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The Nectar of Devotion
tional stage. Lord Caitanya also desired that “a moment will appear unto Me as twelve years of time, and the whole world will appear to Me as vacant on account of not seeing You, My dear Lord.” One should feelingly pray and become eager to render his particular type of service to the Lord.  2  This is the teaching of all great devotees, especially Lord Caitanya.
In other words, one should learn how to cry for the Lord. One should learn this small technique, and he should be very eager and actually cry to become engaged in some particular type of service. This is called  laulyam , and such tears are the price for the highest perfection. If one develops this  laulyam , or excessive eagerness for meeting and serving the Lord in a particular way, that is the price to enter into the kingdom of God. Otherwise, there is no material calculation for the value of the ticket by which one can enter the kingdom of God. The only price for such entrance is this  laulyam lālasāmayī , or desire and great eagerness.
Prayers
According to great learned scholars, the whole  Bhagavad-gītā  contains many authorized prayers, especially in the Eleventh Chapter, where Arjuna prays to the universal form of the Lord. Similarly, in the  Gautamīya Tantra  all the verses are called prayers. Again in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , there are hundreds of prayers to the Lord. So a devotee should select some of these prayers for his recitation. In the  Skanda Purāṇa  the glories of these prayers are stated as follows: “Devotees whose tongues are decorated always with prayers to Lord Kṛṣṇa are always given respect even by the great saintly persons and sages, and such devotees are actually worshipable by the demigods.”
Those who are less intelligent want to worship different demigods for some material gain rather than worship Kṛṣṇa. But here it is stated that a devotee who is always engaged in offering prayers to the Lord is worshipable even by the demigods themselves. The pure devotees have nothing to ask from any demigod, but rather the demigods are anxious to offer prayers to the pure devotees.