verse

• As explained in text 32, even great personalities empowered by the Lord are free from the laws of karma.
• Then what to speak of the Lord Himself.
• Therefore His activities, which He performs out of His own pure goodness, are never subject to criticism by ordinary living beings.

The purport's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Separation → Transcendental intimacy. The peak of longing reveals the intensity of selfless love.

Chapters 29–33 of Canto 10: The gopīs' yearning, reunion and rasa. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 33: The Rāsa Dance

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

When He exhibits such pastimes as the rāsa-līlā, all living beings, from Brahmā down to the blades of grass, become merged in the ocean of astonishment. When Mahārāja Parīkṣit heard the narration of Kṛṣṇa’s conjugal pastimes with the gopīs, which superficially resemble the activities of lusty, wanton persons, he expressed a doubt to the great devotee Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī.