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When the devotee meets with Kṛṣṇa in great eagerness, that state of meeting is called perfection. In the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura describes how Kṛṣṇa meets His devotee – with peacock feather
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Ways of Meeting Kṛṣṇa
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When Kṛṣṇa and His devotees meet, the meeting is technically called yoga, or linking up with the Lord Such meetings between Kṛṣṇa and His devotees can be divided into three classes – namely, perfection,
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When Kṛṣṇa was residing in Dvārakā, some of the elderly members of the Yadu family would occasionally At such a time, Kṛṣṇa would carefully give attention to those matters. And if there were some humorous topics mentioned, Kṛṣṇa would immediately respond with a smiling face Sometimes when Kṛṣṇa was executing His duties in the assembly known as Sudharmā, He would ask the elderly
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favorable for devotional service, to reject everything unfavorable for devotional service, to believe that Kṛṣṇa protection, to identify oneself with Kṛṣṇa’s devotees, always to feel inability without the help of Kṛṣṇa and always to think oneself inferior to Kṛṣṇa, even though one may have full capacity to perform something When one is substantially convinced that he is always protected by Kṛṣṇa in all circumstances, that feeling
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When a devotee is ultimately situated in association with Kṛṣṇa, his position is called steadiness in described there how Akrūra, who was considered by the gopīs to be terror personified, would talk with Kṛṣṇa He would always massage the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa while kneeling down on the ground before Him.
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So actual linking up with Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, begins when the devotee renders Sometimes they sit down in front of Kṛṣṇa to receive orders. service as actual bhakti-yoga, and in some of the Purāṇas also this servitorship in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa But Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has clearly indicated that the servitor relationship with Kṛṣṇa is the actual beginning
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Kṛṣṇa’s personal servant, Dāruka, seeing Kṛṣṇa at the door of Dvārakā, forgot to offer Him respects with
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When a devotee meets Kṛṣṇa after long separation, the meeting is one of satisfaction. In the First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, eleventh chapter, verse 10, it is stated that when Lord Kṛṣṇa This is an instance of satisfaction in meeting Kṛṣṇa after long separation.
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Śukadeva Gosvāmī tells King Parīkṣit, “My dear King, as soon as Akrūra the chariot driver saw Lord Kṛṣṇa These are some of the instances of perfectional meetings with Kṛṣṇa.
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that when devotees are engaged in the discharge of bhakti-yoga, sometimes they cry from thinking of Kṛṣṇa
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verse 34, Prahlāda Mahārāja says to his friends, “My dear friends, as soon as pure devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa