Kṛṣṇa comes and He presents Himself just like ordinary man acting. Why? Just like here in the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa is present in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Oh, He had no necessity of presenting Himself in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra. But it is for us, because we are very much anxious to know where battle is going on, where fighting is going on, where detective is working, where murder is committed. All these literatures attract us very much. Stories and literatures, all these things, they attract very much. In a bookshop you go, if you ask them, "Supply me one copy of Bhagavad-gītā," he will have to find out. But if you ask a bookseller, "Give me some novels," oh, he will present so many things.
Because our inclination is like that. We are always anxious to learn these mundane affairs. We have no taste for spiritual upliftment. That taste we have lost. That is the stage of our present existence—forgetfulness. We do not know how our taste should be created, how our taste should be converted from material to spiritual. That we do not know. Therefore Lord is so kind, Kṛṣṇa, that He creates a battlefield for you so that you may be anxious to know, "Who is fighting with whom? Who is fighting with whom?"
Because we are always very much anxious to learn stories, so all these Purāṇas . . . just this morning we were discussing that all these: strī-śūdra-dvijabandhūnāṁ trayī na śruti-gocarā (SB 1.4.25).
Vyāsadeva is so kind that he could understand that the next generation before, I mean to say, five thousands years before, when he was thinking . . . we should always know that great thinkers, great, I mean to say, sages, ṛṣi, they are sitting in the secluded place, in a forest, not idly. They are always thinking how people should be benefited. How people should be benefited. Lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau. Just like we sing daily about the Gosvāmīs (sings):
- nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau
- lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau tri-bhuvane mānyau śaraṇyākarau
- rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau
- vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau
- (Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka, verse 2)
Now, just see. These gentlemen, they are . . . some of them were big zamindar, some of them were learned scholar, some of them were ministers in the government service, but they left everything. And at Vṛndāvana they sat down? Nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau. No, they were find out, making research by researching all kinds of Vedic literature how things should be presented to the people of this age so that they can take up the matter very seriously and easily, and they can make progress. That was their business.