CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE<\/p>\n
Ways of Meeting K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a<\/p>\n
When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and His devotees meet, the meeting is technically called yoga, or linking up with the Lord. Such meetings between K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and His devotees can be divided into three classes \u2013 namely, perfection, satisfaction and steadiness.<\/p>\n
When the devotee meets with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a in great eagerness, that state of meeting is called perfection. In the K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-kar\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta, Bilvama\u1e45gala \u1e6ch\u0101kura describes how K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a meets His devotee \u2013 with peacock feather on His head, with marakata jewels on His chest and with His ever-enchanting smile, His restless eyes and His very delicate body.<\/p>\n
In the Tenth Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, thirty-eighth chapter, verse 34, \u015aukadeva Gosv\u0101m\u012b tells King Par\u012bk\u1e63it, \u201cMy dear King, as soon as Akr\u016bra the chariot driver saw Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and His elder brother Balar\u0101ma in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, he immediately got down from the chariot and, being greatly afflicted by affection for the transcendental Lord, fell down upon His lotus feet to offer respectful obeisances.\u201d These are some of the instances of perfectional meetings with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n
When a devotee meets K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a after long separation, the meeting is one of satisfaction. In the First Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, eleventh chapter, verse 10, it is stated that when Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a returned to His capital, Dv\u0101rak\u0101, the inhabitants said, \u201cDear Lord, if You remain in foreign countries for so long, we shall certainly be bereft of seeing Your smiling face! Upon observing Your face, we, Your eternal servitors, become greatly satisfied. All the anxieties of our existence are immediately mitigated. If we cannot see You because You are long absent from Dv\u0101rak\u0101, then it will be impossible for us to live anymore.\u201d This is an instance of satisfaction in meeting K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a after long separation.<\/p>\n
K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s personal servant, D\u0101ruka, seeing K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a at the door of Dv\u0101rak\u0101, forgot to offer Him respects with folded hands.<\/p>\n
When a devotee is ultimately situated in association with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, his position is called steadiness in devotional service. This steady position in devotional service is explained in the book known as Ha\u1e41sa-d\u016bta. It is described there how Akr\u016bra, who was considered by the gop\u012bs to be terror personified, would talk with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a about the activities of the Kuru dynasty. A similar steady position was held by Uddhava, the disciple of B\u1e5bhaspati. He would always massage the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a while kneeling down on the ground before Him.<\/p>\n
When a devotee is engaged in the service of the Lord, he is said to have reached the attainment of yoga. The English equivalent of the word yoga is \u201clinking up.\u201d So actual linking up with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, begins when the devotee renders service unto Him. Devotees situated in the transcendental rasa of servitorship render their particular service whenever there is an opportunity. Sometimes they sit down in front of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a to receive orders. Some persons are reluctant to accept this level of devotional service as actual bhakti-yoga, and in some of the Pur\u0101\u1e47as also this servitorship in devotional service to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is not accepted as the actual bhakti-yoga system. But \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam has clearly indicated that the servitor relationship with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the actual beginning of yoga realization.<\/p>\n
In the Eleventh Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, third chapter, verse 32, it is stated that when devotees are engaged in the discharge of bhakti-yoga, sometimes they cry from thinking of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, sometimes they laugh, sometimes they become jubilant and sometimes they talk in very uncommon ways. Sometimes they dance, sometimes they sing, sometimes they are actually engaged in the service of the Lord, and sometimes they sit down silently as if absorbed in trance.<\/p>\n
Similarly, in the Seventh Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, chapter seven, verse 34, Prahl\u0101da Mah\u0101r\u0101ja says to his friends, \u201cMy dear friends, as soon as pure devotees of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a hear of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord, who is the eternal reservoir of pastimes, or hear about His transcendental qualities, they become overpowered with jubilation. Ecstatic symptoms are manifested in their bodies. They shed tears, talk falteringly, glorify the Lord in a loud voice and chant and dance in ecstasy. These ecstasies are always there, but sometimes they overcome all limits, and the symptoms become manifest to all.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the process of surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead there are six items: to accept everything favorable for devotional service, to reject everything unfavorable for devotional service, to believe that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a will always give protection, to identify oneself with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s devotees, always to feel inability without the help of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and always to think oneself inferior to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, even though one may have full capacity to perform something on his own. When one is substantially convinced that he is always protected by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a in all circumstances, that feeling is called reverential devotion. Reverential devotion is executed in relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and with His other protected devotees.<\/p>\n
When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was residing in Dv\u0101rak\u0101, some of the elderly members of the Yadu family would occasionally put some important matter before Him. At such a time, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a would carefully give attention to those matters. And if there were some humorous topics mentioned, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a would immediately respond with a smiling face. Sometimes when K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was executing His duties in the assembly known as Sudharm\u0101, He would ask the elderly members for good advice. By such activities He is manifest as the supreme spiritual master, the supreme executive head, the superior intelligence and the supreme power, protector and maintainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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