NBS#273 | Happiness And Distress
Nityam Bhagavata Sevaya E-magazine
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Devotees of the Supreme Lord experience both happiness and distress—not as consequences of material work but as incidental effects of their loving reciprocation with the Lord. Srila Rupa Goswami, in Śrī Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, his definitive treatise on the process of devotional service, explains how a Vaishnava is relieved of all karmic reactions, including those that have not yet begun to manifest (aprārabdha), those that are just about to manifest (kūṭa), those that are barely manifesting (bīja) and those that have manifested fully (prārabdha). As a lotus gradually loses its many petals, so a person who takes shelter of devotional service has all his karmic reactions destroyed.
Lord Shiva Saved from Vrikasura
By the disciples of His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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