SB 01.05.30 Look forward to the holy name’s daily parting gift of strength and taste

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thank you so here naraguni is coming to the conclusion of how he received instructions in his previous life from the bhaktivedantas so as they were instructing him they also gave knowledge progressively and when they saw that he was serious he was sincere he was committed and after when the period of the four months was nearing its end and naraguni did not or narada the boy at that time did not just serve them or hear krishna katha like a casual hobby for a few days but continued in that day after day week after month after month they could see that this boy is special he seriously interested in what we want to share with the world and seeing the his sincerity warm the heart and they gave him just before they departed their most precious gift just as when we leave our loved ones we like to give some memento some small gifts or big gifts are shared so that they will act as reminders of the bond that we share the bonds of affection so now the great sages don’t possess anything material they usually they are nishkin jinnah they do not have anything material at least they don’t have attachment to material things in the case of these sages they’re wandering mendicants what could they have they had a thing that was of worldly value but they had that thing which was the supreme spiritual value and that was krishna himself of the knowledge about bhakti yoga which gives one krishna at its end and they this guiya knowledge this confidential knowledge they shared with narada boy gamish chanta just before they were about to leave they shared this knowledge as their parting gift to him and what narada did with that knowledge will be described hereafter but here the significance of how the devotees also act on the principle of yam yam 4.11 in the gita that was all people surrendered to me i reward them accordingly then this reciprocal behavior of the lord’s devotees is ultimately an expression of his reciprocal nature now when we say that ultimately it is an expression of that can be a source of great hope for us because we understand that ultimately although gaining mercy is not in our hands but seeking mercy is definitely in our hands and because krishna is reciprocal when we seek his mercy he will eventually grant it sooner or later so humility is not meant to create a sense of helplessness humility is meant to create a sense of neediness and that neediness doesn’t make us helpless because we know krishna is reciprocal and because krishna is reciprocal so he if we humbly call out to him he will reciprocate and when there is when we feel helpless that means we feel that we can do nothing and of course sometimes we may say that we should feel helpless but that helplessness doesn’t mean that we should feel that there’s nothing that we can do that we can’t even call out to krishna no we can call out to krishna and krishna even if he does not immediately respond to our prayers he does respond sooner or later so by meditating on this point that by my calling out to krishna because he’s reciprocal he will reciprocate sooner or later we can get a sense of urgency and in once paradoxically confidence that i too can do something and this way we can become more and more put more and more of your heart into our sadhana into our chanting into our calling out to krishna and as we do this gradually we go come closer and closer to krishna by his grace so here just as the sages gave narada muni the supreme gift of bhagavato the guhya knowledge the confidential knowledge about the supreme lord similarly the confidential messages that guru sadhu shastra can contain for us their import will be revealed in our heart if we keep serving sincerely diligently and this applies to chanting also although the holy name seems to be the same holy name that we are chanting but if you keep chanting attentively as much as possible for us and show krishna that we want to come closer to him then over a period of time he will reveal his sweetness and that every day when we finish our japa if we have chanted attentively the parting gift that we will have for that day will be uh the taste and the strength that comes from chanting and that will see us through the ups and downs through the temptations and tribulations through the many distractions till the next day when we again chant and again we get the parting gift from the holy name so we don’t demand the parting gift and narada muni did not demand it narada muni just kept serving narada boy kept just kept serving and the sages by their own accord gave this special gift similarly we just keep serving krishna through his holy name and through the other ways that we can serve him and he will give us the gift of taste and strength and then we will be able to