THE CHALLENGE BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS 10.41 SAYS:”Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.”

Ref. VedaBase => Bg 10.41

Some women are beautiful

Some women are wealthy

Some women are beautiful and wealthy

And here lies the attraction.

So if we think in terms of BGAII10.41, then we see Krishna and remain transcendental. But if and when cupid strikes then we become both helpless and ensnared.

Georgina Hope Rinehart (Gina) is a wealthy lady. She is the richest person in Australia. 2021 estimated worth: 31.6 Billion. Born 9 Feb 54 now 72. A blatant example of good karma.

In Yogindra kirtan 2024 /3/ Dubai watch how gracefully some ladies move their arms and hands under the influence of the rhythm of the kirtan. This is extremely aesthetic.

For “aesthetic” dictionary gives:

adjective

concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty: the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure. • 

giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty: the law applies to both functional and aesthetic objects. 

That beauty is Krishna

But in a sense this is playing with fire cause Cupid can strike at any time.

TEXT SB 1.11.36
Uddama bhava pishunah amala valguhasa
Brida avaloka nihito’ madano’ api yasam.
Sammuhya chapam ajahat pramadottamas ta
Yasya indriam vimathitum kuhakair na sethuh.

ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

Uddama — very grave, Bhava — expression, Pishuna — exciting, Amala — spotless, Valguhasa — beautiful smiling, Brida — corner of the eyelids, Avaloka — looking, Nihita — conquered, Madano — cupid (*amadano — Shiva the great tolerant) Api — also Yasam — whose, Sanmuhya — being overpowered by, Chapam — bows, Ajahat — gave up, Pramoda — women who maddens, Uttama — of high grade, Ta — all, Yasya — whose, Indriam — senses, Vimathitum — to cause perturbance, Kuhakair — by magical feats, Na — never, Sekuh — was able.
*There is ‘amadano’ reading also.

TRANSLATION

Although the queen’s beautiful smiling and looking on from the corner of the eyelids were all spotless exciting and grave which could have conquered even the cupid personally because he gave up his bows in frustration (or even the tolerant Shiva also became a victim) still by all these magical feats of attractive features, they could hardly agitate the senses of the Lord.

PURPORT

The path of salvation or the path of going back to Godhead does always forbid association of women and the complete Sanatan Dharma or Varnashram Dharma scheme forbids or restricts association of women. How then one can be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead while the Person Himself is addicted to so many women more than sixteen thousands of wives? This question may be relevantly raised by inquisitive persons really anxious to know about the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord. And to answer such undue question the sages at Naimisaranya have discussed very nicely about the transcendental character of the Lord in this particular and the following verses before ending the chapter. It is clear herein that the feminine attractive features, which can conquer even the Cupid or even the Supermost tolerant Lord Shiva,-could not conquer the senses of the Lord. The cupid’s business is to invoke mundane lust of living being on another living being. The whole universe is moving being agitated by the cupid’s arrow. The activities of the world is being carried on by the central attraction of male and female affinity. A male is searching after a mate to his liking and the female is looking after a suitable male. That is the way of material stimulus. And as soon as a male is combined with a female the material bondage of the living being is at once tightly interlocked by the two opposite hearts by sex-relation and as a result of this, both the male and female’s attraction for sweet home, motherland, bodily offsprings, society and friendship and accumulation of wealth by all means become the illusory field of activities and thus a false but indefatigable attraction for the temporary material existence which is full of miseries, becomes a fail. Those who are therefore on the path of salvation, for going back to home and back to Godhead, are specially advised by all scriptural instruction to become free from such different paraphernalia of material attraction. And that is possible only by the association of the devotees of the Lord who are called the Mahatmas. The cupid, therefore, throws his arrow upon the living being to become mad after his opposite sex never mind whether the party is actually beautiful or not. Such action of the cupid is going on even on the negroes and beastly societies who are all ugly looking in the estimation of the civilized nations. Thus cupid’s influence is exerted even in the ugliest forms (of living being) and-what to speak about the most perfectional stage of personal beauties. Lord Shiva who is considered to be the most perfect tolerant, within this material world, was also struck by the cupid’s arrow because He also became mad after the Mohini incarnation of the Lord and acknowledged himself to be defeated. The cupid however was himself captivated by the grave and exciting dealings of the Goddess of Fortune and he voluntarily gave up his bow and arrow in a spirit of frustration. Such was the beauty and attractive feminine dealings of the queens of Lord Krishna, but still they could not distrub the transcendental senses of the Lord. The reason is that the Lord is all perfect Atmarama or self-sufficient. He does not require anyone’s extraneous help for His personal satisfaction. Therefore, the queens could not satisfy the Lord by their feminine attractiveness but they satisfied the Lord by their sincere affection and service. By unalloyed transcendental loving service only they could satisfy the Lord and the Lord was pleased to treat them as wives in reciprocation of their spontaneous love and service. Thus being satisfied by their unalloyed service only the Lord reciprocated the service just like a devout husband. Otherwise He had no business to become the husband of so many wives. He is the husband of everyone but one who accepts Him as such He reciprocates the feeling just like a devout husband. This unalloyed affection for the Lord is never to be compared with mundane lust. It is purely transcendental. And the grave dealing, which the queens dispalyed in the natural feminine ways, were also transcendental because the feelings were expressed out of transcendental ecstasy. It is already explained in the previous verse that the Lord appeared like a mundane husband but factually His relation with His wives was trancendental, pure and without being conditioned by the modes of material nature.
1.11.37
TEXT No. 37

