CC daily 75 – M 5.127-132 – Gopal reciprocates with the desire of his royal maidservant

Thank you I have come to take darshan of the gopal lady and she is contemplating that considering that she is so filled with devotion that she wants to offer her own precious nose pearl to the lord and she is thinking that if there were a hole in the lord nose then I could offer this pearl and then the lord could be adorned by it thakure nasate yadi chidra thakita if in the nose there is a hole then tabe ei dasi mukta nasaya parayita tabe ei dasi then this maid servant now she is a queen but you can see her humility and her devotion she is thinking of herself as a dasi, as a maid servant to the supreme lord being a queen she has many dasis with her she will have many dasis and as compared to a queen the position of a dasi is quite menial and for a queen to consider herself to be a dasi is extraordinary and that the queen thinks like this with relationship to the lord reveals her humility her bhakti and her understanding of the nature of the relationship which all living beings have with the lord as we are all his servants tabe ei dasi mukta nasaya parayita then in the lord nose I will offer this for the lord nose I will offer this pearl so now she wants to offer but then the offering has to be made in such a way that the lord can accept and use it once the deity is made actually we cannot change and put a hole there in the deity afterwards usually that is not done so generally we have to contemplate and think whether whatever we are offering that is that will be usable by the one to whom we are offering she is contemplating like this and she is undecided now she is beholding darshan of the lord from the distance and she sees the lord she doesn't see any any hole for a nose ring over there eta chinti namaskari gela swabhavane ratni sheshe gopala tande kahe na swapane eta chinti after contemplating like this namaskari she offered obeisance gela swabhavane and she offered obeisance and went to her home her palace and her quarters within the palace ratni sheshe gopala tande kahe na swapane ratni sheshe and towards the end of the night gopala tande kahe na swapane in a dream gopala appeared and he spoke to her so ratni sheshe she had gone and she slept and she had a normal sleep but then suddenly something wonderful happened that lord gopala came in her dream and gopala's coming in a dream is a extraordinary event you are stunned to see this so gopala came in her dream kahe na swapane what did gopala speak to her 129 text balya kaale mata mora nasa chhidra kari mukta paranchila bahuyatna kari balya kaale when i was a child mata more nasa chhidra kari so my mother has made a hole in my nose and mukta parayanchila mukta paranchila and she put a pearl over there bahuyatna kari so children if a hole is to be made in the nose or the ear for putting in some ring or something children are scared first of all sees a sharp object and then to have the sharp object pierce their pierce their pierce their body even if it is not going to cause any harm and even if the pain is also minimal still for children there is fear and then after that also the ornament has to be positioned in such a way that it doesn't it doesn't hurt that it actually helps it actually adds to the beauty and charm but it doesn't become in any way cause to the wear and tear of the organ so bahuyatna kari so my mother had done a lot of endeavor in order to put the ornament there sei chhidra adhya piha achhaya nasate sei mukta parahayaha chahiya chhidite sei chhidra that same hole adhya piha even now piha it is still there still until adhya piha achhaya nasate it's there in my nose sei mukta parahayaha chahiya chhidite so there you can put the pearl if chahiya chhidite that is your desire so we see how the lord reciprocates with devotional desires by giving appropriate knowledge appropriate revolution so now the deity had come from a distant place and the deity is normally even if the lord has performed intimate pastime, the deity is worshipped with grandeur and opulence so the queen from a distance could not have noticed and she may never have come to know about it but even before she could have sent some messengers to talk with the pujari and inquire from the pujari whether it is possible to put a nose ring, to put a nose jewel on the lord the lord himself came and informed her in a dream swapanne dekhi sei rani raja ke kahila raja saha mukta laya mandire aila swapanne dekhi sei rani so on seeing this dream raja ke kahila she spoke this to the king raja saha mukta laya mandire aila raja saha along with the king she she brought the jewel to the temple so when she told this dream she was thrilled that the lord has come in her dream and revealed something wonderful and when she told it to her husband, the king was also delighted, he was thrilled to see how the special opportunity for service the lord was providing them by giving a confidential information through an exciting thrilling means of a dream so they both came with that jewel, he also agreed as it was said earlier Prashottande was also a great devotee and he had no hesitation in fact he had great jubilation in offering this jewel precious pearl to the lord and then paraila mukta naasaye chidra dekhiya maha mahotsav kaila anandita haiya paraila mukta naasaye mukta naasaye chidra dekhiya and for putting the jewel on the deity, they saw actually there was a nose and when they saw the nose they offered the jewel and they adorned the lord with the deity and then not only did they do that maha mahotsav kaila anandita haiya they organized a big festival because in one sense when the deity had been moved from Vidyanagar to Utkale, Utkal and had been placed in Katak it's not often that a deity after it's been installed it's moved so whether the lord was happy about the move or not you know this lord is coming in a dream and revealing something which turns out to be true and as accepting their offering of a pearl indicated the lord had accepted them the lord had made their kingdom as their own and they were delighted and they organized a jubilant celebration and thus they celebrated such are the extraordinary pastimes where the lord reciprocates intimately and wonderfully with his devotees.