L.59 - Lord's Special Mercy - ŚB 10.14.

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Synopsis:
A. Pure devotional service is very, very rare.

B. Who is eligible to enter into Spiritual world?

C. The consciouness of a Sincere Devotee when he meets difficulties.

D. The consciouness of a Insincere Devotee when he meets difficulties.

E. Why Krsna took everything from Pandavas for 14 years?

F. What is the problem? What is first and most important of all necessities ?

G. Mandatory duties for a Grihasta.

H. ŚB 10.88.8 verse in Prabhupada's life pastime

I. King and minister story to understand ŚB 10.14.8

J. If we are sincere, whatever situation we are in is the perfect arrangement of

Krsna

K. Either you accept everything as Krsna's mercy or you must accept that nothing
is Krsna's mercy.

L. When can we actually hear Krishna-Lila ?

M. Why Distresses are greatest benediction?

N. Prabhupada's pastime of taking Sannyasa.

O. Q - Many sanyasis, Brahmacharis and others are given life to KC and they are
also following whatever Prabhupada is saying. But we couldn't find a single
person like Prabhuapada who could do the same thing the way prabhupada
has done in a such a short span of time. So what is the problem in us? I'm not
saying about the material success of constructing 120 temples or as such. But
the spiritual advancement which Prabhupada did in such a short span of time.
Whats the problem in us? Why we are not able to do the same thing? Whats
lacking in us? although we are following him.

P. How do we know that it's God's mercy or it's because of our own neglect and
laziness, because of being complacent?

Q. This verse is the foremost jewel of all the verses

A. Pure devotional service is very, very rare.

1. Lord Brahmaji in this most glorious jewel of a verse is explaining in his prayers to
the Lord, who it is that is qualified for liberation into the Kingdom of God.

2. And as we can see, pure devotional service is not given for any small price.

3. Srila Rupa Goswami, as mentioned in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu that

pure devotional service is very, very rare. There is nothing so difficult to achieve.

4. It is said in the Bhagavatam that.

muktānām api siddhānāṁ nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇaḥ su-durlabhaḥ praśāntātmā koṭiṣv api
mahā-mune - ŚB 6.14.5
out of many persons who have attained the stage of mukti, and out of many, many
persons who have attained all the great mystic perfections. su-durlabhaḥ, it is very,
very rare to find even one nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇaḥ, one pure devotee of Narayana.

5. But such a person, only the selfless, causeless servant of Lord Narayana, is
peaceful, because he alone has achieved his natural, original, constitutional
position.

6. Lord Caitanya has said,

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye
udaya - CC Madhya 22.107
that pure love of God, pure devotion is within the heart of everyone. By chanting
God's names, Hare Krishna... and by serving Guru and the Vaishnavas, that is all
that is required to awaken that natural love within our heart.

B. Who is eligible to enter into Spiritual world?

1. In fact, Locchandas Thakur has said,

parama koruna, pahu dui jana nitai gauracandra saba avatara-sara siromani kevala
ananda-kanda
that the process of Krishna consciousness is simply joyful. Chanting, dancing, taking
nice Krishna prasad. Why is it that it's so rare?

2. Here we find the answer to this question.

Because while engaging in the process of devotional service, chanting the holy
names, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam arcanaṁ vandanaṁ
dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam - ŚB 7.5.23

3. While engaging in these nine processes of devotional service, beginning with

hearing and chanting, such a simple, wonderful process, sufferings will come upon
you.

4. They must come upon you for our purification, by the will of the Lord.

5. and one who, in the face of these difficulties is able to thank Krishna, to be grateful
to Krishna and offer obeisances with one's heart, with one's words and with one's
body. Only such a person is eligible to enter into the supreme abode of the Lord.

C. The consciouness of a Sincere Devotee when he meets

difficulties.
1. Srila Rupa Goswami in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu explains in these six principles of
surrender, to always depend exclusively on Krishna and to receive whatever comes
into our life as His mercy.

2. A devotee knows out of his humility that,

" in this life and in so many previous lives, I have been so sinful. I have committed
so many offenses to the Lord, so many offenses to other living beings, so many
offenses to my own soul. And therefore, for what I have done, I deserve to be cast
into the lowest, most degraded, hellish conditions imaginable. I do not deserve
even a human life. I deserve to be burning in the flames of hell. I deserve to be
struggling in the animal species."

