Text 32] The Killing of the Demon Trnavarta 73
(9.30), bhajate mam ananya-bhak sddhur eva sa mantavyah: anyone
fully attached to Krsna is a sédhu. Nanda Maharaja and the gopis and
other cowherd men could not understand that Krsna was the Supreme
Personality of Godhead playing as a human child and that His life was
not in danger under any circumstances. Rather, because of their intense
parental love for Krsna, they thought that Krsna was an innocent child
and had been saved by the Supreme Lord.

In the material world, because of intense lust and desire for enjoy-
ment, one becomes implicated in sinful life more and more (kama esa
krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah). Therefore the quality of fear is
one of the aspects of material life (ahdra-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca).
But if one becomes Krsna conscious, the process of devotional service,
Sravanam kirtanam, diminishes one’s polluted life of material existence,
and one is purified and protected by the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Srnvatam sva-kathéh krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah. In devo-
tional life, one has faith in this process. Such faith is one of the six kinds
of surrender. Raksisyatiti visvasah (Hari-bhakti-vilasa 11.676). One of
the processes of surrender is that one should simply depend on Krsna,
convinced that He will give one all protection. That Krsna will protect
His devotee is a fact, and Nanda Mahdrdja and the other inhabitants of
Vrndavana accepted this very simply, although they did not know that
the Supreme Lord Himself was present before them. There have been
many instances in which a devotee like Prahlada Maharaja or Dhruva
Maharaja has been put in difficulty even by his father but has been saved
under all circumstances. Therefore our only business is to become Krsna
conscious and depend fully on Krsna for all protection.

TEXT 32
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