{"id":75883,"date":"2025-08-30T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=75883"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:02:46","slug":"such-is-the-lords-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/such-is-the-lords-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Such is the Lord\u2019s Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Devotees see any difficulties they may undergo as just a token of their karma, to remind them and impel them on.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a beautiful verse in the Srimad Bhagavatam<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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What we are talking about is a revolution in consciousness that brings about a change in the way we view the world. No longer just about I, me and mine but Krsna centered. Which includes everyone else, as we are all His parts and parcels.\u00a0 For this we need to seek out the company of spiritual personalities who are wise in this science and study the sacred literature such as Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally Gajendra, in his hour of need, got the Lord\u2019s attention through his prayer while offering a lotus from the water. The Supreme Lord riding on His bird carrier, Garuda, severed the crocodile\u2019s head with His Sudarshan disc and lifted Gajendra free.\u00a0 Gajendra attained a spiritual form like that of the Lord\u2019s and returned to the spiritual world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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NB:<\/span><\/p>\n

The crocodile had been the Gandharva King, Huhu, in his previous life and while sporting in the water with women had pulled the leg of Devala Rsi who was bathing there. The Rsi became angry and cursed the King to become a crocodile. The king was sorry and begged pardon from the sage who, out of compassion, gave him the benediction to be delivered by the Lord when He came to save Gajendra the elephant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the Lord\u2019s mercy and that of His devotees.<\/span><\/p>\n



\nThis is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devotees see any difficulties they may undergo as just a token of their karma, to remind them and impel them on. There is a beautiful verse in the Srimad Bhagavatam: \u00a0 \u201cMy dear Lord, one who … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":75884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-75883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-brilliant-as-the-sun-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 10:50:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}