3. Every sincere devotee feels this way about himself.

How can we not?
The Lord is giving us everything, and He's been giving us everything since time
immemorial. and we have been moment after moment, birth after birth, just
trampling on his head. spitting on his mercy, neglecting with an ungrateful heart
everything he is doing.

4. for a devotee with a sincere heart to forget Krishna even for a second. He feels
that he deserves to be cast into the lowest position of suffering.

5. Therefore, when suffering comes upon a devotee, a devotee considers,

" my Lord Sri Krishna, my beloved Sri Radharani. They are so merciful. They are so
kind. They are minimizing all the sufferings I deserve to only this much, only a little
particle."

6. knowing that this is the mercy of the Lord for our purification. Such a devotee is
grateful.

D. The consciouness of a Insincere Devotee when he meets

difficulties.

1. An insincere person,
when suffering comes, he complains,
"I am Krishna's devotee, why is he doing this for me? I have surrendered my life, I
have given up so much for him, he is the supreme controller, why is this happening
to me? Why am I suffering? Why am I losing respectability? Why am I losing all my
wealth? Why am I losing everything? "

E. Why Krsna took everything from Pandavas for 14 years?

1. Actually Maharaj Yudhishthira at one point was thinking like this (like an insincere
devotee, the above point) .
He was such a devotee, he never even in his mind even considered from the day of
his birth any immoral activity. and he was cent percent surrendered to Lord Sri
Krishna. And so were all of his brothers, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva.

2. But yet, Krishna, he put them in that burning house in Varnataka where they barely
escaped for their life.
fed his brother Bhima deadly poison.
Krishna allowed these things to happen?
He is Sarveshwareshwara. He is the controller of all controllers. Not even a blade
of grass can move without his sanction.

3. And then Krishna allowed this evil-minded Shakuni to assist Duryodhana in the
gambling match and cheat them. And right before their eyes, seeing the
embarrassment of Draupadi, who is the most chaste and virtuous of all ladies.
She didn't deserve that, such humiliation.

4. And then they were banished into the forest, where they lost all their wealth, all
their kingdom, all their prestige, all their respectability. They lost everything, and
they had to be hiding like criminals, disguising themselves, Begging for food.
Krishna took away absolutely everything from them, not just for a few minutes,
but for fourteen long years.

5. And Yudhisthira, was thinking,

" we have surrendered everything to you. You are the husband of the goddess of
fortune. Instead of giving, you've taken everything. You've left us nothing. "

6. And Krishna spoke to Maharaj Yudhisthira.

yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ - ŚB 10.88.8

○ " When I am merciful to my devotee, I give my devotee everything my devotee

wants. "

○ " But when I show my supreme compassion upon my devotee, I take everything
away. I take away all of his wealth. I turn his family members against him. I turn
the whole society against him. People blaspheme him, spit on him, care nothing
for him. and then my devotee with a humble heart turns to me, knowing there
is no one else to go to, seeking my mercy as his only refuge in life. That is my
compassion. That is my mercy."

F. What is the problem? What is first and most important of

all necessities ?

Srila Prabhupada meeting his Guru Maharaj pastime

1. Bhaktisiddhanta gave him an instruction right then,

" you are an intelligent young man. You should spread the glories of Lord
Caitanya's teachings in the English language all over the world."

2. And our Srila Prabhupada was thinking,

" what is this? I do not even know the sadhu. I've never seen him before. And he's
giving me a lifelong mission? "
Anyways,
he presented certain arguments. At that time he was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
" How can we do this? First, this is a luxury. This spreading of God-consciousness is a
luxury. The first thing is we must get independence from the British. "

3. And Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur told him that,

○ " politics are always changing. One party, another party, another party, another
party. And with all the changes of all the politicians, what benefits does the
world experience? "

○ " The first and most important of all necessities, is the need to love Kṛṣṇa. It is
the only single problem in the whole creation is a lack of Krishna
consciousness. and it is an emergency."

○ " No matter who's in power, still you have to grow old, get diseased and die.
That's the problem. And unless you become Krishna conscious in this life, your
human life is wasted. That is the problem. "

○ " Therefore now there is an urgent emergency need To spread the glories of
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching throughout the world. "

G. Mandatory duties for a Grihasta.

1. So Srila Prabhupada was convinced. But at the same time he just had his first child,
he was married. But after that he was always anxious in his Grihasta ashram,

○ to come and see his Gurudeva.

