CC daily 68 – CCM 5.82-86 – See mercy as resulting not due to our devotion but the blessings of our mentors

Thank you तब सब लोग मेनी पत्रत लिखीला दुहार सम्मती लया मध्यस्तर राखीला So, तब सब लोग मेनी So now the people who had assembled over there Now this is a discussion which is going on primarily between The elder brahmana, the younger brahmana and the elder brahmana's son The other people who had… It was a public assembly where this was going on So other people were also there तब सब लोग मेनी पत्रत लिखीला So at that time they arranged a paper And on the paper they wrote it down, लिखीला दुहार सम्मती लया And they took the agreements of both of them Both of them signed over there And मध्यस्तर राखीला मध्यस्तर… He kept it in between the both of them So मध्यस्तर राखीला means That they acted as मध्यस्तर, as mediators So that the agreement could be formalized and could be implemented तब एच्छोट विप्र कहे शुन सर्वजान एइ विप्र सत्यवाक्य धर्म परायान So now, again the younger विप्र is not bragging Thinking that I am such a great devotee That the Lord will come to protect my devotion He says that, शुन सर्वजान Oh all of you people, please hear my words What are my words? एइ विप्र सत्यवाक्य धर्म परायान This ववेप्र, this elderly विप्र is a truthful person He speaks true words, he keeps his words And he is धर्म परायान He is devoted to धर्म He is not a person who gives his commitment lightly He is a very serious person He gives his commitment very seriously And he has given his commitment And धर्म परायान He is धर्म परायान स्ववाक्य चाड़िते इहारे नहीं कभुमान स्वजनन्दुत्ति भये कहे असत्यवच्यान स्ववाक्य चाड़िते इहारे So, here, स्ववाक्य One's own वाक्य, his own pledge, his own word of honour चाड़िते इहारे नहीं कभुमान He did not want to give up his word He never had an intention of giving up his word like that स्वजनन्दुत्ति भये कहे असत्यवच्यान But when he was threatened by others, his family members that we will kill ourselves, we will commit suicide So, he at that time was compelled to speak false words So, he is in this way actually giving a graceful way out even to the elder brahmana He is not blaming the elder brahmana but he is understanding the reality of the situation and on understanding the reality of the situation he is giving a way in which even the elder brahmana can save face can maintain respectability In fact, he goes further and he says In 1985, he says इहारे पुण्ये कृष्णानी साक्षि बोलाईब तबे इवी प्रेर सत्य प्रतिग्या रखिब So, he says now इहारे पुण्ये It is by his piety इहारे पुण्ये कृष्णानी साक्षि बलीब So, I will bring कृष्णा, but not by my piety It is by his piety It is a very amazing sense of humility over here He is going to do something extraordinary but rather than claiming credit for that it is by my force of piety that this is going to happen He is saying that all this will happen by इहारे पुण्ये कृष्णानी So, it is by his piety it is by his virtue, it is by his devotion that this is going to happen What an amazing sense of भक्ति दे, sense of respectfulness is seen in this that although he is going to do something extraordinary he is saying that it is by the भक्ति, by the पुण्ये here पुण्ये refers in generic sense to भक्ति अन्मोक सत्व to the पुण्ये that counts as भक्ति those activities he says by this भक्ति I will bring the Lord over there and so now you see that even as devotees, when we do something wonderful we should know that it is not we who are doing something wonderful, it is by the Lord's mercy and by the, it is the Lord who is doing it and even when the Lord is doing it, it is the Lord who is allowing us to do it because of our desire to serve because of our willingness to be an instrument in the hands of senior Vaishnavas that such things are allowed to happen Krishna lets such things happen and Krishna makes us an instrument in letting such things happen so that means there are various levels of ego ego or egolessness in terms of not taking credit first level is to think that I am so great that I will do this second level is I am not great but Krishna is great and Krishna is merciful to his devotees and because I have some devotion so therefore Krishna is doing it so here we think when something wonderful is happening we are not claiming that we ourselves are great but we are still saying that I am a great devotee and it is because of my great devotion that Krishna is coming like this or Krishna is going to do like this so when we do some service that may be a level of credit also we may take actually yes Krishna is choosing me as an instrument why me? because I am so sincere, because I am so devoted because I am so special but even that level of selflessness is not there here that level of egocentrism is also not there here further he says that the further level, the devotee level is Aishwarya Prabhupada also says in his song about preaching, he says that it is Krishna will make Bhakti Nathakur's words come true Bhakti Nathakur's words comes true so the point is that if we are able to do wonderful things it is not we who are doing it it is Krishna who is doing it through us and if Krishna is choosing it as an instrument it is not because Krishna is so great it is not because we are anything special it is because Krishna is pleased by whatever tiny desire we have to serve the Vaishnavas and the Vaishnavas are very sincere and merciful and it is the Vaishnavas who are helping us to become an instrument it is because of the mercy of the Vaishnavas that we are able to become an instrument that Krishna chooses us as an instrument so he says I am going to get this Ihaara Punya Krishna sakshi bolla eba so I will get a daughter how? by his Punya, by his piety tabe in vipare sathya pratigya rakheba and in this way, it is not that I will get his daughter it is in this way his word will come true sathya pratigya rakheba so it is his word that will be maintained and etashuni nastika loka upahasa kare kehe bale ishwara dayalu asiteha pare pare so on hearing this some people were nastik loka upahasa kare the nastik people started making fun of him ridiculing him they said how is it possible, how can the lord come they started mocking him but kehe bale ishwara dayalu but some people said actually ishwara is dayalu he is very merciful and what is it that he cannot do asiteha pare he has the capacity to come he has the capacity to come so the two things Krishna has the capacity of power and Krishna is potent and Krishna is merciful and therefore he can come ishwara and dayalu ishwara means he is the controller he can do what he wants, he is omnipotent he can do whatever he wants but will he do it normally he will not do it but because he is merciful he will do it asiteha pare so it is possible that this may be done and in this way there was an eager expectation among all the people about what was going to happen in future what actually happened we will discuss in our next talk.