Passage 8

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In plain words

For a man standing on a boulder to push the boulder aside while still standing on it is not something that can be done. To push the boulder aside, he must get down from it and then try to push it. This is what has been called Vairāgya. Vairāgya means:

not leaving wealth and wife and going off to the forest; to leave the wicked feeling in one's feeling, that is renunciation, and that is yoga.

Even while we live in it, without ties to it, we must try to see that our picture clings fast to the Paramātma. When Uddhava came to Kṛṣṇa: “Svāmī! It is surely those who are beyond the guṇas who can recognise Your principle. How can these ignorant Gopīs, who burn with longing through infatuation, through the body and through the intellect, understand Your principle? How can You come under their sway?” he asked. Then Kṛṣṇa: “Uddhava! It is not possible for you to recognise the heart of the Gopīs.

Though the mothers-in-law cry out, though the husbands sharpen their knives, they do not open their mouths, they go nowhere, they are not afraid: the Gopīs. Like pictures in a book, Kṛṣṇa dwells within them.

The hearts of the Gopīs are like a picture stuck fast on paper. That picture cannot be parted from the paper. In the same way My picture has stuck fast in their hearts. When God has stuck fast in the hearts of sādhakas, even while they carry out other work, it takes shape as God's work,” he taught.