Perhaps all devotees wonder at some point if the Lord can hear their chanting, their prayers, their inner lives. The desire to have Him respond is in itself sufficient to begin the establishment of faith, and His response occurs without delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pretending to tire, Lord Baladeva laid His head upon the lap of a cowherd boy and rested as Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a helped relieve His elder brother\u2019s fatigue by massaging His feet. Then K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a also placed His head on the lap of a cowherd boy to rest, and another cowherd boy massaged His feet. In this way K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Balar\u0101ma and Their cowherd friends enjoyed various pastimes.<\/em> Srila Prabhupada, Krsna Book, Chapter 15, The Killing of Dhenuka<\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wondered, can He hear my chanting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grace is instantaneous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I immediately felt He was attentively listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n . <\/p>\n\n\n\n Did I dare to think He was pleased, that in fact I had called and He glanced in this direction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did He rest for some moments in that realm without time<\/p>\n\n\n\n and enjoy the sounds, the vibrations softly flowing around the raincloud-blue body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n\n\n\n A voice transformed by the mercy of faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n from an old man\u2019s clumsy muttering to the sound vibration of the holiest of names,<\/p>\n\n\n\n finding the receptive, deep, and eternal source,<\/p>\n\n\n\n moving into realms of complete communion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps all devotees wonder at some point if the Lord can hear their chanting, their prayers, their inner lives. The desire to have Him respond is in itself sufficient to begin the establishment of faith, and His response occurs without delay. . Pretending to tire, Lord Baladeva laid His head upon the lap of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetrybyjayanta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"