0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,201 Story 42 Vastrana-lila 1 00:00:00,202 --> 00:00:03,079 PRABHUPĀDA: …being trained up how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,487 That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. 3 00:00:05,488 --> 00:00:11,464 Don’t do anything for your personal sense gratification. 4 00:00:11,465 --> 00:00:16,939 Do everything for Kṛṣṇa’s sense gratification. 5 00:00:16,940 --> 00:00:22,746 Just like the gopīs, they used to go to Kṛṣṇa. 6 00:00:22,747 --> 00:00:29,549 These gopīs, they were married, because in India twelve years, 7 00:00:29,550 --> 00:00:34,490 thirteen years girls are married still. 8 00:00:34,491 --> 00:00:37,781 I’ve told many incidences. 9 00:00:37,782 --> 00:00:43,420 So from childhood they are friends, small children, 10 00:00:43,421 --> 00:00:47,583 but the girls are married early, 11 00:00:47,584 --> 00:00:53,593 so they go to their husband’s place, thirteen, fourteen years. 12 00:00:53,594 --> 00:00:56,126 But, because they had… 13 00:00:56,127 --> 00:01:02,576 They prayed to Kātyāyanī when they’re not married, 14 00:01:02,577 --> 00:01:09,206 they prayed to Kātyāyanī that “Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful. 15 00:01:09,207 --> 00:01:13,828 Please give me Kṛṣṇa as my husband.” 16 00:01:13,829 --> 00:01:24,869 Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive, so Kṛṣṇa fulfilled their desire, and that is vastrāṇām. 17 00:01:24,870 --> 00:01:28,357 Of course, these things are not [to be] publicly discussed, 18 00:01:28,358 --> 00:01:33,795 but still you are little interested in Kṛṣṇa. 19 00:01:33,796 --> 00:01:38,576 So all the gopīs, girls, before their marriage, 20 00:01:38,577 --> 00:01:47,083 they prayed to Kātyāyanī that “You give me Kṛṣṇa as my husband.” 21 00:01:47,084 --> 00:01:51,981 So, Kṛṣṇa…, it is not possible socially, 22 00:01:51,982 --> 00:02:00,513 but Kṛṣṇa made such a plan that He accepted every one of them as His wife. 23 00:02:00,514 --> 00:02:03,766 That is vastrana-līlā. 24 00:02:03,767 --> 00:02:05,543 Vastrana-līlā. 25 00:02:05,544 --> 00:02:11,024 The girls were taking bath in the Yamunā, 26 00:02:11,025 --> 00:02:15,375 keeping their clothing, garments, on the shore. 27 00:02:15,376 --> 00:02:19,991 Still in India, especially in Punjab, 28 00:02:19,992 --> 00:02:24,947 the practice is that where the women take bath, 29 00:02:24,948 --> 00:02:26,766 strictly no man can go there, 30 00:02:26,767 --> 00:02:33,955 because they put their clothings on the shore and they dip into the water naked. 31 00:02:33,956 --> 00:02:44,333 So, this was being done, and Kṛṣṇa took their clothings and got up on the tree. 32 00:02:44,334 --> 00:02:50,822 So, they begged Kṛṣṇa, their friend, “Kṛṣṇa, this is very bad. 33 00:02:50,823 --> 00:02:53,249 Why You have taken our…?” 34 00:02:53,250 --> 00:03:03,089 “No, you beg the clothes with folded hands, then I shall give you.” 35 00:03:03,090 --> 00:03:09,233 So, you have read this story, you do not require… 36 00:03:09,234 --> 00:03:14,947 But the idea is that “You wanted Me, all of you, as your husband. 37 00:03:14,948 --> 00:03:16,963 Now I’m fulfilling your desire. 38 00:03:16,964 --> 00:03:19,586 I’m seeing you naked.” 39 00:03:19,587 --> 00:03:26,425 Because a woman can be naked only before the husband. 40 00:03:26,426 --> 00:03:28,951 No one else. 41 00:03:28,952 --> 00:03:31,590 This is chastity. 42 00:03:31,591 --> 00:03:36,528 A woman cannot be naked anywhere; just like in the club, naked dance. 43 00:03:36,529 --> 00:03:45,961 This is most abominable. 44 00:03:45,962 --> 00:03:45,963 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com