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wonder and immediately accepts it and puts it on His heart.”

Similarly, in the Tenth Canto, 2nd Chapter, 27th verse of Srimad-
Bhagavatam, Lord Brahma says: “‘My dear Madhusidana, persons
who are pure devotees of Your Lordship actually feel Your ecstatic
friendship, and as such they are never vanquished by enemies. They
know they are always protected by You, and so they can matter-of-
factly pass over the heads of their enemies without any care.” In
other words, one who has taken complete shelter under the lotus feet
of the Lord is always proud of being able to conquer all enemies.

One weaver at Mathura addressed Krsna in this way: “My dear
King of Vrndavana, I have become so proud of Your causeless mercy
upon me that I do not even count upon the mercy of the lord of
Vaikuntha, which is sought after by many great sages in deep medita-
tion.” In other words, although the yogis and great sages sit in medi-
tation upon Lord Visnu, who is residing in Vaikuntha, a devotee of
Krsna is so proud that he does not consider such meditation to be
very valuable. This feeling of pride is due to one’s having achieved the
highest goal of life—Krsna.

Doubt

After Lord Brahma had stolen all of the calves, cows and cowherd
boys from Krsna, he was trying to go away. But all of a sudden he
became doubtful about his stealing affairs and began to watch on all
sides with his eight eyes. Lord Brahma has four heads, and therefore
he has eight eyes. This is an instance of ecstatic love in doubtfulness,
caused by stealing.

Similarly, just to please Krsna, Akrira stole the Syamantaka-mani,
a stone which can produce unlimited quantities of gold, but later on
he repented his stealing. This is another instance of ecstatic love for
Krsna in doubt caused by stealing.

The King of heaven, Indra, was advised to surrender himself at the
lotus feet of Krsna when he was causing torrents of rain to fall on the
land of Braja. At that time Indra’s face became very darkened out of
doubtfulness.
