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The Nectar of Devotion
There are two kinds of devotees engaged in devotional service with awe and veneration, and the servitors in the abode of Dvārakā always worship Kṛṣṇa as the most respectable and revered Personality of Godhead. They are captivated by Kṛṣṇa because of His super-excellent opulences. The members who always thought themselves protected by Kṛṣṇa could readily convert their conviction into practical demonstration, because it was sometimes found that the sons of Kṛṣṇa acted very unlawfully in various places. Nonetheless they were given full protection by Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma.
Even Balarāma, the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa, sometimes unknowingly offered respect to Him. Once when Kṛṣṇa came before Lord Balarāma, He was anxious to offer His respects to His elder brother, but at that time Balarāma’s club was lowered down upon Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet. In other words, the club in Balarāma’s hand offered its own respects to Kṛṣṇa. These feelings of subordination, as explained above, are sometimes manifested as  anubhāva .
When demigods from the heavenly planets came to Śrī Krṣṇa, all of Krṣṇa’s sons followed them, and Lord Brahmā sprinkled water from his  kamaṇḍalu  upon them. When the demigods came before Krṣṇa, instead of sitting on golden chairs, the sons sat down on the floor, which was covered with deerskin.
Sometimes the behavior of Krṣṇa’s sons appears similar to the behavior of His personal servants. For example, the sons used to offer their obeisances, they were silent, submissive and gentle, and they were always ready to carry out Krṣṇa’s orders, even at the risk of life. When present before Krṣṇa, they bowed down on the ground. They were very silent and steady, and they used to restrain coughing and laughing before the Lord. Also, they never discussed Krṣṇa’s pastimes in conjugal love. In other words, devotees who are engaged in reverential devotional service should not discuss the conjugal love affairs of Krṣṇa. No one should claim his eternal relationship with Krṣṇa unless he is liberated. In the conditioned state of life, the devotees have to execute the prescribed duties as recommended in the codes of devotional service. When one is mature in devotional service and is a realized soul, he can know his own eternal relationship with Krṣṇa. One should not artificially try to establish some relationship. In the