Independence of divine mercy

Respected Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

    Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

    When the Lord descends to this world and gives everyone a chance to directly engage in devotion to him, do the conditioned souls in the universe get that chance by the sukrti they have accumulated or does the Lord show his mercy only by the sole factor of his own will regardless of how much sukrti the conditioned jivas may have?

     The same thing for a Vaisnava's mercy also. Do we get the mercy of devotees only by their own will regardless of how much sukrti we may have, or does that also depend on the sukrti that we have accumulated?

     We have been very fortunate that we have been born in this rare Kali age which will never come again and I am fortunate to get all your mercy.

    My doubt is that have I done anything to deserve a Vaisnava's mercy or is it that whenever the Vaisnava appears, he distributes his mercy by his own independent will regardless of what our spiritual qualifications are (which can be called a manual override of our own free will and qualifications)?

    Do we get more devotional sukrti from whatever sukrti committed earlier (If that is so, then getting enough sukrti to come all the way to where we are is a completely beginningless process beyond time). Or is it because the Lord and the devotees make so many so-called 'accidental' arrangements by which we get sukrti? 

   If the second case is true, then it means that we can never be liberated and achieve devotional service without the mercy of the devotees. It must mean that any chance of liberation for any soul in the material world is possible only because the Lord and the Vaisnavas only and never by our ourselves. The activities of the conditioned soul are all material, and to get spiritual mercy is not possible by materialistic activites. Then that means we get the qualification only from the influence of higher authorities (the Lord and the Vaisnavas) and their various arrangements by which we unknowingly accumulate sukrti. Then we must just be open to the Lord and the Vaisnavas whenever they appear and it does not even require us to accept voluntarily, but only we must not reject it.

     Even when Vaisnavas give their mercy to the souls, some do not accept it even when it is forced into their mouths. Is this because of their previous karma which is stopping them or is because simply that they are misusing their own independence out of their own choice? For that matter, how can material karma interfere with acquiring spiritual sukrti?

 

Useless fool,

Srinath

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