Srimad Bhagavatam

Innocent Devotion Receives Lord's Infinite Mercy, Krishna Appears In All Forms Simultaneously

📅 February 25, 1977 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 25 min
Innocent faith and sincere devotion receive Krishna's infinite mercy; knowledge comes only through bhakti, not intellectual pursuit.
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Pradyumna: Translation: "When Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva saw the small boy Prahlāda Mahārāja prostrated at the soles of His lotus feet, He became most ecstatic in affection toward His devotee. Raising Prahlāda, the Lord placed His lotus hand upon the boy's head because His hand is always ready to create fearlessness in all of His devotees." Prabhupāda: sva-pāda-mūle patitaṁ tam arbhakaṁ vilokya devaḥ kṛpayā pariplutaḥ utthāpya tac-chīrṣṇy adadhāt karāmbujaṁ kālāhi-vitrasta-dhiyāṁ kṛtābhayam [SB 7.9.5] So to become devotee or favorite to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very easy. It is not at all difficult. Here we see the example, Prahlāda Mahārāja, a five-year-old boy...

Where is the difficulty? Simply one must have the sense that "Here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa or Nṛsiṁhadeva or any one of His multi-expansions." In the śāstra it is said, advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam [Bs 5.33]. Kṛṣṇa has ananta-rūpam. Therefore every rupa is expansion of Kṛṣṇa's original rūpa.

The original rūpa is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]. Then there are so many rūpas: Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, Balarāma, Paraśurāma, Mīna, Tortoise, Nṛsiṁhadeva. Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan [Bs 5.39]. He's always existing with different forms, not that He is existing only in Kṛṣṇa form.

Every form, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu. The same example, as we have given many times: just like the sun, time of sun, twenty-four hours, so out of the twenty-four hours or twenty-four incarnations, any time is present. It is not that now it is, say, eight o'clock, then seven o'clock is finished. No.

There is seven o'clock in any other part of the world. Or nine o'clock. Nine o'clock is also present. Twelve o'clock is also present.

We have got one watch given by Gurukṛpa Mahārāja. [laughter] He has brought from Japan. It is very nice. Immediately you can see what is the time now in different places—immediately.

So all of them are existing. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's līlā is called nitya-līlā, not that one līlā is going on, other līlā is finished, no. Everything is existing simultaneous. Therefore this word is used, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu.

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