○ And to whatever money he could get, he would give to his Gurudeva's

missions.

○ He would always be associating with his godbrothers. Most of them were

sannyasis and brahmacharis.

○ And he was always having kirtan with them and discussing Bhagavatam with
them.

○ And he was always helping them in their preaching.

○ In fact, When he was doing business here in Bombay, he established with two
of his godbrothers the first Gaudiya Math temple here in Bombay.

2. So he was always anxious to help. But at the same time he had other
responsibilities.
But in his heart he was always simply learning, longing, longing and longing,
aspiring to just give up all these things and just do his guru's work. Nothing else.

H. ŚB 10.88.8 verse in Prabhupada's life pastime

Pastime of Prabhupada's difficulties and then how he

started preaching

1. So at one time, his whole business failed.

○ Although he was trying very hard, it just was a complete failure.

○ And his family members were all complaining to him,

○ and his wife didn't want to help him with his preaching at all. She just wanted to
live a comfortable life and be a pious devotee of Krishna.
She didn't want to help others in any way.

○ She didn't want to make sacrifices. Children also. They were not interested.

○ and he lost practically all of his money, some reversal in his business.

2. Now an ordinary materialistic man would be in great anxiety,

but Srila Prabhupada was in ecstasy. When all of this happened, he chanted this
sloka,
yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ - ŚB 10.88.8

3. When Krishna shows his supreme compassion upon his devotee, he takes
everything away so he has nothing else to turn to except Krishna. So Guru Maharaj
simply left his wife, left his family, went to Vrindavan. Vrindavan Dham ki Jai !

4. And there, although he had nothing,

he had one great treasure, the determination to serve his Guru Maharaj. and he
remained in Vrindavan for about six years. And then, when he was 70 years old, he
decided,
" now, before I die, I must do my Guru's mission. "

5. Srila Prabhupada used to tell us that,

" when I was leaving my home I was thinking how will I live without my children?
But now he has given me tens and thousands of children, much better than my
other children. "

6. In this way, He was very anxious to teach us this particular verse that,
we should know that Krishna's mercy and His love is behind everything that
happens in our life. And sometimes to illustrate this point, our Guru Maharaj used
to tell a story.

I. King and minister story to understand ŚB 10.14.8

1. That one time there was a king and he had a prime minister. And this prime minister
was a very, very great devotee of Lord Krishna.

2. So, Whenever anything happened in the king's life, the minister would always give
him the same analysis,
" that this is Krishna's mercy. Just remember Krishna."
For every situation, he would just tell him that.

3. So one time. The King, he was out. and he was hunting or something, and somehow
or other he cut off his finger by accident. So the king was very angry, very upset. And
he came to his minister and said,

○ King - " why? Why did this happen to me? I'm such a pious king. What did I do
wrong? "

○ Minister - " Because it is Krishna's mercy."

○ King - " What kind of nonsense is this? Krishna's mercy. My finger get cut off?
This is blasphemy. You're saying this is the will of God? You go to jail. "

So he put the prime minister in jail. Prime minister went to jail and was
thinking,

○ Minister - " this is also Krishna's mercy."

4. So then the king was out and another, he installed another person who was always
envious of this other minister. he made him the prime minister in his place. And they
went out hunting again. And when they were in a hunting expedition, somehow or
other the king and his prime minister, they went out some ways away from others,
and a band of Dacoities captured them. and they were worshippers of Kali Mata.
And they wanted to perform a human sacrifice. So they took the king, and they
decided,

○ Dacoities - " oh, this will be very pleasing to Kali to offer a king to her. "

So they gave him a ceremonial bath. and they decorated him with all nice
garlands and all nice silken clothes and then they put nice sandalwood pulp on
him and then they took him before the goddess Kali and put his head on the
chopping block and there was a man there with a big axe and he was ready to
cut off his head and the king was trembling in fear but then the high priest, he
noticed that half of his thumb was cut off he said,

○ Priest - " huh? We cannot offer this man. He is imperfect. Only a perfect man,
only a whole human being can be offered to Kali. He is not a whole. He had
something missing, half of his thumb. So therefore release him."

