How does understanding Krishna’s greatness and sweetness bring submission and affection respectively?

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so how does understanding greatness lead to submission and how does understanding sweetness lead to affection see submission comes when we feel that somebody is worth submitting to say if somebody is playing cricket and another player comes along and says you are batting like this, don’t stand like this stretch your legs like this, raise your bat like this who are you to tell me but if say somebody like Sachin Tendulkar comes and tells us stand like this he is a great batsman he is telling me he has experience, he has expertise must be some reason at least we will be submissive we will ask, why are you telling like this how will this help and we will be willing to learn so basically submission means that we are ready to take instruction we are ready to take guidance we are ready to mould ourselves according to what somebody else is telling us and that submission comes when we understand the greatness of that person so similarly when we understand Krishna’s greatness when we understand that Krishna is the wisest of all wise people in fact whatever wisdom I have whatever intelligence I have, that also has come from Krishna then if Krishna is giving us some guidance and instruction, we will be willing to take that so appreciating Krishna’s greatness gives us reason to be submissive to him because we understand he is far more wiser than me he is far more experienced than me he is far more expert than me he sees much further than me so therefore this is how understanding his greatness brings submission and as far as understanding sweetness is concerned see normally our emotions, the personal emotions we feel when we see somebody as a person say for example we may see the Prime Minister of India and the Prime Minister of India is a very powerful person and if he is a very powerful person we have some veneration, some respect for that person but then if he is the Prime Minister of India he goes to his home and he bows down to his mother and he takes the blessings of his mother then we see what we don’t see him just as a powerful as a powerful entity we see him as a loving person and that also increases our affection he is also a person so like that when we see Krishna not just as God so for example when we understand that somebody is a judge when people go to a judge and they say his excellency, his honour they are very respectful because the judge, so much power is there in the judge’s hands judge can decide anything when a person is in the court do they feel love for the judge feel respect for the judge so by knowing the position of the judge what happens is, submission comes yes, I should be respectful this judge has tremendous power, what that judge decides can shape or shatter my life, I should be submissive but then if you see the judge not in the court setting but you see the judge at home maybe playing he has become a carrier horse for his grandchild and babo babo and he is running he is such a loving person that brings some warmth to the heart that brings affection so like that when we see Krishna in Vrindavan you know Krishna plays with the Gopas and sometimes in the game when he is defeated the Gopas say now Krishna you have to carry us and Krishna carries so when Brahmaji he saw that Krishna and the Gopas they would play with each other and they would see what is there in each other’s tiffin so they would see and they would eat and Krishna would take sometimes something from the other’s tiffin so once Madhumangal had brought some charch which was not so good he was from poor family he thought this is not really good for Krishna so he went to a secret place and he was drinking it all Krishna said hey Madhumangal what are you drinking alone he came there and Madhumangal was anxious he wanted to drink it, he drank all of it in a big gulp and then he drank all of it in a big gulp and what happened if you drink too much water our jaws swell up our cheeks swell up, so Krishna came and what Krishna did was he slapped his cheeks and then it all came out and it fell on Krishna’s hands and Krishna started picking it up and drinking it licking it and when Brahmaji saw this he got a culture shock he said how can this is God how can he eat this normally when you offer something to God, we couldn’t offer even Jhuta to God here what to speak of something just came out of the mouth and God is drinking it, it is good digestive but that is Krishna’s sweetness so we understand this is how Krishna loves his devotees that brings affection so by by understanding the sweetness aspect of Krishna there is affection that comes by understanding his greatness aspect the submission comes