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 inclined to His devotee. He is the controller of this material nature and of all living entities. He is also the controller of inexhaustible time, and He is full of all opulence and all po- tencies. The Supreme Personality of Godhead can even give Himself to the devotee. One who does not know Him is under the spell of illusion; he does not become a devotee, but a servitor of maya. Arjuna, however, after hearing Bhagavad- gita from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, became free from all illusion. He could understand that Krishna was not only his friend but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And he understood Krishna factually. So to study Bhagavad-gita is to understand Krishna factually. When a person is in full knowledge, he naturally surrenders to Krishna. When Arjuna understood that it was Krishna's plan to reduce the unneces- sary increase of population, he agreed to fight according to Krishna's desire. He again took up his weapons — his arrows and bow — to fight under the order of the Supreme Personal- ity of Godhead.” (Bg 18.73 purport) What is the experience of spiritual life and divine happiness Lord Krishna descended into this world over 5000 years ago to demonstrate the factual, ever-blissful enjoyment in the spiritual world called Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindaban. In the spiritual world one is freed from the six kinds of material pangs, namely hunger, thirst, lamentation, illusion, old age and death. These are types of suffering one receives in the material world. They are completely absent in the spiritual world. The eternal, never-ending pleasurable facilities of life in the spiritual world are in sharp contrast to the temporary, perverted reflections of the same in the material world. The term “perverted reflection” refers to the variety and opulence of the spiritual world perverted by the qualities of passion and ignorance which are expressed as lust and anger in this world. It is similar to the full moon reflected on the water of a river whose current is flowing very fast. If one looks at the reflection of the moon on the waves of the current, it seems as if the moon is shaking and moving. However, if one looks up at the moon it seems to be silent and still in the evening 35Â