But then they took his prime minister. He had all his fingers. So the priest said,

○ Priest - " ah, he is a good man."

So they put him on the chopping block and cut off his head. he was dead.

5. So the king was released. So the king was thinking, my minister was right.
" It was Krishna's mercy that my thumb was cut off. Because if my thumb was not
cut off, my head would have been cut off. So great mercy. "

6. So he went back to the minister, and he just went to the jail cell and offered his
dandavats, and said,

○ " I'm very sorry, you were correct, it was Krishna's mercy. Otherwise I would
have been killed, please come back and be my prime minister."

So he came back. But then the king asked the prime minister,

○ " but I have one question about this mercy of Krishna you're talking about.
yes, I can understand how it was mercy to me that this thumb cutting of saved
my life. Krishna knows past, present and future but why did Krishna allowed me
to treat you so unfairly to put you in jail? "

○ And the minister said that was really Krishna's mercy because
" if I was with you I would have gotten my head cut off."

J. If we are sincere, whatever situation we are in is the

perfect arrangement of Krsna

1. So in this way a devotee has complete faith that whatever comes into our life,
really and truly, it is the absolute best thing possible for our own Krishna
consciousness.

2. IF WE ARE SINCERE, we should know whatever situation we are in is the perfect

arrangement of God for us to become pure in our devotional service.

3. If we simply are sincere, - if we simply deal with each situation according to the
instructions of Guru and the Vaishnavas. To never act independently.

4. So a devotee with this faith, it is explained, he earnestly waits for the causeless
mercy of the Lord upon him.

K. Either you accept everything as Krsna's mercy or you must

accept that nothing is Krsna's mercy.

1. A devotee never complains. Why is this happening to me? Complaining means to

be ungrateful.

2. A devotee glorifies God in every situation of life. and thanks God for every
moment of life, however it may appear.

3. Because factually, if you're not willing to receive with a grateful heart the mercy
that comes in the form of suffering and pain, then you will not be able, you will be
unable to receive that mercy of the Lord when it comes in joy.

4. Either you accept everything as Krishna's mercy, or you must accept that nothing is
Krishna's mercy. Because Krishna is perfect and complete.

5. A devotee does not thank God for some things and complain to God about other
things. That means he's ultimately ungrateful for everything.

6. We must thank God for everything. However it appears, it is his love. It is his
mercy. because we still have some fragments of material desire left in our heart,
Krishna has to burn those away by putting us in distressful conditions.

L. When can we actually hear Krishna-Lila ?

1. In fact, our own Guru Maharaj, Srila Prabhupada, he would so much love to glorify
the wonderful Leela of Vrindavan. but so often he would explain to us the miseries
of material world. And he was saying,

" for a neophyte devotee it is equally important to hear the miseries of material life
as it is to hear the glories of Krishna-Lila."

2. Because until we are convinced that this material place is a place of suffering, it is
a place we do not want to be, we cannot really hear the Lila of Vrindavan.
We're hearing but we're not hearing. We're hearing but our mind is still thinking,
" oh, if I only had this and I only had this and I only had this. "

3. When we realize the miseries of material existence. When we hear the lila of
Brajabhumi , we take shelter of it. We long for it.

4. But as long as we're still attached to material life, when we hear those lila, it is just
like a form of entertainment. Like people going to the cinema.
There's purification. But the purification comes to the extent that we're taking
refuge, that we're seeking shelter in Krishna's Lila, we're seeking shelter in
Krishna's name.

M. Why Distresses are greatest benediction?

1. That is why we have to suffer in this world. Because if everything was always very
nice in this world, we would just,
" oh yes, Krishna is very nice, oh yes, his name is very nice, yes, his Leela is very
nice."

2. But when we are in a suffering condition, we are just thirsting for the mercy of the
Lord. We're weeping and crying for his mercy. We're taking refuge and shelter in
his name, in his pastimes. There's nothing else. There's nowhere else to go.

3. Therefore the distresses that come into our life are really the greatest benediction.
because they force us with feeling and intense urgency to cry out Krishna's name.

4. Draupadi was always chanting Krishna's name. But when her chastity was about to
be spoiled, and Dushyasana was pulling her robe,
she wasn't just chanting Krishna's name. She was crying out,
" Hey Krishna! Hey Govinda! "
and Krishna appeared to save her. by incarnating as an unlimited sari.

