SB 7.9.29 By offering credit to others we empty ourselves of ourselves so that Krishna can fill us
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to your eternal abode Prahlad Maharaj is praying over here my dear lord you protected my life and you killed my father I think you did both these things because actually you did this because you wanted to honor the word of your Swabhritya, Rishi, that is Narada Muni Prahlad Maharaj is praying over here so my father had raised up his sword and he was whirling it around shouting fiercely his Asat words Prahlad Maharaj is praying over here so you always you say that you have your god who is other than me let us see if he can protect you come harami I am going to chop off your head now let us see if he comes and protects you so here Prahlad Maharaj is remembering those traumatic and traumatic moments just before lord Narasimhadev appeared and he is thinking gratefully how at that moment the lord came and saved him now a devotee a devotee is always fixed in devotion in life and in death at the same time there is a natural gratitude to the lord for whatever the lord does and the lord has come just at the right moment to protect him and Prahlad Maharaj feels immensely grateful but even while feeling grateful he is remembering that the lord has not come for my sake, he has come for the sake of keeping the words of your of his servant that is Narad Muni Narad Muni had assured Prahlad’s mother Kayadu that your child will always be protected so a devotee here we see always gives credits to those who have helped him on the spiritual path so Prahlad Maharaj doesn’t think it is because of my devotion the lord has come to me and saved me, he thinks it is because of the words of Narada my spiritual master so to the extent we can recognize the glory of others to that extent we can relish the glory of Krishna because as long as we are filled with our own glory our conceptions of our own glory can be material when we think that I am so famous, I am so powerful or Maya is so insidious that she can even mislead us with conceptions of our glory that are spiritual and we may think that I am such an advanced devotee, I am so renounced, I am so dedicated, I am so this and so that and in this way that can also fill us with ourselves and if we are filled with ourselves then we cannot be filled with Krishna and if we are not filled with Krishna we can experience no connection with Krishna, relish no spiritual happiness, make no real spiritual advancement so by offering the glory for whatever we are able to do to others to our spiritual mentors we empty ourselves so that Krishna can fill us emptying ourselves is the means by which our mind does not remain so self-centered we are not obsessed with what will happen to us alone but we are concerned about things apart from ourselves and primarily about Krishna so Kalad Maharaj reveals the exalted level of God consciousness when he is saying my dear lord it is by the grace of my spiritual master that you protected me and similarly when we are trying to take shelter of the holy name and trying to pray to Krishna if we remember this that actually even the opportunity to chant and pray, even the opportunity to get the blessings of the holy name has come to me because of the grace of my spiritual master and for that I am always grateful then we will feel empty within and the holy name will fill us from within