"The noun lila means anything from sport, dalliance, play to any languid or amorous gesture in a woman."

"The slow self-manifesting birth of God in Matter is the purpose of the terrestrial Lila."

"The purpose of creation, is lila. The concept of lila escapes all the traditional difficulties in assigning purpose t…"

"All exists here, no doubt, for the delight of existence, all is a game or Lila; but a game too carries within itself …"

"The world, as God has made it, is not a rigid exercise in logic but, like a strain of music, an infinite harmony of m…"

"Brahman is full of all perfections. And to say that Brahman has some purpose in creating the world will mean that it …"

"The gods themselves had come down and taken birth as men; and when you think of all that took place throughout the wo…"

"What but an unclean mind can see aught that is impure in the child [Krishna] dancing there as lover and beloved? It i…"

"This eternal lila is the eternal truth, and, therefore, its this eternal lila - the playful love-making of Radha and …"

"Therefore, it is that Hinduism calls it all His sport — Lila, or calls it an illusion— Maya."