The following is the very classic Tika of Shree Gaudiya-Sampradaya. OM VishnuPad Vishwanatha Chakravarti Thakur explains key concepts: perception of Bhagavan Shree Krishna with material senses and The Highest Bhakti Prema.
The logical chain of this Tika is the following:
love to family, other persons and etc. is just intermediate type of love, because is is love of "jiva-to-jiva". This "jiva-to-jiva" type of love is completely wrong and weird, inherent only in baddha-jivas actually.
However, there is a much higher type of love (Prema), it is "jiva-to-Krishna" love. Only this type of love is The Highest One and True, inherent in mukta-jivas eternally.
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श्रीमद् भागवत पुराण १०।१४।५५
कृष्णमेनमवेहि त्वमात्मानमखिलात्मनाम् जगद्धिताय सोऽप्यत्र देहीवाभाति मायया
shrImad bhAgavata purANa 10.14.55
kRRiShNamenamavehi tvamAtmAnamakhilAtmanAm jagaddhitAya so.apyatra dehIvAbhAti mAyayA
"Shreemad-Bhagavatam", 10.14.55: "You should know Krishna to be the original Soul of all living entities. For the benefit of the whole universe He out of His Causeless Mercy appeared as an ordinary human being. He has done this by the strength of His Internal Potency".
Tika by OM VishnuPad VishwaNatha Chakravarti Thakur: "This verse establishes the conclusion of the discussion: “When one sees the truth he realizes that the individual spirit soul is only an intermediate object of love. The Final Highest Object of love is Shree Krishna Alone.“
Brahma said: “Krishna is The Soul of the universe and the Supersoul present in the hearts of all conditioned souls.”
A person loves children and other persons because they bring pleasure to his own material body. In the same way a person loves his own material body because it brings pleasure to himself, the spirit soul.
Also in the same way a person loves his true self, his spiritual identity, because he brings pleasure to the Supersoul. The Supersoul is Shree Krishna, Whose Spiritual Form Is Perfect And Complete.
in Bhagavad-gita (10.42) Krishna declares: “With a single fragment of Myself l pervade and support this entire creation.”
The conclusion is that because Shree Krishna is The Highest Object Of Love, the greatest love is felt for Him.
Thus the Vraja-Gopis loved Shree Krishna even more than they loved their own sons.
Furthermore how can the conditioned souls, who have no love and devotion for Bhagavan Shree Krishna and whose knowledge is covered by maya (avidya) directly perceive Lord Krishna Who is revealed only by Bhakti?
They cannot directly perceive Shree Krishna because such persons have given all their love to their children and others.
However, because VrajaVasis were beyond the touch of Maya and full of love for Shree Krishna they could directly perceive Lord Shree Krishna.
Thus it was natural that they showed more love for Shree Krishna than their own sons.
When Shree Krishna appears in the world to benefit the conditioned souls (jagad-dhitaya), the ignorant think He has a material body (dehiva) like their own - a body created by Maya. But, that is only an appearance, not the fact.
Shri Madhusudana Saraswati explains:
sac-cit-sukaika-vapusah purusottamasya
narayanasya mahima na hi manam eti
“No one can count all the glories of Lord Narayana. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Whose Form Is Eternal And Full Of Knowledge And Bliss.“
And Shri Madhusudana Saraswati also declares:
Cid anandakaram jalada ruchi saram
Shruti giram vraja strinam haram
“Shree Krishna charms all the Women of Vraja. The Vedas declare that Shree Krishna’s Form dark like a monsoon cloud is Eternal And Full Of Bliss."
Someone may object: “The Supersoul cannot be seen by the senses, but Shree Krishna was easily seen by everyone. Therefore Shree Krishna cannot be the Supersoul."
This verse answers: “To benefit the living entities in the material world Shree Krishna appears by His Causeless And Inconceivable Mercy, to be an ordinary conditioned soul.
Thus Shree Krishna is directly perceived by the senses of the conditioned souls, although in ordinary circumstances Bhagavan Shree Krishna is never perceived by ordinary material senses".
Lord Narayana says in "Shree BrihadBhagavatamrita" that though Krishna is Eternally Unmanifest, He becomes Visible By His Own Desire. Otherwise who can see Him?
Sanatana Gosvami says that Shree Krishna becomes manifest by His Own Power, but He is not revealed to the eye as an object of sense perception.
Outside of Vrindavana Shree Krishna bestows His Sweetness through His Mercy to favorable persons.
To inimical persons Shree Krishna shows His Form, but devoid of Sweetness for perfecting their meditation involving their material senses.
As a result of their meditation Shree Krishna bestows liberation to extinguish their offenses. This is how Shree Krishna gives auspiciousness to them.
Although Shree Krishna covers His Supreme Majesty to appear like an ordinary mortal before the inhabitants of Vraja and before inimical persons, it is improper to call Bhagavan Shree Krishna a jiva with a material body (dehi).
Therefore this Verse describes Lord Shree Krisha as "dehivabhati" - appearing to be a soul with a human body.
OM VishnuPad MadhwAcharya quotes "Shree Varaha-Purana": "For The Lord there is no difference between the body and soul (deha and dehi)".
Cited from
"SARARTHA DARSHINI BY SHRILA VISHVANATHA CAKRAVARTI THAKURA",
10th canto, ENG, translated by Bhanu Swami, 2004 -