5. Draupadi was put in the most terrible possible suffering a woman could be in. To
lose her life was not difficult, but to lose her chastity was worse and more painful
than death.

6. we find throughout history, Krishna puts his devotees often in the most difficult
suffering conditions.
And if we are insincere, we say
" Krishna, If this is what kind of God you are, I'll worship someone else."

7. And if we're sincere, if we're actually sincere... then when the sufferings come, we
will think,
" Oh Krishna, how merciful, how kind. Now you are making me quite aware that I
have no one but you to take shelter of. That this body, this world, I care nothing for
any of it. I am seeking shelter of the spiritual world."

8. and this patience and this faith and this gratitude, in the execution of our spiritual
activities, it is explained here, is the price for entrance into the divine lila of the
Lord.
tat te ’nukampāṁ su-samīkṣamāṇo bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam hṛd-vāg-
vapurbhir vidadhan namas te jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk - ŚB 10.14.8

N. Prabhupada's pastime of taking Sannyasa.

1. So finally he said, All right,
" if that is the will of my Godbrothers and that is the will of my Guru Maharaj, I will
take sannyasa. "

2. So he took sannyas. He took these sacred vows. And the day he took sannyas, he
was walking down the road in Vrindavan and a big, big bull came up to him and
took the horn and stabbed Gurudev in the stomach and knocked him to the
ground.

3. He was an old man, and he was laying on the side of the road, in the dirt, in the, in
the, in the, laying just, laying there helplessly in tremendous pain. And he was
thinking,

" huh, just see how merciful Lord Krishna is, that I surrender to him and now he is
rewarding me."

4. Do you understand?
You're thinking if you surrender, something like taking sannyas, such a big
surrender, you'll get some adorations, people will give you garlands. Krishna just
threw them in the gutter. and used one of his Bulls.

5. Prabhupada was thinking, ah, Krishna is very merciful.

O. Q - Many sanyasis, Brahmacharis and others are given life

to KC and they are also following whatever Prabhupada is
saying. But we couldn't find a single person like
Prabhuapada who could do the same thing the way
prabhupada has done in a such a short span of time. So
what is the problem in us? I'm not saying about the
material success of constructing 120 temples or as such.
But the spiritual advancement which Prabhupada did in
such a short span of time. Whats the problem in us? Why
we are not able to do the same thing? Whats lacking in
us? although we are following him.
1. You should not try to judge others, but... To the extent we surrender to Krishna, to
that extent he empowers us.

2. we can never understand, but we can get some little glimpse to the extent that
Prabhupada surrenders his entire life to his Gurudeva and Krishna and to that
extent how much he was empowered to do so many wonderful things in such a
short amount of time.

3. Prabhupada never claimed that anything was his. He never felt it was his mission,
he never felt it was his disciples, he never felt it was his temples.

4. He felt it was all the property of his Guru Maharaj, and he was simply the humble
servant. That was always his consciousness, and that was the consciousness that
he always taught us to have in every circumstance in life.

P. How do we know that it's God's mercy or it's because of

our own neglect and laziness, because of being
complacent?
1. It's God's mercy either way.
If you neglect it, it's God's mercy to show you that,
" you shouldn't be so neglectful, rascal. "

2. And if you do it nicely, it's God's mercy to show you that... Maybe he wants you to
renounce all of these things and do something. Everything is Krishna's mercy.

3. But if you do nonsense, don't blame Krishna.

4. If you perform sinful activities and you get a reaction, you should understand it is
the mercy of God is to punish me, to teach me to never do it again.

5. But if you're working with all of your might and it still fails. Then you should
understand it's God's mercy that,
"whatever I do, I should just do it for Him and not be attached to the results."

6. There is something to learn in every situation of the Lord in Krishna's arrangement.

but not a blade of grass moves without the sanction of Krishna. And everything
that he gives to his devotee is out of love and mercy.

7. And if you are living in Barasana Dham, you should know everything is Radharani's
grace. And her grace is that she has sent these illustrious effulgent Brijavasis to
show us the path of real devotion. That is really the mercy of Sri Radharani.
And we are so thankful. Jai Shri Radhe!

