Story 25 Krsna's headache
So, the point is that superficially it may appear, sometimes,
against the social and religious rules and regulations, but if it is done for Kṛṣṇa…
Ānukūlye… Bhakti means ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanam [Madhya 19.167].
Kṛṣṇa should be satisfied.
That is bhakti.
It doesn’t matter.
Kṛṣṇa should be satisfied;
just like Kṛṣṇa pretended that He was sick, and many physicians came.
He said, “No physician [can cure] Me.
If some devotee gives Me the dust of his feet on My head, then I can be cured.”
So all devotees were asked.
And nobody… “Oh! [How] can I give… My dust on the head of Kṛṣṇa?
How it is possible?”
Nobody [was] prepared.
Then Kṛṣṇa asked that, “Go to Vṛndāvana.
Just ask the gopīs if they can give—they are My best friends—if they are prepared?
I am very much suffering from headache.”
So nobody was prepared to go…
As soon as gopīs were approached: “Oh, Kṛṣṇa is sick.
[He] wanted; oh, dust of…?”
Immediately: “Please take.
Please take.”
[They] did not care that,
“We are going to hell by offering our dust of feet on the head of Kṛṣṇa.
Never mind; we shall go; Kṛṣṇa will be happy; that’s all.”
Kṛṣṇa will be happy.
This is bhakti.
It doesn’t matter the whole world is going to hell,
but if Kṛṣṇa is satisfied, a devotee’s prepared to do that.
That is Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
That is called uttama-bhakti.
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