For Kṛṣṇa, spending time with the devotees - that is what is important. Just getting things done, He is already doing that as Paramātmā, and He is not with the devotees, that's why it is considered a lower level.
Reading from Nectar of Instruction Study Guide (based on the essays of Bhaktivinoda Thakura): "But, when the home becomes unfavorable for his service, he then becomes eligible to leave home." HH BVPS Mahārāja: So it's an eligibility, to leave home. Not just you don't like it in the home. Your
Rules and regulations aren't the problem. It's not understanding them, that's the problem. Because if you understand them, they are fine. Like devotees, when we say "samskaras", "Why do we have to do samskaras? What's the big deal?" Like that. But if you think about it, okayy, the parents like
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #24 Budapest, Hungary, 10th Aug 2007 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/seminars/manwoman97/20070810_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.MP3 Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya So human life is special. That specialness is that it can be connected, or one can understand one's relationship with Godhead. Other species can't understand these things.
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #23 Budapest, Hungary, 10th Aug 2007 Part 3 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/seminars/manwoman97/20070810_3_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 Prabhu: Mahārāja, you were saying that the order of the mind is sambandha-prayojana-abhideya, and the order of the intelligence is sambandha-abhideya-prayojana... HH BVPS Mahārāja: Means, you are looking at it from... It's which aspect you are looking
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #21 Budapest, Hungary, 10th Aug 2007 Part 1 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/seminars/manwoman97/20070810_1_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 The philosophy of Acintya-bhedabheda-tattva then affords an understanding that is hard to get within any other philosophy. You have the element that contradictory aspects can be reconciled with each other. So the point we will discuss is
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #22 Budapest, Hungary, 10th Aug 2007 Part 2 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/seminars/manwoman97/20070810_2_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.mp3 So this is the application of the philosophy into the culture. You see, it's direct, as it's explained, that's the way it's applied. Does that make sense? So much of the social difficulties we have is simply
MAN WOMAN INTERACTION LECTURE #20 Eger, Hungary, 9th Aug 2007 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/seminars/manwoman97/20070809_BVPS_Eger_Hungary.MP3 HH BVPS Mahārāja: So we see in conclusion of this process of buddhi-yoga is that one is trying to engage oneself fully in Kṛṣṇa's service. So body, mind and words are then engaged according to one's natural propensities, and