# Kṛṣṇa's Mercy *On the causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead* --- ### Eager to Take You Back > Kṛṣṇa wants all these fallen souls to be delivered, because they are Kṛṣṇa's part and parcel. Just like a rich man, if his son goes out of home, he is suffering. His father knows that rascal boy is suffering. He is very anxious to get him back. "Bring this rascal at home." That is father's concern, naturally. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is more eager to take you back. Therefore He comes. He comes. He has got His agent, the *guru.* He has got His instruction, the *Bhagavad-gītā.* The whole concern is that God is so anxious, Kṛṣṇa is anxious, to call back these rascals, back to home, back to Godhead. — [[spoken/1973/731220sb.la|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.42, Los Angeles, December 20, 1973]] --- ### Mercy of Nityānanda > Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says that one who has actually received the causeless mercy of Nityānanda, he has no more any material desire. That is the symptom. *Āra kabe nitāicand karuṇā karibe saṁsāra-vāsanā mora kabe tuccha. Saṁsāra-vāsanā* means desire for material enjoyment, when it will become very insignificant. — [[spoken/1968/681229pu.la|Song & Purport to Gaurāṅga Bolite Habe, Los Angeles, December 29, 1968]] --- ### Guru-Kṛṣṇa-Kṛpāya > That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu, *guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja.* Two things required: *guru* and Kṛṣṇa. *Guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja. Mālī hañā sei bīja koro āropana.* "I have got some seed of *bhakti,* and I keep it in the iron chest." No. You must make cultivation of *bhakti-bīja: mālī hañā sei bīja koro āropana.* And how to nourish the *bīja? Śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye śecana*: by *śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam.* Water is this. Then the *bhakti-latā* will come out a tree, and you will get the fruits and enjoy. — [[spoken/1975/751220mw.bom|Morning Walk, Bombay, December 20, 1975]] --- ### Devotee Is Already Mukta > So for a devotee, there is no question of *mukti.* A devotee is already *mukta.* Why? Kṛṣṇa says, *ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi*: "Immediately, as soon as you surrender to Me, immediately I give you protection." You are awaiting some fruitive result of your past *karma,* that is bondage. You have to take birth and you have to serve according to that *karma.* Then from that position you are immediately liberated. *Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi...* Then you are *mukta.* — [[spoken/1975/751220bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, Bombay, December 20, 1975]] --- ### We Have That Potency > So this *uttiṣṭhata jāgrata* is... *Sva-tejasāpibat tīvram. Sva-tejasā:* we have got that potency to come to the light. Everyone, we have got that potency. Simply we must be willing. That independence is there. I may not like it. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja:* "You do it." Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful; He can force you to accept this principle. But that He will not do. He will not touch your independence. He will ask you to do it, but He will not force you to do it. If you do not take it, that is your choice. — [[spoken/1974/741229sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.20, Bombay, December 29, 1974]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Sent Nārada Muni > Yes. Because Kṛṣṇa is there, if He sees somebody is actually serious to understand Him—just like Dhruva Mahārāja. Dhruva Mahārāja, he did not make any *guru,* but with fervent desire he went, "Yes, I shall find out Kṛṣṇa." Mother said, "Kṛṣṇa can be found in the forest," so he went to the forest, and he began according to his own way. Then Kṛṣṇa sent Nārada Muni, that "This boy is very serious. Go and give him real *mantra.*" — [[spoken/1975/751220mw.bom|Morning Walk, Bombay, December 20, 1975]] --- ### Saved by Chanting Nārāyaṇa > Kṛṣṇa is so kind. As soon as He heard that "This man is chanting 'Nārāyaṇa' at the time of his death," immediately He sent His assistants, Viṣṇudūtas, to give him shelter. Therefore in the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, *svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt.* The *mahato bhayāt...* This man, this Ajāmila, is fallen into great calamity. The Yamadūtas, the assistants of the superintendent of death, Yamarāja, has come there to drag him. So *mahato bhayāt.* It was a great, fearful, dangerous place. But simply by uttering "Nārāyaṇa" he was saved. — [[spoken/1970/701216sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.27–34, Surat, December 16, 1970]] --- ### In Poverty We Think of God > Anyone who is not supplied as he wants, that is due to his own disease, chronic. So if God does not supply him sufficiently, it is good for him. Therefore, in spiritual advancement a poor man is in more advantage because he can think of God. Provided he is virtuous, he will think of God. *Catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ sukṛtino 'rjuna.* — [[spoken/1966/661220cc.ny|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.294–298, New York, December 20, 1966]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on Kṛṣṇa's mercy*