Texts 26-30] How Panksit Received the Age of Kali 869
Lord is never to be blamed. He is called the well-wisher for the devotees
only. He appears to be partial to His devotees, but factually the matter
rests on the living being to accept or reject equal treatment by the Lord.

The Lord never deviates from His word of honor. When He gives assur-
ance for protection, the promise is executed in all circumstances. It is the
duty of the pure devotee to be fixed up in the discharge of duty entrusted
to him by the Lord or the Lord’s bona fide representative, the spiritual
master. The rest is carried on by the Lord without a break.

Responsibility of the Lord is also unique. The Lord has no responsibility
because all His work is done by His different appointed energies. But still
He accepts voluntary responsibilities in displaying different roles in His
transcendental pastimes. As a boy, He was playing the part of a cowboy.
As the son of Nanda Maharaja, He discharged responsibility perfectly.
Similarly, when He was playing the part of a ksatriya as the son of
Maharaja Vasudeva, He displayed all the skill of a martially spirited ksatriya.
In almost all cases, the ksatriya king has to secure a wife by fighting or
kidnapping. This sort of behavior for a ksatriya is praiseworthy in the
sense that a ksatriya must show his power of chivalry before his would-be
wife so that the daughter of a ksatriya can see the valor of her would-be
husband. Even the Personality of Godhead Sri Rama displayed such a
spirit of chivalry during His marriage. He broke the strongest bow, called
Haradhanu, and achieved the hand of Sita Devi, the mother of all
opulence. The ksatriya spirit is displayed during marriage festivals, and
there is nothing wrong in such fighting. Lord Sri Krsna discharged such
responsibility fully because although He had more than 16,000 wives, in
each and every case He fought like a chivalrous ksatriya and thus secured
a wife. To fight 16,000 times to secure 16,000 wives is certainly only
possible by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, He displayed
full responsibility in every action of His different transcendental pastimes.

Item No. 14, knowledge, can be further extended into five subheadings,
namely 1) intelligence, 2) gratefulness, 3) power of understanding the
circumstantial environments of place, object and time, 4) perfect know-
ledge of everything, and 5) knowledge of the self. Only fools are ungrateful
to their benefactors. The Lord, however, does not require benefit from
anyone besides Himself because He is full in Himself; still He feels bene-
fited by the unalloyed services of His devotees. The Lord feels grateful to
His devotees for such unsophisticated, unconditional service and tries to
reciprocate it by rendering service, although the devotee also has no such
desire in his heart. The transcendental service of the Lord is itself a tran-
scendental benefit for the devotee, and therefore the devotee has nothing
