Story 42 Vastrana-lila
PRABHUPĀDA: …being trained up how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa.
That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
Don’t do anything for your personal sense gratification.
Do everything for Kṛṣṇa’s sense gratification.
Just like the gopīs, they used to go to Kṛṣṇa.
These gopīs, they were married, because in India twelve years,
thirteen years girls are married still.
I’ve told many incidences.
So from childhood they are friends, small children,
but the girls are married early,
so they go to their husband’s place, thirteen, fourteen years.
But, because they had…
They prayed to Kātyāyanī when they’re not married,
they prayed to Kātyāyanī that “Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful.
Please give me Kṛṣṇa as my husband.”
Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive, so Kṛṣṇa fulfilled their desire, and that is vastrāṇām.
Of course, these things are not [to be] publicly discussed,
but still you are little interested in Kṛṣṇa.
So all the gopīs, girls, before their marriage,
they prayed to Kātyāyanī that “You give me Kṛṣṇa as my husband.”
So, Kṛṣṇa…, it is not possible socially,
but Kṛṣṇa made such a plan that He accepted every one of them as His wife.
That is vastrana-līlā.
Vastrana-līlā.
The girls were taking bath in the Yamunā,
keeping their clothing, garments, on the shore.
Still in India, especially in Punjab,
the practice is that where the women take bath,
strictly no man can go there,
because they put their clothings on the shore and they dip into the water naked.
So, this was being done, and Kṛṣṇa took their clothings and got up on the tree.
So, they begged Kṛṣṇa, their friend, “Kṛṣṇa, this is very bad.
Why You have taken our…?”
“No, you beg the clothes with folded hands, then I shall give you.”
So, you have read this story, you do not require…
But the idea is that “You wanted Me, all of you, as your husband.
Now I’m fulfilling your desire.
I’m seeing you naked.”
Because a woman can be naked only before the husband.
No one else.
This is chastity.
A woman cannot be naked anywhere; just like in the club, naked dance.
This is most abominable.
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