Q. This verse is the foremost jewel of all the verses

Hayagriva Prabhu's pastime of ŚB 10.14.8

1. Devotee -
We are talking about Prabhupada of course, but even in more recent time our
Hayagriva, who had some desires that he had a hard time giving up, that Krishna
helped him so much by giving him cancer. And I remember being in his room one
day and he told me, he said,

" I cannot even think of any form of sense gratification."

So he had quite a hard time controlling his senses,

but by Krishna's arrangement, he got a complete distaste for any kind of sense
gratification before leaving his body. And just because he rendered some service
that was pleasing to his spiritual master, he got such mercy.

2. One of our Guru Maharaj's first disciples, his name is Hayagriva Das. He met Srila
Prabhupada in New York City in 1966. and he helped him in so many ways. He was a
professor of English. So Srila Prabhupada was writing translations and commentaries
for Srimad Bhagavatam and he was helping edit the work so it would be in a type of
English that people can understand nicely. So he helped in many ways. But because
of his past, he was very much addicted to sense enjoyment. So although he was
trying to serve his Gurudeva, the sinful desires just kept overwhelming him. And
ultimately he left the temple, he left Guru's seva, and he was performing many,
many sinful activities. Many sinful activities. But Srila Prabhupada, he would always
lovingly ask, How is our higher grieve? He would hardly even come to see Guru
Maharaj because he was so ashamed.

3. He was so ashamed that,

" Guru Maharaj is given me so much and what am I doing in return? Simply
enjoying my senses. I cannot stop it. "
And he was doing abominable things.
But then just a few years back...

4. All of a sudden, he was here in India. He was at Goa, living on a beach in Goa,
enjoying his senses. And he started getting terrible pains in his back. So he went
back to America and he saw a doctor and he told him that you have cancer of the
back and you have only a few months to live then you will die.

5. At first, he was terrified that my life is about to end. I'm in such pain, terrible pain.
Why is this happening to me? But then by Guru's grace, he had a realization that
this is Krishna's mercy. This is the only possible way I would be able to give up
sense gratification and take complete shelter of Krishna.

6. So he went to New Vrindavan. In there he spent day and night just hearing the
Bhagavatam and chanting the holy name of Krishna.

7. And when Shivaling Prabhu was explaining, and I also have personal experience, I
would spend hours with him. He would just be crying tears, saying,
" I have no regret. I am not sorry at all that I have this cancer. I'm thanking
Krishna. If Krishna gave me any less pain, or any more time to live, I would have
continued to waste my life. This is the perfect remedy for all of my disease. My only
regret is that so much of my time that I could have served my Gurudeva and helped
his mission, I wasted in sense enjoyment. That is the only regret I have in my life."

8. And he was thanking Krishna and thanking Guru Maharaj for giving him this most
wonderful benediction. He said, this is the greatest thing that ever happened in my
life, that I got this cancer. And he was thankful. He was a personification of this
verse.
tat te ’nukampāṁ su-samīkṣamāṇo bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam hṛd-vāg-
vapurbhir vidadhan namas te jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk - ŚB 10.14.8

9. He was, he could not walk. He could not sit. He was just laying in a bed in so much
pain. Terrible, terrible pain. For months. And he was just all day, Hare Krishna Hare
Krshna... and just begging the devotees, Come, recite Bhagavatam to me.

10. And day and night, practically always, there were just tears in his eyes, and he was
with folded palms thanking Krishna. Thank you so much for putting me in this
situation. This is your causeless mercy. Let me always remember you. and he
perfected his life. He left his body in the association of devotees chanting the holy
names of the Lord.

11. Bhagavatam Shukadeva Goswami says, What is the use of having a long, long life
wasted in material consciousness? Better to live for one moment in consciousness of
Krishna. when Maharaj Pariksit was cursed to die in seven days. He was a young
man. He understood this verse. With folded palms he was thanking Krishna. Thank
you for this benediction. In this seven days let me sit at the lotus feet of Shukadeva
Goswami and hear the Bhagavatam.

12. and Shukadev Goswami and all the great saints, all the sadhus assembled, they all
accepted that Maharaj Pariksit was most fortunate for having been cursed to die in
seven days. It was not a curse, it was a blessing. because he took it as God's mercy
in those seven days he perfected his life.

13. this verse is really the foremost jewel of all verses because through understanding
this verse alone and applying it to our life, we will become perfect. Perfect
devotees of Radhagopinath.