84 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: This is the teaching of all great devotees, espe-
cially 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 calcu-
lation for the value of the ticket by which one can enter the kingdom
of God. The only price for such entrance is this laulyam lalasamayi,
or desire and great eagerness.

Prayers

According to great learned scholars, the whole Bhagavad-gita con-
tains many authorized prayers, especially in the Eleventh Chapter,
where Arjuna prays to the universal form of the Lord. Similarly, in
the Gautamiya Tantra all the verses are called prayers. Again in the
Srimad-Bhdgavatam, there are hundreds of prayers to the Lord. So a
devotee should select some of these prayers for his recitation. In the
Skanda Purana the glories of these prayers are stated as follows:
“Devotees whose tongues are decorated always with prayers to Lord
Krsna 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 Krsna. 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.
