SB 7.9.18 The Lord’s pastimes are not for entertainment but for being entered into
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shimad bhagavatam 7,9,18 so ham priya sisurdha paradevataya leela katha stavan nrishin bhavirancha gita anja sthitar mea anugranam guna vipramukto durga nite pada nrishin gita anugranam vipramukto durga nrishin durga nrishin bhavirancha vipramukto durga nrishin anugranam guna vipramukto durga nrishin so ham priya sisurdha paradevataya you are the transcendental lord beyond the conventions and conceptions of material affection and the exchanges of love that you have between yourself and your devotees are so absorbing so engaging so intoxicating that leela katha those pastimes stavan nrishin bhavirancha gita so those can completely absorb all conditioned souls and even all liberated souls virancha gita so lord brahmaji has sung them and through the disciplic succession he has taught so many people including my spiritual master narada muni how to recite those glories and how to absorb oneself in those glories and anjasthitarmya dhitarmya is to cross over anjas is easily so he says i will easily cross over what will exist in te anugranan gunavipramukto te anugranan so anugranan means constantly chanting by constantly describing your wonderful exchanges of love between yourself and your devotees gunavipramukto whatever promises of love and happiness that the mods allure us with they will become completely distateful and i will become liberated from them and once i am gunavipramukto then durganite padayugama durganite padayugalaya hamsasangaha durgani so all the obstacles that are durga that are created by durgadevi by mayadevi by this material existence i will be able to cross over them anjasthitarmya how will that happen i will attain the padayugalaya how will that happen by associating with your devotees so the point here is that by remembering the love between the lord and his devotees in the association of those who either have that similar love or aspire for that love what happens is our attractions for the things and the love affairs of this world become pale and stale and we become spiritually tempted and captivated by the desire to enter into krishna’s loving affairs so the purpose of glorifying krishna nila kathastra narsimha virendra gita it’s not a ritual that we do because we have taken a vow to do or because it is a pious thing to do actually when we hear the pastimes of the lord the purpose is to understand how the lord reciprocates love with his devotees and to similarly develop the desire to enter into those loving relationships those loving reciprocations and that happens when we hear those pastimes reciprocations of love from devotees because otherwise we may hear those pastimes but they will just be good entertainment however with the association of devotees we will get the desire not just to be entertained by those pastimes but to enter into those pastimes and that desire will help us to become gunavit pramukto so here as pralabh maharaj expresses we can also express to the lord our confidence that my dear lord if i can just absorb myself in your glories in your name in your pastimes in your remembrance in your loving exchanges with your devotees then by that i can break free from all contaminations of this world so with this prayer in mind we can try to wholeheartedly absorb ourselves so how does this whole absorption in love begins it begins with our desire for that love just as pralabh maharaj is expressing that desire by prayer we can also pray my dear lord help me to become absorbed in your pastimes and by that i will break free from material