CC daily 23 – M 84-86 – The transcendental manifests repeatedly as the historical

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… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … then people in general will aspire to become cricketers and sports stars or at least become like them. Kings are the heroes of people in general and everybody will want to become a king. If those devoted to God are the central objects of respect in society, then everyone else will also want to become devoted to God.

So, the right models are essential for social society's progress and modelling is not just an act of how one behaves, but who gets modelled is also determined by whom society treats as respectable. So, the principle of offering respect to the Vaishnavas is vital for the whole society is staying on the path to spiritual growth and progressing towards devotion to God. So, therefore, they all are devoted to Him.

Those who are devoted to Him, such as the Brahmanas, it's not just by caste, caste by birth Brahmanas, but Brahmanas who according to their birth have fulfilled the importance of birth by engaging in devotional service and by… So, the point of offering respect to the Brahmanas is that they represent Brahmanical culture, they personify Brahmanical culture, they preserve and propagate Brahmanical culture and Brahmanical culture is the foundation for practicing spiritual life and attaining the spiritual world. Twenty-fifth verse. अन्यग्रामेर लोक यत देखिते आईला, गोपाल देखिया सब प्रसाद खाईला.

So, अन्यग्रामेर लोक, people from other villages also came there. यत देखिते आईला, देखिते, they came there to take darshan of Gopala. गोपाल देखिया सब प्रसाद खाईला.

So, the news that Gopal had manifested himself spread far and wide. And because this news had spread far and wide, so the result was that people from different places came, how this amazing deity has manifested and immediately temple has been established. So, they came there and they had darshan of the beautiful deity.

And then the prasad was offered to them. And they all honoured the prasad. So, actually whenever deity worship is performed, the purpose of deity worship is to ensure that everyone gets an opportunity to come close to Krishna by taking darshan, by chanting his glories and by taking prasad.

As it was earlier mentioned that Gopal has said that I will manifest and I will deliver the whole world. So, that sequence of delivering the world is now continuing with many people coming and taking darshan from various places and being blessed by that darshan. देखिया पुरीर प्रभाव, लोके चामतकार, भुरुवान न पुतये न हैल साक्षातकार.

देखिया पुरीर प्रभाव, In this way when people saw the प्रभाव, the influence of पुरी, लोके चामतकार, people, when they saw it, they understood this is amazing, this is miraculous. भुरुवान न पुतये न हैल साक्षातकार. भुरुवान न पुतये, In the past, the अन्न कूतः ceremony was performed.

अन्न कूतः ceremony is a ceremony, in the गोवर्धन पुजा, गोवर्धन is manifested as a mountain, and the devotees, the प्रजवासी's who were worshipping him, also made mountains of food grains to offer to गोवर्धन, and in this way, भुरुवान न पुतये न हैल साक्षातकार. So by him, साक्षातकार is actually realization or direct manifestation, so the अन्न कूतः ceremony which had been performed long ago by Krishna and the बुजवासी's, to worship, propitiate गोवर्धन and in that way propitiate Krishna, that has been re-manifested. So, here we see, for the devotees, the home of their thoughts is Krishna, and Krishna's wonderful activities and Krishna's pastimes.

And just as, there are songs like Home Sweet Home, there is no place like home, John F. Keats sang that song, so wherever we go, if there is a place we love, their home is the place we love, then we want to think about that home again and again. So similarly here, a devotee's home is the thoughts of Krishna, and whatever a devotee sees that reminds him of Krishna. So here a magnificent festival was performed, it was near गोवर्धन, and it had striking similarities, in terms of huge quantities of food being offered in worship.

Now, गोवर्धन, in the अन्नकुट festival, there might not have been exactly a deity, in terms of the deity worship, but Krishna himself, wherever he manifests, that is in some ways a deity. So the deity of गोवर्धन was worshipped over here. In that festival, and now, Krishna had manifested himself as Gopalji, and again mountains of food were there.

So the magnificence of the festival, the venue of the festival, the self-manifestation of Krishna, and especially the huge quantities of food that were offered, these all reminded people of the अन्नकुट festival. And they felt that history is repeating itself. Now, often we use the word, history repeats itself in a negative sense, to say that the past mistakes are being committed again.

But, for a devotee, we understand the eternal manifests through history, when Krishna descends in the world. Krishna's pastimes are not just historical, they are transcendental. They continue eternally, in the spiritual world, and they manifest periodically in the material world, when Krishna descends to this world.

So Krishna's pastimes are not just historical, they are transcendental, and their transcendence manifesting through the history. And they manifest a particular principle, which is also eternal. That is, that when the devotee tries to serve the Lord, the Lord reciprocates, and in that reciprocation of love between the devotee and the Lord, wonderful manifestations of love are seen.

Wonderful things happen in that manifestation. So that is being depicted over there. That is चमतकार.

So, after seeing this festival, people thought that it was चमतकार, it's miraculous. How did such a wonderful thing happen? They thought about it, they were very delighted. So again, Krishna asked Parayoga Swami, he doesn't consider just the Krishna, Gopal coming in a dream to be चमतकार, but after that, when a magnificent festival is performed, that also is a चमतकार.

And they say this is आक्षातकार, that what has happened again, what has happened earlier at the time, the loving reciprocation between the Lord and the devotee that's manifested in Anukottinakut festival in Govardhan is now being manifested again. And in this way, the wonderful loving reciprocation was relished by all the people, by the grace of Gopal and by the grace of Madhavendra Puri.