0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,346 Story 25 Krsna's headache 1 00:00:01,347 --> 00:00:08,917 So, the point is that superficially it may appear, sometimes, 2 00:00:08,918 --> 00:00:17,955 against the social and religious rules and regulations, but if it is done for Kṛṣṇa… 3 00:00:17,956 --> 00:00:23,217 Ānukūlye… Bhakti means ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanam [Madhya 19.167]. 4 00:00:23,218 --> 00:00:25,549 Kṛṣṇa should be satisfied. 5 00:00:25,550 --> 00:00:27,095 That is bhakti. 6 00:00:27,096 --> 00:00:30,198 It doesn’t matter. 7 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:31,364 Kṛṣṇa should be satisfied; 8 00:00:31,365 --> 00:00:39,210 just like Kṛṣṇa pretended that He was sick, and many physicians came. 9 00:00:39,211 --> 00:00:41,087 He said, “No physician [can cure] Me. 10 00:00:41,088 --> 00:00:49,099 If some devotee gives Me the dust of his feet on My head, then I can be cured.” 11 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,629 So all devotees were asked. 12 00:00:51,630 --> 00:00:56,570 And nobody… “Oh! [How] can I give… My dust on the head of Kṛṣṇa? 13 00:00:56,571 --> 00:00:58,533 How it is possible?” 14 00:00:58,534 --> 00:01:01,064 Nobody [was] prepared. 15 00:01:01,065 --> 00:01:03,816 Then Kṛṣṇa asked that, “Go to Vṛndāvana. 16 00:01:03,817 --> 00:01:09,796 Just ask the gopīs if they can give—they are My best friends—if they are prepared? 17 00:01:09,797 --> 00:01:13,264 I am very much suffering from headache.” 18 00:01:13,265 --> 00:01:14,860 So nobody was prepared to go… 19 00:01:14,861 --> 00:01:18,468 As soon as gopīs were approached: “Oh, Kṛṣṇa is sick. 20 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:19,916 [He] wanted; oh, dust of…?” 21 00:01:19,917 --> 00:01:24,663 Immediately: “Please take. 22 00:01:24,664 --> 00:01:26,367 Please take.” 23 00:01:26,368 --> 00:01:27,733 [They] did not care that, 24 00:01:27,734 --> 00:01:31,281 “We are going to hell by offering our dust of feet on the head of Kṛṣṇa. 25 00:01:31,282 --> 00:01:36,190 Never mind; we shall go; Kṛṣṇa will be happy; that’s all.” 26 00:01:36,191 --> 00:01:39,133 Kṛṣṇa will be happy. 27 00:01:39,134 --> 00:01:41,466 This is bhakti. 28 00:01:41,467 --> 00:01:44,642 It doesn’t matter the whole world is going to hell, 29 00:01:44,643 --> 00:01:48,316 but if Kṛṣṇa is satisfied, a devotee’s prepared to do that. 30 00:01:48,317 --> 00:01:50,307 That is Śrī Kṛṣṇa. 31 00:01:50,308 --> 00:02:00,505 That is called uttama-bhakti. 32 00:02:00,506 --> 00:02:00,507 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com