Bhagavatam-daily 12 – 11.07.02 – Krishna is the object of prayers for everyone – even those who are the object of prayers

From other people to the lord and delight therein thank you so here krishna is speaking to uddhava and he’s stating that i have accomplished within this world krishna does not belong to this world but he has descended here and for what purpose devakaryam for the work of the devatas devatas had called him saying that there are too many demons disrupting the order of the world so please my lord descend so now i have completed the work and nothing is remaining with artham avatirnoham the purpose for which i had descended so who had called me then described so i had come with my amisha that is balramji brahmana refers to brahmaji he had he was a distress he was he had asked me to come so krishna is transcendental to the material world in the sense that he exists in his own abode but the same time although he is transcendental he is not unsympathetic hard-hearted or unconcerned about what happens in this world and for the normal administration of the world he creates a system of the demigods and empowers them adequately to take care of the world without his intervention of course krishna is always present as a super soul and ultimately he is the doer of everything even the actions of the demigods but that is from a perspective of krishna being the ultimate doer of everything but from the from a deeper spiritual perspective but from the way it appears in this world those who are expected to certain things they are given the power to do these things by krishna and that’s how the world is managed you know expert management it is said means that everything is managed well and nobody seems to be worrying about the management so krishna does that kind of management where he can stay invisible and his representatives can do the work but sometimes emergencies arise and during those emergencies those who are the objects of prayer in this world have to become the subjects of prayer that means those to whom prayers are directed often in this world that is the demigods who are prayed to by the people of the people of earth those demigods they have to offer prayers they have to beg for the help of the supreme lord so brahmaji we know from the seventh kanto how hiranyakashipu from such huge incredible austerities to please brahmaji and get powers for him and brahma was pleased and brahma did give him powers the point is that these are examples which show that actually the demigods are the recipients of prayer in this world and krishna has arranged it to be like that but still times come in this world when they can no longer be recipients of the prayers alone because those who are dependent on them their problems become so much that so big that they become problems not just for the dependents they become problems even for the protectors of the dependents and by this the whole universal order gets threatened and at that time the demigods realize that we can’t do it ourselves and then they prayed the supreme lord so this is the nature of the material world that even the protectors are in need of protection and at that time the one who offers protection is the supreme protector that is krishna so now when krishna is telling over here that i have completed i have finished completely the work of the gods now we may say that actually kalyuga is going to start and things are going to become so terrible so how can krishna say that he has completed the work of the gods isn’t it if krishna had been present now it would have been so much better isn’t it yes you can always say that krishna’s presence would make things better but then this world is created for those souls who don’t want krishna’s presence and krishna gives them room facility to act according to their desires and that’s why he keeps himself low profile almost invisible in this world but of course they have to the living entities have to follow certain rules and as long as they are under the law of karma and they don’t disrupt the universal order too much krishna allows them to play around especially kalyuga is the age when he allows them to play around a little bit more because souls who are especially sinful and whose sinful desires cannot be accommodated in the earlier ages they are packed together concentrated in this age of kali so when krishna is saying that i completed the work of the gods what he means is that he has completed the specific disturbance in the universal order that had happened because of the pre-wanderers of demons now there is a disturbance in the universal order which krishna restores which is occasionally caused by the demons but kalyuga a in kalyuga disturbance is the universal order there’s a difference disturbance in universal order is corrected by krishna but disturbance is the universal order or universal order here doesn’t mean that krishna has ordered but that is the norm in kalyuga upadrataha means that people have disturbed minds in kalyuga why because people have everyone behaves in disturbing ways because they have succumbed to their anarthas so at such time what can we do just as brahmaji prayed we too have to pray and yes krishna manifests as a yuga avatar at periodic intervals but he also uses yuga dharma and through yuga dharma he makes himself accessible to us so he is manifested as the holy name and when we take shelter of his manifestation of the holy name pray to him then he too will descend into our heart and he will also grant us peace and restore order amid the disorder that doesn’t mean that he will necessarily set things right externally but he will get give us the strength and the wisdom to deal rightly with the external wrongs and that is a that is that is a blessing that krishna will never deny us if we pray sincerely to him we cannot as brahma did invoke his presence here directly but we can still invoke his presence in our heart and there also he can the godly work of restoring dharma in our heart curbing adharma and setting us on the path of dharma krishna will do that for us also and that is his perennial mercy so krishna protects the unprotected he protects the protectors and he protects the protective wisdom of the conditioned souls by curbing their greek tendencies and strength by curbing their lower tendencies and strengthening their higher aspirations and in this way krishna is a supreme protector and he is saying that now this particular work which audhava i had been called by brahma to