Love:Lust:::Gold:Iron

Verse 1.10.28 (Mohan Pr):
* Queens of Hastinapur are glorifying the high position of the queens and girlfriends of Krishna. This is a very high topic and we are not qualified to speak on this topic.
* There is a lot of difference between love and lust. This is all love, the rishis in their previous births did many many penances to attain the conjugal relationship with the Lord.
* The wifes and girlfriends of the Lord, must have undergone vows, baths, fire sacrifices and perfect worship of the Lord of the universe.
* Srila Prabhupada here says: Attainment of this stage of pure spiritual life is the highest perfection, and this stage is called svarūpa, or the factual identity of the living being. Liberation means renovation of this stage of svarūpa. In that perfect stage of svarūpa, the living being is established in five phases of loving service, one of which is the stage of mādhurya-rasa, or the humor of conjugal love.
* Herein two classes of devotees of the Lord are mentioned in the stage of conjugal love. One is svakīya, and the other is parakīya. Both of them are in conjugal love with the Personality of Godhead Krsna.
* The kissing of the Lord, either by His wives or His young girl friends who aspired to have the Lord as their fiance, is not of any mundane perverted quality. Had such things been mundane, a liberated soul like Śukadeva would not have taken the trouble to relish them, nor would Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu have been inclined to participate in those subjects after renouncing worldly life. The stage is earned after many lives of penance.
* Mahaprabhu has displayed the same rasa lila in front of Lord Jagannath along with his associates and has brought reverance to it,