So Kṛṣṇa, although He's playing the part of human being, His activities are transcendental. Na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛhā (BG 4.14). That is the distinction between Kṛṣṇa and ourself. He is killing. He has killed so many demons; from the very childhood His one side is killing—Pūtanā killing, Aghāsura, Bakāsura, this asura, that asura, then Keśī, and so many asuras He killed. But His killing and our killing is not the same. Na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti. And in the Īśopaniṣad is . . . apāpa-viddham. That is Kṛṣṇa. If we imitate Kṛṣṇa . . . we cannot imitate. Therefore our business is to follow the words of Kṛṣṇa, not to imitate Him. That is suicidal. We shall follow the instruction of Kṛṣṇa as He is giving in the Bhagavad-gītā. But if we become so rascal to imitate His rāsa-līlā, then we'll go to hell. But the Māyāvādīs, they sometimes do that. That . . . in the Bhāgavatam it is forbidden that, "Imitation of this . . ." Idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ. What is that verse, vraja . . . no, that . . .? That, "These pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Viṣṇu, with the gopīs, they should not be . . . not only they should be imitated, they should not be thought even within the mind that, 'We can also do like that.' " It is forbidden.
Then the question was . . . Parīkṣit Mahārāja questioned this, "Kṛṣṇa, He came to establish religious principles." Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham (BG 4.7). Paritrāṇāya sādhū . . . vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām, dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya (BG 4.8). "So why Kṛṣṇa did this act?" Because it is forbidden to mix with others' wife or daughter. Without being married, according to Vedic culture, no man or woman can mix very intimately. That is even in the ordinary dealings. Mātṛvat para-dāreṣu. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita said that, "Except your wife, all women are your mother." This is paṇḍita. Who is a paṇḍita, learned? Now:
- mātṛvat para-dāreṣu
- para-dravyeṣu loṣṭravat
- ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu
- yaḥ paśyati sa paṇḍitaḥ
- (Cāṇakya Paṇḍita)
This is the description of paṇḍita. Paṇḍita . . . and in the Bhagavad-gītā, the paṇḍita is described: paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ (BG 5.18). This is paṇḍita. Nowadays it has become the custom that unless you have got a university degree, either you may be in knowledge . . . māyayā apahṛta-jñānāḥ, you are not recognized as a paṇḍita. But in the Vedic scripture, the paṇḍita is different person. Anyone . . . this is the moral instruction by Cāṇakya Paṇḍita.
- mātṛvat para-dāreṣu
- para-dravyeṣu loṣṭravat
- ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu
- yaḥ paśyati sa paṇḍitaḥ
- (Cāṇakya Paṇḍita)
He is giving the description of paṇḍita in three ways, "One who sees all women except his wife as mother—he is paṇḍita. One who takes others' money as garbage on the street—he is paṇḍita. And one who sees everyone, even to the ant, like himself that, 'If I . . . if somebody pin, pricks pin on my body, I get, I suffer. I feel pain. So why shall I give pain even to an ant?' " Ātmavat sarva-bhūteṣu.