SB 7.9.28 Be grateful for the guru’s interrupting our journey to misery

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with the lord. Thank you. Bhagavatam 7.9.28 Satyasevam So here Prahlad Bharaj is tracing the source of the extraordinary mercy that he has received which he mentioned two verses earlier in 26th verse my dear lord you placed your lotus hand on my head so he is tracing back this mercy not to his own devotion but to the mercy of his spiritual master so 26th he said my dear lord you have given me such mercy 27th he said that actually you are not partial you reciprocate according to the service that is performed and 28th he is not even saying that I perform such a great service he is saying that my dear lord it is my spiritual master who has performed great service to you and in order to fulfill his desire you have benedicted me so evam janam nipatitam prabhavahi koope so he says by my birth nipatitam prabhavahi koope I was fallen in the deep dark well of material existence.
I was born in a demoniac family and kamabhikamam anuyaprapatan prasangat if we look at life today we see that life just exalts us with one sensual desire after another kamabhikamam in childhood we have the desires to play and after that as we come to youth we have the desires for sex then there is a desire for so many possessions and positions and often these desires take control of us so thoroughly that they rip us away from our moral fabric and impel us to act immorally, irresponsibly insensitively disastrously so prapatan prasangat so one after another these desires keep coming and in a sense our life is chalked out for us when we are born society tells us now you have to do this now you have to do this and all of it especially in a society that is materialistic it’s all grossly material with not much regard for morality and even if there is morality still it is materialistic and it keeps us impelled in material existence so Pilat Maharaj is saying that like that I was born in a demoniac family and my life was charted out ahead for me become a demon and commit sinful activities and I would have fallen deeper into material existence but krutvatmasat surshina bhagwan grihitaha so but your great devotee Narad Muni he intervened in my life he stopped intercepted my journey to hell and redirected me towards devotional service, krutvatmasat so he said my dear lord he has made me just like him that is atmasat made me just a devotee like him not necessarily in caliber but in nature I have also become engaged in devotional service surshina bhagwan grihitaha so ham katham nivisruje tava vritti seva therefore how can I ever give up his service so now the previous verse was saying that my dear lord you reciprocate according to service that is performed so he says my spiritual master Narad Muni gave me some instructions and I tried to follow those instructions and the service that I rendered thereby has saved me from a terrible existence in this material world and has also granted me your darshan, so all this I have got by my service to my spiritual master, now service we often think of it in terms of doing something personal for the spiritual master but Narad Maharaj never got to render any personal service to Narad Muni there are very little descriptions of actually Prahlad and Narad Muni meeting after he was born because once Hiranyakashyapu came back the demons were ruling and there was very little chance for interacting afterwards with anybody who was not of the same demoniac mindset so Prahlad Maharaj never got any opportunity to render personal, intimate, direct service to Narad Muni but still he followed the instructions that he had learned while in the womb and following the instructions itself for the service even if there was no direct contact and he says my dear lord I will never give up following the instructions how can I give it up so this attitude of gratitude is what makes our bhakti stable and long lasting because if we are always looking for what I am going to get then we will be unsteady but when we focus on what we have already got then we become steady and here Prahlad Maharaj he has got something extraordinary, the darshan of the lord the benediction of the lord’s hand on his forehead on his head but he is saying actually this is not special, what was special was the service that I rendered to my spiritual master which enabled me to get this so therefore how can I give up the service, let me continue on the service sometimes when we are chanting we often may get some good things, good results we may be honored for doing a service well but at that time rather than thinking that we have become great we need to think that actually it is by my service to my spiritual master, by my chanting, by my devotional activities that I have got all this so how can I ever give up my service so this gratitude will keep us always steady and happy in devotional service Thank you