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THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
adhuneha mahā-bhāga 
    yathaiva narakān naraḥ 
    nānogra-yātanān neyāt 
    tan me vyākhyātum arhasi
“Sir, I have heard from you about the hellish planets. Men who are very sinful are sent to those planets.” [ Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  6.1.6] Parīkṣit Mahārāja is a Vaiṣṇava [devotee], and a Vaiṣṇava always feels compassion for others’ distress. He is very afflicted by the miseries of others. When Lord Jesus Christ presented himself, for instance, he was greatly afflicted by the miserable conditions of the people. Regardless of which country or sect they belong to, all Vaiṣṇavas, or devotees—any people who are God conscious, or Kṛṣṇa conscious—are thus compassionate. Therefore to blaspheme a Vaiṣṇava, a preacher of God’s glories, is a great offense.
Kṛṣṇa, God, is never tolerant of offenses committed at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava.  Kṛpāmbudhi : a Vaiṣṇava is an ocean of mercy.  Vāñchā-kalpa-taru : everyone has desires, but a Vaiṣṇava can fulfill all desires.  Kalpa-taru  means “desire tree.” There is a tree in the spiritual world which is called a desire tree. In this material world, you get a particular type of fruit from a particular type of tree, but in Kṛṣṇaloka as well as in all the Vaikuṇṭha planets, all the trees are spiritual and will fulfill all your desires. That is described in the  Brahma-saṁhitā :  cintāmaṇi-prakara-sad-masu kalpa-vṛkṣa .
A Vaiṣṇava is addressed as  mahā-bhāga , which means “fortunate.” One who becomes a Vaiṣṇava and is God conscious is understood to be greatly fortunate.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu has explained that the living entities are rotating in different species of life, in different planetary systems all over the universe. A living entity can go anywhere—to hell or heaven—as he likes and as he prepares himself. There are many heavenly planets, many hellish planets, and many species of life. There are 8,400,000 species of life. The living entity is rotating, wandering through these species and creating bodies according to his mentality in the present life. As you saw, so shall you reap.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that out of all these numberless living entities who are traveling in the material world, one is fortunate, not everyone. If everyone were fortunate, they would all have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is being distributed freely everywhere. But why are people not taking it? Because they are unfortunate. Therefore Caitanya