Krishna rewards according to surrender, but Lord Chaitanya sees no qualification. How to reconcile?

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in a different category, he is the basis of all beings Hare Krishna question Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita as people surrender to me I reward them accordingly whereas about Chaitanya Mahaprabhu he said that that he does not see any qualification he does not see any place he just bestows mercy on everyone so how do we reconcile this contradiction answer by understanding that Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is much more merciful than Krishna he is the same Krishna who is coming in his most merciful manifestation namo mahavadyaya krishna prema pradayate so we can take multiple examples let’s start with one simple example first that sometimes when children have to go to school then there is a bus which often comes at a bus stop and so children have to go to the bus stop and then the bus picks them up and then it takes them to the school but sometimes some bus services offer more customized service and then the bus comes not just to the bus stop the bus comes right in front of the door itself so all the child has to go just open the door and step into the bus and then child will reach the station reach the school so like that going to the bus stop is what Krishna expects us to do he expects us to surrender and then he will reciprocate he will reward Chaitanya Mahaprabhu says even if you don’t surrender I will come to you he makes things easier for us so how does he make it easier just by chanting the holy names just by practicing the very simple limbs of bhakti and getting the profound higher taste that we get when we practice bhakti yoga under his shelter we rise upwards towards him rapidly so the whole process of bhakti yoga has been made much more accessible by Krishna through the by Krishna in his manifestation of Lord Chaitanya now having said that it’s still there is still some level of yatha mam prapadyante there in Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also because although Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gives his mercy to everyone still it is up to us to accept it and if he doesn’t accept if we don’t accept then we still stay bereaved so there is reciprocation even here also just like in the bus example also a person has to enter, the child has to enter the bus even if the bus comes to the door the child has to enter the bus and after entering the bus the child has to stay in the bus if the child jumps out of the bus then he will not leave the destination similarly we do have to endeavor to some extent to practice bhakti and not only do we have to endeavor to practice bhakti we also have to endeavor to stay in bhakti so there are challenges in bhakti also so the principle of reciprocation is not entirely eliminated but it is subordinated where far greater accessibility is granted by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu than is by Lord Krishna at the same time the two lords are one and they are both on the same mission but in Kaliyuga where the distress is far greater the Lord appears with far greater mercy also so another example I’ll give to conclude this there may be a charitable person who comes and gives charity to whoever comes and asks so that person has charitable disposition but suppose there is a natural calamity say there is an earthquake in some area the charitable person will himself go to that place and give charity profusely but either case the person still has to accept the charity so now similarly Lord Krishna asks come to me and then I’ll give you bhakti but Lord Chaitanya says that Kaliyuga is like a spiritual calamity it is an age where people have no spiritual knowledge where is the spiritual knowledge where is the spiritual information so in such a spiritual calamity what we need is a merciful lord like Lord Chaitanya we are not interested in spirituality, we are not interested in God but God becomes interested in us and comes to us and at the same time we will also see that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also has a principle of reciprocity so we see that those devotees who surrendered themselves more and more to him he empowered them more and more he entrusted them with more and more responsibility so so just like charitable person will give a lot of charity if you see that the charitable person sees that charity is being used properly then they will give more but if you see that this person is taking charity and just drinking and not rebuilding the house not taking care of the devastated family members person will not do charity like that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also sees that whether we are accepting what he is taking and we are valuing it whether we are treasuring it if we don’t value and treasure it then we don’t benefit from it much and then the taste gets, we don’t get taste if we chant very negligently if we practice bhakti very very without any invest any consciousness in it then we don’t get any taste in bhakti and eventually what happens is that that mercy is lost so the principle of reciprocation is still there but accessibility is far greater in the case of Lord Chaitanya that is his unique manifestation as the manifestation of supreme mercy Mahavadya Niyaya Thank you.
Hare Krishna