37 / Impetuses for Krsna's Service
The causeless mercy of Kṛṣṇa, the dust of His lotus feet, His  prasādam  and association with His devotees are some impetuses toward a devotee's engagement in transcendental loving service to the Lord.
Krṣṇa exhibited His causeless mercy when He was present at the departure of Grandfather Bhīṣma. During the Battle of Kurukṣetra, Bhīṣmadeva, the grandfather of Arjuna, was lying on a bed of arrows before departing from this mortal world. When Lord Krṣṇa, Mahārāj Yudhiṣṭhira and the other Pāṇḍavas approached Bhīṣmadeva, he was very grateful to Lord Krṣṇa, and he addressed the  brāhmaṇa  military commander, Krpācārya, thus: “My dear Krpācārya, just see the wonderful causeless mercy of Lord Krṣṇa! I am most unfortunate. I have no qualifications. I was opposing Krṣṇa’s most intimate friend, Arjuna—I even tried to  kill  him! I have so many disqualifications, and yet the Lord is still so kind that He has come to see me at the last point of my life. He is worshipable by all great sages, but still He is so merciful that He has come to see an abominable person like me.”
Sometimes the vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s flute, His bugling, His smiling, His footmarks on the ground, the transcendental fragrance of His body and the appearance of a new cloud in the sky also become impetuses for ecstatic love of Him.
In the  Vidagdha-mādhava  there is the following statement: “When Kṛṣṇa was playing on His flute, Baladeva very anxiously declared, ‘Just see how, after hearing the transcendental sound of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, Indra the King of heaven is crying in his heavenly kingdom!
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