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when affection comes to the platform of spontaneous love is it counted in the category of pure devotional service

An analogy can be given with the sun globe and the sunshine: to remain in the sunshine does not mean One who has gone through the sunshine in jet planes or in spaceships has not necessarily gone to the Kaṁsa and Śiśupāla attained to the Absolute Truth, but they were not allowed to enter into the Goloka enemies of the Lord are, because of attraction to God, allowed to enter into His kingdom, but they are not To enter the kingdom and to enter the king’s palace are not the same thing.

So the gopīs’ love for Kṛṣṇa is certainly not material lusty desire. This very fact means that although the attraction of the gopīs for Kṛṣṇa appears to be lusty, it is not

For example, the cowherd boys who are playing with Kṛṣṇa do not have to learn by austerities or penances

They could not have realization of Paramātmā or Bhagavān. That is the distinction.

The “lusty attitude” of the gopīs does not refer to any sort of sex indulgence.

described by scholars as being like the “lusty desire” of the material world, but actually this should not