Balaram Jayanti Meditations.

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Nadīyā-Godrume | Balarāma Jayantī | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 11 Aug 2022 by Vaisesika Dasa

Lord Nityānanda’s Vision | Balarāma Jayantī | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 11 Aug 2022 by Vaisesika Dasa

Balarāma Jayantī Meditations | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 11 Aug 2022 by Vaisesika Dasa

..but Mahārāja Pratāparudra said : I don't want anything else

except service to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and if I can't at least come before him and

express my devotion to him then I will give up my kingdom. What's more I would give up my

life. And Prabhupāda comments that , that sense of do or die, I only want this was his

first qualification for Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu giving him his mercy. Second was that ....

(Excerpt from the above talk)

#bhaktiyoga #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #prayersofqueenkunti #devotion

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Through devotional service one can easily please Lord Kṛṣṇa with a leaf of the tulasī plant and a little water. As the Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.26), a leaf, a flower, a fruit or some water (patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyam), when offered with devotion, very much pleases Him. He universally accepts the services of His devotees. Even the poorest of devotees in any part of the world can secure a small flower, fruit or leaf and a little water, and if these offerings, and especially tulasī leaves and Ganges water, are offered to Kṛṣṇa with devotion, He is very satisfied. It is said that Kṛṣṇa is so much pleased by such devotional service that He offers Himself to His devotee in exchange for it.

(CC Ādi 3.107 : https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/3/107/

While in Seattle in the fall of 1968, Śrīla Prabhupāda introduced for the first time this song to be sung during the evening ārati ceremony.

(Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita, Vol Two: https://vedabase.io/en/library/spl/2/gaura-arati/)

When the Lord descends to this material world by His all-merciful energy, He plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to His devotees only, but that is not a fact. Despite such apparent manifestation of partiality, His mercy is equally distributed. In the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra all persons who died in the fight before the presence of the Lord got salvation without the necessary qualifications because death before the presence of the Lord purifies the passing soul from the effects of all sins, and therefore the dying man gets a place somewhere in the transcendental abode. Somehow or other if someone puts himself open in the sun rays, he is sure to get the requisite benefit both by heat and by ultraviolet rays. Therefore, the conclusion is that the Lord is never partial. It is wrong for the people in general to think of Him as partial.

(ŚB 1.8.29 : https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/8/29/)

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