God Is So Kind - The Boundless Compassion of the Supreme Lord
Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly emphasizes the limitless compassion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although the living entities have rebelled against His authority to struggle in the material world, the Lord is so kind that He never abandons them. Instead, He provides every facility for them to ultimately realize their constitutional position and return to His eternal shelter.
The Constant Companion
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that God's kindness is most intimately displayed through His feature as the Paramātmā. As the localized Supersoul, the Lord acts as a constant friend, accompanying the living entity through countless lifetimes.
- God is not away from us. He is present. He is so friendly that He remains with us in our repeated change of births. He is waiting to see when we shall turn to Him. He is so kind that though we may forget Him, He never forgets us.
- The Lord is so kind that He constantly remains with the living being as Paramatma and always tries to convert the living being towards the real happiness.
- The Supersoul is said to be friendly because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the original soul that when the original soul transmigrates from one body to another, the Lord goes with him.
- The Supreme Lord is so kind upon the living entity that He always accompanies the individual soul and in all circumstances is present as the Supersoul or Paramatma.
Fulfilling All Desires
Even when souls misuse their independence to pursue material illusions, the Lord mercifully provides them with the facilities they desire. Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that God acts as a kind father, supplying bodies and necessities based on individual karma.
- God is kind. Even we are rebelled, even we do not surrender unto Him, still, He is so kind. He is sending us grains, He is sending us fruits, so many things.
- God is so kind that if you want any kind of material pleasure, He will give you a suitable body.
- The Lord awards everyone different kinds of karma as the individual living entities desire; He is the Supersoul present within the heart of everyone, and He is so kind and liberal that He gives everyone full facilities to perform whatever acts one wants.
- Man proposes; God disposes. God is very kind. Whatever you desire, He will fulfill. Although He says that "This kind of material desires will never satisfy you," but we want. Therefore God supplies us, Krsna, different types of body.
Easily Pleased by Devotion
To return to the spiritual world does not require impossible endeavors or immense wealth. Śrīla Prabhupāda assures us that the Lord is so kind that He accepts the simplest gestures of love from His devotees.
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind that if an unsophisticated person, with devotion and without duplicity, offers at the lotus feet of the Lord a little water, a flower, a fruit or a leaf, the Lord accepts it.
- The Lord is so kind that He accepts a little insignificant service, and therefore it is stated in the Visnu Purana that by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma one can satisfy the Supreme Lord.
- God is so kind and merciful that He can give Himself in exchange for the devotional service of the devotee.
- Ramacandra is so kind and merciful to His devotees that He is very easily satisfied by a little service rendered by anyone, human or not. This is the special advantage of worshiping Ramacandra, and there is the same advantage in worshiping Mahaprabhu.
Descending to Reclaim the Fallen
The miseries of the material world bring no pleasure to the Lord. Therefore, Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that God personally descends and sends His pure representatives to rescue the suffering souls and guide them back to the spiritual sky.
- Krsna and His devotees are so kind and compassionate that they are unhappy to see all the misery of this material world.
- The Lord is very kind to the forgetful souls. He therefore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions and also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls back to Godhead.
- Krsna is so kind, He leaves book, He leaves representative, and He comes Himself. In so many ways He is trying to give us the benefit. Asura: we do not take the advantage, and continually suffer, birth after birth we suffer.
- Because the people of this age are fallen, the Lord is kind enough to give them the easiest method. Simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, one can attain the same results.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the entire cosmic manifestation and the process of devotional service are testaments to the Lord's absolute mercy. Śrīla Prabhupāda concludes that God is so kind that He utilizes every possible avenue to invite the conditioned souls back to their eternal home. By recognizing this causeless mercy, a sincere living entity naturally abandons the futile pursuit of material sense gratification and gratefully surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because the Lord is always waiting patiently in the heart as Paramātmā, He immediately reciprocates with any soul who shows even a slight inclination toward Him, guaranteeing their safe return to the spiritual world.
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