1. Krsna’s invitation

    Krsna’s lila is nitya-lila. Just to attract us, that “You are fond of dancing. Why don’t you come back to Me and dance with Me? Why you are rotting in this rotting dance? You want association. You want sporting. Why don’t you come to Me and take part in My sporting with the cowherds boy?” This is invitation of Krsna.

    So one who has got intelligence will try to enter the transcendental pastimes of the Lord, either as a cowherd boy or as a servant or as a flower, as a tree, or the water of Yamuna, or the land, or the father and the mother and the conjugal lover. Or it may be as enemy, as Aghasura, Bakasura, Putana. They are also blessed, because they are acting with Krsna. This is the sum and substance of Vrndavana lila. Krsna comes, He exhibits His lila in Vrndavana to attract the conditioned souls, who are engaged in false lila, temporary lila, or hellish lila. Krsna wants to save us.

    From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.8 — March 15, 1974, Vrndavana