ends on earth, for example, it begins to manifest elsewhere. This is how his eternal entertainment continues unabated. But wherever Lord Krishna may be, all his wonderful entertainments take place at regular intervals.
As the sun goes down, the snakes gain strength, the thieves feel more courage and the specters become active, but the lotuses wither and cakravaki birds wail.
Likewise, when Lord Krishna disappears, atheists feel quickened, but holy beings grieve.
The Lord teaches us what true regulatory principles are; knowledge, detachment and opulence.
The real regulatory principles are those which lead to My devotional service. True knowledge is the consciousness that reveals My omnipresent presence. Detachment is a complete disinterest in the objects of the material satisfaction of the senses, and opulence represents the eight mystical perfections.
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Men who are part of the race of thieves and looters, receive part of the forest as their place of residence.
Thoughts, words and actions cause positive or negative effects, which will have consequences in the life of its author, at the end of his present life already, but certainly in the next. It is the application of karma, law of action-reaction, or law of cause and effect. Karma is infallible justice.
Just as animals are given territories in the forest and in the mountains, so are animal-like humans in their behavior destined to live in such places.
No one can access civilized life unless they adopt Krishna consciousness, the consciousness of God, because according to the laws of nature each one is granted a particular situation according to his karma and his relationship with the gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance.
If men desire to live in harmony and peace, they must opt for Krishna consciousness, for as long as they remain absorbed in a bodily conception of existence, they will be unable to rise to the highest level of existence.
So it is with men who remain attached to their privileged positions until death and who never wish to leave, even in dreams, the charms of the home or of their social situation.