Bhagavatam-daily 223 – 11.11.29 – Mercy is given from a superior position, but not with a superior disposition
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With krishna in a genuine transformational way so here krishna is replying to the enquiry of uddhava and in the course of the reply he mentions over here the characteristics of his top or best devotees mercy can be bestowed by one who feels that I have a lot and others have little so let me share what we have mercy is definitely given by a person who has more a person who is situated in a better position but still the merciful person does not have a superior hofty attitude or condescending attitude towards those to whom mercy is given because the truly merciful person understands that what I am giving is actually not mine to give it is gifted to me by god by krishna through his devotees and I am simply sharing what has been given to me so in that sense I am doing what I am not actually giving something which is my own but I am giving that which has been given to me so kripa is done although it is from a superior position but it is not done with a superior disposition person who is proud a proud person is not really giving mercy that person may be giving charity and charity is also not really connecting the deeper substrate of a person that is simply trapping that person in greater illusion because one thinks I am great akrita droha, so there is for the krupalu, for the merciful disposition to be there one has to be akrita droha, one has to be free from envy envy comes when we think of ourselves as the enjoyers and then we see that someone else is enjoying more than us, then we start thinking why is this person enjoying more than me and then we start thinking this person should not enjoy and we start denigrating that person so such a competitive exploitative mentality a devotee is free from itikshu sarvadehinam and is tolerant towards all living beings sathyasaro anavadhyatma itikshu, tolerance essentially means that a devotee is purposeful in trying to stay focused on attaining krishna and