Gauranga Shata Nama 04 – Those who delude the Lord get deluded by him

Thank you Gauranga Shethanam Gauranga Shethanam goes on to describe the names of Lord Gauranga so he was the best among the students those who are the seekers of Vidya of knowledge Udupa is the best the topmost among them we know the celebrated past time of how the thieves came to steal from Jaitanya Mahaprabhu steal Nimai's jewels and Nimai got a free ride from them and eventually brought them back home got them to take him home so he got a ride on their shoulders while they thought they were going to soon steal his jewels they fed him nice food also and so they wanted to fool Nimai but Nimai ended up fooling them at the Mohan normally a child who is with strangers gets scared or the child doesn't certainly have the capacity to delude strangers especially into making them think that they are going in one place while they are going to another place so even in his childhood Jaitanya Mahaprabhu in his own mysterious ways showed his extraordinary potency as being someone who was not just an ordinary child so this is actually the general characteristic this pastime represents in general what happens to those who try to delude Krishna two thieves had great fortune because they got the fortune to directly serve Nimai carry him on their shoulders offer food to him how many people get such a fortune and they certainly feel very very special to get that fortune but first thing is to get it is one thing to get a fortune it is another thing to use the fortune so unfortunately they did not use the fortune because they focused not on loving the lord but on not on serving him but instead on trying to get him trying to exploit him and that malified intention led to their being unable to use a greatly treasured opportunity that they had got so similarly actually even when we come to Krishna if our goal is to use Krishna as a tool for our own prestige I know so much philosophy I can sing so nicely I can get so many followers so we may not directly want to steal from Krishna but if our goal is to take credit from Krishna instead of giving credit to Krishna then the result of that is we will not be able to we will not be able to work on the we will not get higher taste we may be able to do many other activities which seem to be devotional if we are good at singing and we get credit for singing we will actually excel in singing because that's the source of our credit we work hard at it and we will make sure that we do it well but the problem will be that our taste is coming from not remembrance of Krishna but from the glorification that we get while doing the activities which are meant to give us and others remembrance of Krishna and because our glorification is coming from our sense of satisfaction is coming from something other than Krishna therefore the activities which are centered on remembering Krishna will not be relishable for us and that's how we will struggle especially in chanting of the holy names because in chanting we don't get much credit for our skills, for our intelligence, for our expertise we just have to seek the joy and remembrance of Krishna and that's how we too may get mohan may think that I am advancing nicely in bhakti but we are actually advancing only in our ego and not in our bhakti usually this refers to the pilgrim who came to came in the childhood to Nimai's house and he wanted he would cook his own food and eat it and before that he would offer to the lord so when he would offer to the lord Nimai would charge into the house and eat that food and this happened multiple times and this boy and this brahmin was exasperated till finally Nimai had mercy on him and revealed to him that actually it is that he was the Krishna that he was calling and that stunned and impressed him so much it was a life transforming event and he devoted himself utterly to Nimai although he could not reveal himself reveal that this was Nimai to everyone so Nimai would even play with the local girls they would come to worship Shiva so that they would get a good husband Shiva and Parvati and then he would say that I am the master of Shiva you should worship me and they would be shocked how can you say this how can we worship you if you don't worship me then I will have you cursed and then you will die you will get old husbands who already have many co-wives and they would get scared and they would worship him and then he would say now you will get a young husband who will give you a dozen sons.