175 The Nectar of Devotion
28. Possessing Equilibrium

A person who is unaffected by attachment and envy is said to
possess equilibrium.

An example of Krsna’s equilibrium is given in the Tenth Canto,
16th Chapter, 29th verse, of Srimad-Bhagavatam in connection with
His chastising Kaliya, the hundred-headed serpent. While Kaliya was
being severely punished, all of his wives appeared before the Lord
and prayed as follows: ““My dear Lord, You have descended to punish
all kinds of demoniac living creatures. Our husband, this Kaliya, is a
greatly sinful creature, and so Your punishment for him is quite
appropriate. We know that Your punishment for Your enemies and
Your dealings with Your sons are both the same. We know that it is
in thinking of the future welfare of this condemned creature that
You have chastised him.”

In another prayer it is said, ““My dear Lord Krsna, best of all the
Kuru dynasty, You are so impartial that even if Your enemy is quali-
fied, You will reward him; and if one of Your sons is a culprit, You
will chastise him. This is Your business, because You are the supreme
author of universes. You have no partiality. If anyone finds any par-
tiality in Your characteristics, he is surely mistaken.”

29, Magnanimous

Any person who is very charitably disposed is called magnanimous.

When Krsna was reigning over Dvaraka, He was so magnanimous
and charitably disposed that there was no limit to His charity. In
fact, so great was His charity in Dvaraka that even the spiritual king-
dom, with all of its opulence of cintamani (touchstone), desire trees
and surabhi cows, was surpassed. In the spiritual kingdom of Lord
Krsna, named Goloka Vrndavana, there are surabhi cows which give
unlimited quantities of milk. There are desire trees from which any-
one can take all kinds of fruits, as much as he may desire. The land
is made of touchstone, which when touched to iron will transform it
into gold. In other words, although in the spiritual kingdom, the
abode of Krsna, everything is wonderfully opulent, still when Krsna
