“The best way to please the Lord during this lockdown is to prepare nice and palatable foodstuffs.”
His Grace Sundar Gopāl Prabhu supervising the kitchen and cooking with great enthusiasm for the pleasure of their lordships, Śrī Śrī Rādhā Madanamohana, Jagannātha,Baladeva,Subhadrā Mayī, Gaura Nitāi and Śrīla Prabhupāda 🌸🌺
During this difficult time where most devotees can no more attend the festivals and temple programs and indulge in the temple services, to see Prabhu give his valuable association to the temple devotees to serve their lordships is immensely inspiring to all the devotees and is motivating them to make the endeavor to sincerely serve their lordships with full conviction and devotion.
We too have become very enthusiastic in thinking of new and new recipes to prepare daily in serving their Lordships
By so doing we are at the least inconvenience by all the hardship that we all are currently facing.
It is said-
nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve
na kutaścana bibhyati
svargāpavarga-narakeṣv
api tulyārtha-darśinaḥ
Translation-
“Devotees solely engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, never fear any condition of life. For them the heavenly planets, liberation and the hellish planets are all the same, for such devotees are interested only in the service of the Lord.” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.17.28)
In other places, it is also said-
“na hy aṅgopakrame dhvaṁso
mad-dharmasyoddhavāṇv api
mayā vyavasitaḥ samyaṅ
nirguṇatvād anāśiṣaḥ”
Translation-
“My dear Uddhava, because I have personally established it, this process of devotional service unto Me is transcendental and free from any material motivation. Certainly a devotee never suffers even the slightest loss by adopting this process.” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.29.20)
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
hanta te kathayiṣyāmi
mama dharmān su-maṅgalān
yān śraddhayācaran martyo
mṛtyuṁ jayati durjayam
Translation-
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I shall describe to you the principles of devotion to Me, by executing which a mortal human being will conquer unconquerable death.” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.29.8)
aho mahātman bahu-doṣa-duṣṭo
’py ekena bhāty eṣa bhavo guṇena
sat-saṅgamākhyena sukhāvahena
kṛtādya no yena kṛśā mumukṣā
Translation-
“ ‘O great learned devotee, although there are many faults in this material world, there is one good opportunity — the association with devotees. Such association brings about great happiness. Due to this good quality, our strong desire to achieve liberation by merging into the Brahman effulgence has become weakened.’(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 24. 125)
We are praying to the lord for the welfare of the world and we are trying to make sincere efforts so that their lordships gets pleased and help all of us get out of this predicament safely. Hare Krishna.All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda 🙏🏻🙏🏻
