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Devotional Service Is Empowered by Mercy
“After some time the Lord would embrace these people and bid them return home, having invested each of them with spiritual potency.”
What the purport teaches
- The Lord embraced the people and sent them home, investing each with spiritual potency.
- This spiritual potency is the essence of the pleasure potency and the knowledge potency. Together, these potencies empower one with devotional service.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself or His representative, the unalloyed devotee, can mercifully bestow these potencies, enabling one to become an unalloyed devotee. Those favored by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received this bhakti-śakti and could preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness by divine grace.
Try this today
Before one act of devotional service today, pray for the Lord’s mercy to serve Him purely.
Ask yourself
How does seeing devotional service as a gift of mercy shape your approach to it?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.