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Thank you Madana-mohana Prabhu. Yes I think this does answer the question.

Ys TS

 

> >"Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti offers his good counsel to the interested

> >Vaisnavas when he says that they should not be interested in hearing only

> >about the Lord's activities (like rasa-lila) but must be keenly

> >interested in His pastimes in His feature of the purusavataras in

> >connection with srsti-tattva, creational functions, following the example

> >of Maharaja Pariksit, the ideal disciple, and Sukadeva Goswami, the ideal

> >spiritual master." SB 2.4.10 purport

>

> Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> A similar quote is there in SB 2.7.53&purp, which answers Maharaja's

> question to some extent:

>

> m€y€ˆ varŠayato 'muya

> …varasy€numodataƒ

> Švataƒ raddhay€ nityaˆ

> m€yay€tm€ na muhyati

>

>

> TRANSLATION

>

> The Lord's activities in association with His different energies should be

> described, appreciated and heard in accordance with the teachings of the

> Supreme Lord. If this is done regularly with devotion and respect, one is

> sure to get out of the illusory energy of the Lord.

>

> PURPORT

>

> ...

>

> Some of them think that to hear about the pastimes of the Lord means to

> hear about His activities with the gop…s or about His pastimes like

> lifting the Govardhana Hill, and they have nothing to do with the Lord's

> plenary expansions as the puru€vat€ras and Their pastimes of the

> creation, maintenance or annihilation of the material worlds. But a pure

> devotee knows that there is no difference between the pastimes of the

> Lord, either in r€sa-l…l€ or in creation, maintenance or destruction of

> the material world. Rather, the descriptions of such activities of the

> Lord as the puru€vat€ras are specifically meant for persons who are in

> the clutches of the external energy. Topics like the r€sa-l…l€ are meant

> for the liberated souls and not for the conditioned souls.

>

> ****The conditioned souls, therefore, must hear with appreciation and

> devotion the Lord's pastimes in relationship with the external energy, and

> such acts are as good as the hearing of r€sa-l…l€ in the liberated

> stage.*****

>

> A conditioned soul should not imitate the activities of liberated souls.

> Lord ®r… Caitanya never indulged in hearing the r€sa-l…la with ordinary

> men.