None of Krishna's entertainments are more important than those where He appears as a young shepherd playing his flute. Let us understand that a simple partial manifestation of his entertainments in Goloka, Mathura and Dvaravati or Dvaraka, can flood the whole universe with love for God. All beings can feel the attraction of the sublime attributes of Krishna.

Although his internal power is not even manifested in the kingdom of God or on the Vaikuntha planets, He brings it to play in this universe when, in His inconceivable compassion, He descends there from His personal abode. Krishna is so fascinating, so wonderful, that He Himself feels the attraction of his own beauty; this is the proof of the inconceivable powers which He fully possesses. As for the finery with which He adorns her body, it does not seem that they add to her beauty but rather that they themselves become beautiful by caressing her body. When He adopts the curved posture in three places, He fascinates all beings including celestial beings. In truth, none of the Narayana emanations that reign over the Vaikuntha planets can resist this fascination.

Krishna is the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Being, established in his internal power, called svarupa-shakti, or atma-shakti. It multiplies in innumerable forms, some of which are said to be personal and others, distinct. Thus does He perform His entertainment on all the spiritual planets as well as within the material galaxies.

The distinct emanations of its forms are designated by the name of living beings, the celestial beings inhabiting the Edenic planets, the human beings, the animals and the plants, and they are subdivided into two classes according to their relation to the energies of the Lord, the ones being eternally liberated and the others eternally conditioned. The former never come into contact with material nature and do not know of temporal existence. Eternally absorbed in Krishna consciousness, or devotional service to the Lord, they are counted among Krishna's companions. Their only happiness lies in the service of spiritual love which they offer to Krishna. Conversely, eternally conditioned beings turn away forever from this loving service, and consequently suffer the three forms of suffering inherent in material existence. Due to their perpetual distancing attitude from Krishna, material energy grants them two types of body: one coarse, of dense matter and formed of the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and ether, the other subtle, ethereal, and formed of mind, intelligence, and ego. Covered by these two bodies, the conditioned soul is forever in the grip of the three forms of material suffering [Those which arise from the body and the mind, those which are caused by other living entities, and those which originate from the elements of material nature, e.g. extreme cold or heat, lightning, earthquakes, hurricanes, drought, etc.] and the onslaught of six enemies (anger, lust, greed, dementia, illusion and envy). Such are the pangs that endlessly gnaw at the conditioned soul. Thus afflicted and conditioned, the living being wanders endlessly in the galaxy, sometimes promoted to higher planetary systems, sometimes forced to transmigrate to lower systems, so that he ends up finding it normal to live in this way. He can only be freed from his illness when he meets and follows the example of the physician par excellence, the authentic spiritual master.