How is Krishna impartial if he offers kripa-siddhi to some and asks for sadhana from others?
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So how is Krishna impartial if he offers Kripa Siddhi to some and then he asks others to do sadhana to get Siddhi? Yeah. See at one level if we are going to talk about Krishna’s partiality then we can talk about in the spiritual world also. There is one in India there is a spiritual teacher who gave a big talk that does God have favorites? Basically the idea is that politicians have favoritism.
They have their own favorites. So God has no favorites. God is impartial to all.
Now that is true for Krishna as the Paramatma. That is not true for Krishna as Bhagwan. For Krishna Radharani is his favorite Gopi.
So God also has his favorites. Krishna loves all flowers. Krishna loves all of nature but he puts a peacock feather on his face.
Now Krishna likes all instruments but he plays a flute. So God has his personal nature and personal nature will also mean personal preferences. So there is no meaning to personal nature if there are no personal preferences involved.
So if we try to superimpose on Krishna the conception of impartiality in this world then basically Krishna will be left with no personality. Isn’t it? Because every personal choice is a preference for something and preference for one thing means not preferring the other thing. So here how is this possible that Krishna is a person with his own preferences and at the same time he is impartial.
He is universally accessible. That is by Krishna’s omnipotence. That means that say there are different Gopis and some Gopis are very intimately connected with Krishna.
Some Gopis are serving Krishna from a distance. So in our tradition we follow the Manjuris. So the Gopis perform Leela with Krishna and the Manjuris observe Krishna perform Leela with the Gopis and the Manjuris get ecstasy.
Now Acharya has described that actually by observing the Leela of Krishna with the Gopis the Manjuris get not the same amount of ecstasy but the Manjuris sometimes get more ecstasy also. So how is that? That is Krishna’s omnipotence. So at the level of God as a person he will have his preferences.
And that’s what makes his personality concrete, real. But if we think of God only as a person, God is a person but he is an omnipotent person. So Krishna can be performing Leela with Radharani but he can be manifesting at the same time in the heart of another Gopi who is not in the Leela so close to Krishna.
And that way that Gopi also gets enriched by Krishna’s presence. So in that sense we cannot impose material conceptions of partiality on Krishna. So what we understand is that in some exceptional cases Krishna may give Kripa Siddhi to some people.
But the important thing is Krishna remains accessible to everyone. And if we practice Bhakti he will also give us mercy. Does that answer your question? Yes.