enjoying more than the Lord?

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> In SB1.13.42 PURPORT Srila Prabhupada writes:

> "In his liberated state he [referring to the living being], renders

> service to the Lord in transcendental love and thus enjoys a life of full

> freedom, even sometimes on an equal level with the Lord or sometimes more

> than the Lord."

>

> Please explain how one enjoys more than the Lord with examples!

> What enjoyment can be more than what the Lord enjoys?

 

Madhudvisa: Prabhupada, I read in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Volume Three, that

when one becomes a liberated soul, he attains perfect freedom, and even

sometimes that freedom is on the same level as Krsna or even more than

Krsna.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Madhudvisa: Can you explain that?

Prabhupada: Yes. Just like this Vasudeva, he's more than Krsna. Yasoda, you

have seen the picture? Yasoda is binding Krsna.

Madhudvisa: Oh, the little baby. Yes.

Prabhupada: Yes, He has become... The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who

is, I mean to say, afraid, who is fearful by everyone, Yasoda..., and Krsna

has become fearful to Yasoda: "My dear mother, kindly do not bind Me. I

shall obey your orders." So Yasoda has become more than God, more than

Krsna. The Mayavadi philosophers, they want to be one with Krsna or one with

Lord, but our philosophy is to become more than Krsna. (laughter) Why one

with Krsna? More than Krsna. And actually He accepts. He makes His devotee

more than Krsna. Just like Arjuna and Krsna. Krsna took the part of a

driver, and he was the hero of the fight. Actually, Krsna was the hero, but

He gave position to His devotee: "You become the hero, I shall become your

charioteer." That's all. Don't you see how Arjuna has become more than

Krsna? Krsna says, "Arjuna, you are hesitating to fight, but you know that

all these person who have assembled in this battlefield, they are not going

back. They are already killed. That is My plan. You simply take the credit

that you have killed them. That's all." (laughter) That He wants. Just like

a father wants a son to see him more than himself. If a father is an M.A.,

he wants to see his son M.A., Ph.D., or something more. He's satisfied.

He'll not tolerate anybody to become more than him, but he'll tolerate if

his son becomes more than him. I'm giving you a crude example. Similarly,

Krsna, or the Lord, wants to see His devotee more than Himself. That is His

pleasure. He takes pleasure in that. So to become a devotee is not ordinary

thing. You see. He has got the chance to become more than God. Why equal

with God, one with God? No. More than God. Yes. That is our philosophy. Yes.

 

Lecture -- Los Angeles, November 13, 1968