God Is Ready - The Supreme Protector and Guide of His Devotees
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is never indifferent to the living entities. Instead, He is the supreme father and friend who is eternally ready to help, instruct, and protect those who surrender unto Him. By understanding how readily the Lord reciprocates with His devotees, one can develop unflinching faith in His divine shelter.
Ready to Instruct and Reveal
Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that the Lord is the supreme teacher. He is always ready to impart transcendental knowledge to those who are submissive, just as He was prepared to re-explain the entire Bhagavad-gītā to Arjuna.
- God is always ready to be revealed to you. But how does He reveal? He reveals as soon as you become submissive, you become devotee, you become Krsna conscious, you just follow the path traversed by the great mahajanas, great acaryas.
- If Arjuna did not understand the proper perspective of Bhagavad-gita, the Lord was ready to re-explain any point, or the whole Bhagavad-gita if so required.
- It is because of this foolishness that one cannot take instructions from the Lord, although the Lord is ready to instruct everyone both externally and internally.
- The Lord is always ready to give instructions to the pure devotee so that the devotee can advance further and further in devotional service.
Ready to Protect in Adversity
The Lord is famous as the protector of the surrendered souls. Śrīla Prabhupāda describes how the Supreme Person is always ready to rescue His devotees from dangerous conditions and annihilate the demonic forces that threaten them.
- She prayed: I request You to save me from the cruel hands of the son of Ugrasena, Kamsa. I am praying to Your Lordship to please rescue me from this fearful condition because You are always ready to give protection to Your servitors.
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being situated in everyone's heart, and especially in the hearts of His devotees, is always ready to help devotees in adversity.
- There are always two classes of men, the devotees and the demons. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, the Lord is always ready for the protection of the devotees and annihilation of the demons.
- The Lord has confirmed this statement that God is always ready to give protection to His servitors in the Bhagavad-gita by assuring Arjuna: You may declare to the world, My devotee shall never be vanquished.
Ready to Help and Reciprocate
Because the devotees rely entirely on the Lord, He naturally reciprocates their loving dependence. Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that Kṛṣṇa is always ready to deploy all His opulences to assist a sincere soul in their spiritual duties.
- God is there, and He is everyone's father. He is everyone's friend. He is always ready. He's coming personally to canvas. He's so kind. Just hear, immediately.
- The Pandavas knew nothing except Krsna, and therefore the Lord was also always ready to help them in all respects and in all circumstances. That is the transcendental nature of the Lord. He reciprocates the dependence of the devotee.
- The word Madhava is significant. Ma, mother Laksmi, the mother of all opulences, is always with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and if a devotee is in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all the opulences of the Lord are ready to help him.
- The Lord bestows mercy upon His devotee by helping him find out his constitutional position. For that purpose, the Lord is always ready to help the devotee in every way.
Ready to Fulfill Desires and Accept Offerings
The Lord's readiness extends to accepting the loving service of His devotees, regardless of their material condition. Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that God is like a desire tree, completely ready to accept simple offerings and award the highest perfection of life.
- O Lord, who resemble the shining sun, You are always ready to fulfill the desire of Your devotee, and therefore You are known as a desire tree.
- One can execute devotional service even in the most poverty-stricken condition. The Lord says, patram puspam phalam: He is ready to accept from the devotee any kind of offering, never mind what.
- Prthu was engaged in performing the ordinary Vedic rituals and sacrifices according to karma-kanda, or fruitive activities, but the Lord, being so kind and magnanimous, was ready to award Prthu Maharaja the highest perfectional stage of life, namely devotional service.
- Kapiladeva was anxious that His mother not feel the absence of His father, and He was ready to take the best care of her and give her knowledge.
Conclusion
To truly comprehend the loving nature of the Absolute Truth, one must recognize that God is always ready to reciprocate with His parts and parcels. Śrīla Prabhupāda concludes that whether by guiding from within as Paramātmā or protecting from without as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord is the ultimate well-wisher. Because He is a person, He actively desires to reunite with the living entities and is fully prepared to accept even the most meager offerings made in pure devotion. By simply becoming submissive and turning one's attention toward Him, a sincere soul will find that the Supreme Lord is already waiting, ready to award the ultimate perfection of eternal life.
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