If Krishna is complete how can he feel incomplete due to which he comes as Lord Chaitanya?

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question to Chandu so it is said that Krishna felt a sense of incompleteness and that is why he decided to manifest the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu experience rather on his love which he had not been experiencing earlier and it is also said in another leela in the concept of leela that Krishna is like the script writer and he is the actor and Yogamaya is the director so how can Krishna forget himself completely in order to relish the pastimes if he is God and he knows everything so answer firstly in the spiritual realm there are two kinds of incompleteness or in general there are two kinds of incompleteness normally we may sense we can’t give an absolute example for this but a broad example is that one kind of incompleteness is when I am hungry and I feel I need something so at that time I am feeling something in terms of incompleteness and at that time I want something to give to somebody on the other hand I may have a lot of food and then I see somebody who is hungry I feel I should do something for him so one kind of sort of incompleteness is motivated by the scarcity mentality another is by the feeling of abundance, why should I not give to somebody else so the love between Krishna and his devotees is not to compensate for any incompleteness that is there although that sort of terminology may be used it is actually to share and relish the completeness more so all the Acharyas have talked about this in Vedanta Sutra in the second chapter so he says what is this concept of Leela Ramacharya gives the example just as a person said that the absolute truth has no work to do then why does Krishna perform Leela Krishna’s Leela is like a play so a person has his normal job but then after the job for recreation he wants to play the play is not work for him the play is recreation similarly he says that the absolute truth does not have any work his Leela is just like a play now Baldevidya refines this analogy and he says that actually even when a person plays the play also has a purpose that is pleasure, recreation he says actually when Krishna performs his Leela it is not that he seeks pleasure actually the Leela is a result of his pleasure so he gives the example that when a person is happy he starts dancing the dancing is a result of the overflow of the happiness so when a person is so happy that he feels like dancing at that time if he doesn’t dance he will feel a sort of lack of expression of that happiness but it is not that he is dancing to become happy one is playing to become happy whereas one is dancing because he is happy and dancing is an expression of happiness so that Leela is an expression of happiness it results from the overflow of the happiness that is there in the heart of the Lord so in that sense it is not because of any sense of incompleteness so although that sort of word may be used but that is to convey to us that which will be otherwise inconceivable for us so when it is said that Krishna feels bereaved, how can Krishna feel Krishna feels that I was not experiencing something right now, how is that possible actually again another point is that time is there in this spiritual world but it is not time as we know it the time flows in a very different way there is no creation and destruction there is just eternal transition which simply changes the mellows so when it is said that Krishna felt incomplete and then he decided to take on a form of Radharani which was like the form of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu so it was the complexion and the emotion of Radharani when it is said that when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu felt like that when Lord Krishna felt like that, he did like that this is talked of in a philosophical sense, it is not in a time denotational sense because even Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s manifestation was eternal but within eternity it is not that eternity is a passive constancy it is a dynamic ecstasy so that’s why how something can be eternal and still have a beginning, that may be something which we cannot understand from our perspective but this particular point is given to illustrate this point that actually how something can have a philosophical reasoning to it that’s all now going forward to the specifics of the Leela, actually we have to understand that Krishna is not like us and so he is not limited to one set of emotions at a time just as when Krishna is performing pastimes with the Gopis he can by reciprocating each Gopi, the Gopi has a particular emotion, Krishna reciprocates with that emotion so each Krishna is not just a form of Krishna that is there with the whole Gopi but each Krishna is emotionally also available to that Gopi to reciprocate so Krishna can experience many different emotions at the same time that’s why when he is performing a Leela at one level Krishna is just finishing the Leela and he is thinking I am a small child who is being bound by Mother Yashoda but that same child who is being bound in the Damodar Leela after Yashoda might bind him and he goes away then he starts thinking, the Bhagavatam describes that these trees are there they are my devotee Narada Muni has promised that I will deliver these trees now if he is a child how can he think like that so essentially in Leela Krishna conceals and reveals his six opulences in a way that is best suited for the enhancement of loving reciprocation so sometimes Krishna may recollect and sometimes Krishna may seem to forget but the essential purpose of Leela is different from the essential principle of philosophical exposition philosophical teaching is to establish the truth of say Krishna’s supremacy Krishna’s omniscience, Krishna’s all attractiveness but the purpose of Leela is not to establish the truth the purpose of Leela is to relish the reciprocation of love so that’s why that absolute truth that Krishna is all knowing may sometimes be revealed and may sometimes be concealed so once we understand the purpose of the Leela and then see the Leela the Leela is not meant to demonstrate absolute truth in terms of the absolute truth supremacy the Leela is going to demonstrate the absolute truth’s intimacy and for the sake of intimacy sometimes supremacy has to be concealed so the six opulences may sometimes be revealed sometimes be concealed so Krishna is not limited to one emotion that’s why when he is concealing he is also aware that ok now let me reveal so that same Krishna who initially seems to be powerless to escape from the coils of Kali his own body is caught in the coils, the same Krishna has to reveal so much power that by his feet he just crushes the giant hoods of Kali so initially Krishna does not reveal his opulence of strength, he only reveals the opulence of strength, why is there a difference? because that is how Krishna is relishing the pastimes of that that is how he evokes the love of the Gopis and the Vrajavasis the most when they see him trapped they become mad with anxiety and in that anxiety there is a greater remembrance of Krishna, so they relish it more and Krishna says how much they love me that absolute emotion and then even Krishna says ok now the anxiety has become so intense now I want to relieve them of their anxiety then to give them relief from their anxiety to give them ecstasy Krishna manifests his opulence of beauty and of strength and of grace and he dances on the hoods of Kali so when you understand the purpose of Leela, that is the reciprocation of love and doing whatever is required for the reciprocation of love then we can understand how Krishna conceals and how Krishna reveals at different times, his omniscience his omnipotence and his other opulences so is Yogamaya the conceptual understanding of the Jiva that Krishna’s sweetness is greater than his greatness or is it an energy that covers the Jiva so that Jiva forgets Krishna’s greatness and attracts his sweetness actually it is both so when we come to a particular level of consciousness only then will Yogamaya cover us so in that sense we also have to become purified to be sufficiently freed from the covering of Mahamaya then we will become covered by Yogamaya and then we will be able to focus on Krishna’s sweetness, so it is not that at that time we are not aware of Krishna’s greatness we are aware but that is not in the forefront of awareness so the example is just like in the day time also the stars are there in the sky but because the sun is so prominent we can’t see the stars like that the Gopis also know the philosophical truth and that’s why sometimes the Gopis they tell that Krishna actually Brahmaji prayed to you that’s why you have come to this world so they know that Krishna is an incarnation so what focus is Krishna, you are our Sakra please come back that’s how it is