We're getting to this really fascinating verses today in Bagu Tam, in this Rasalila.

I want to read you some, this is very short reading here, just a couple sentences.

Okay, so don't freak out.

This is also from Dance of Divine Love by Graham Schweig, who writes,

The special nature of Lila, of Krishna's Lila's Christmas' pastimes,

is both playful and didactic.

What does that mean?

Didactant means it's teaching something.

It has a lesson to convey. Although Lila is for the pleasure of Krishna and his devotees, and everything that occurs in Lila contributes to the delight

and celebration of supreme love and beauty, there are aspects that also instruct those

who have yet to enter into its esoteric domain.

So what we're reading about Krishna playing the flute, the Gopi is coming running to him.

This is, this is Krishna's play. He's doing it because he enjoys it, because it is an expression of

his own love and of his own joy.

But there's something for us to learn in it as well, something to learn about the Gobi's.

And what we can learn here is that their attention was drawn to Krishna, and that they're glorified as the high sh yogi's because they were the most fixed.

They had that, they embodied that, you know, ananya-chaeta, satatam, constantly fixed, focused

on the highest object of meditation on Krishna.

And there's the idea that when you bring your mind to that object,

when your attention flows to it, it's more powerful than anything willpower could do for you.

It's more purifying. It's more transformative. And ultimately, it's far more satisfying and blissful

than anything that you're trying to do through force.

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