As a person, the Lord has different pastimes. We should understand that when a Deity appears before our vision, He is manifesting His eternal pastimes before us. His lila is going on. We may not have vision to see, but we must understand that this eternal lila is eternally manifest--that every moment the Lord is engaged in His eternal pastimes. So when we are worshiping the Deities, we must understand that we are plugging into Their lila. Their lila is going on eternally. It's not that the Deities are simply on the altar and when we want to have a kirtan or when we want to eat prasadam, we plug them into our lila.
March 17, 1993, Minsk