Tam ayam manyate loko hi asaktam api sanginam
Atma oupamyena manujam baprinwaman yatah abudhah.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Tam — unto Lord Krishna, Ayam — all these (common men) Manyate — do speculate within the mind, Loko — the conditioned souls, Hi — certainly, Asaktam — non-attached, Api — in spite of, Sanginam — affected, Atma — self, Oupamyena — by comparison with self, Manujam — ordinary man, Baprinwanam — being engaged in, Yatah — because, Abudhah — fool on account of ignorance.
TRANSLATION
The common materialistic conditioned souls or men do speculate within the mind that the Lord is one of them, out of foolish ignorance, taking the Lord as affected in matter although He is non-attached.
PURPORT
The word ‘Abudha’ is significant here. Due to ignorance only the foolish mundane wranglers misunderstand the Supreme Lord and spread their foolish imaginations amongst innocent persons by foolish propaganda. The Supreme Lord Sri Krishna is the Original Primeval Personality of Godhead and when He was personally present before the eyes of everyone, He displayed full fledged Divine-potency in every field of activities. As we have already explained in the first verse of Srimad Bhagwatam, He is completely independant to act whatever He likes but all His actions are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Only the foolish mundaners misunderstand Him without any depth of knowledge about His eternal form of knowledge and blissfulness and as confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta and Upanishads, His different potencies do work in a perfect plan of natural sequence, and doing everything by the exigency of His different potency, He remains eternally the Supreme independant. When He descends on the material world by His causeless mercy on different patterns of living being, He does so by His own potency. He is not subject to any condition of the material modes of nature and He descends as He is Originally. The mental speculators misunderstand Him as the Supreme Person, and they consider His impersonal features as inexplicable Brahman the great. Such conception of Him is also product of conditioned life, because they cannot go beyond their own personal capacity. Therefore, one who brings about the Lord on the level of one’s limited potency is only a common man. Such man cannot be convinced that the Personality of Godhead is always unaffected by the modes of material nature. They cannot understand that the Sun is always unaffected by the contamination of infectious matter. Why it is so because they compare everything from the stand point of experimental knowledge of their ownselves. As such when the Lord is found to act like an ordinary person in the matter of tieing Himself in matrimonial bondage, they consider the Lord like one of them with poor fund of knowledge of the fact that the Lord can marry also at once sixteen thousands of wives or more than that. Due to poor fund of knowledge they accept one side of the picture while disbelieving the other. This means that due to ignorance only they always think of Lord Krishna as one of them and make their own conclusions which are absurd and unauthentic from the version of the Srimad Bhagavatam

 One cannot give up thinking of women, for thinking in this way is natural; even while walking on the street, one will see so many women. However, if one is determined not to live with a woman, even while seeing a woman he will not become lusty. If one is determined not to have sex, he can automatically conquer lusty desires. The example given in this regard is that even if one is hungry, if on a particular day he is determined to observe fasting, he can naturally conquer the disturbances of hunger and thirst. If one is determined not to be envious of anyone, he can naturally conquer anger. Similarly, one can give up the desire to accumulate wealth simply by considering how difficult it is to protect the money in one’s possession. SB 7.15.22