The Lover's Life - 5b

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When the lover adores the Beloved, that

adoration, as well His love merge and are felt every where.

It is a state of Total Love where in all things and

at all times and places. Hari's presence is

felt.<br>The lover is bathed in perfect unity and there is no

cause great enough to ever justify abandoning that

connection for another.<br><br>And yet the Bhaktas of Braja,

the Gopis, the Gurus of Devotion Who had attained

Love, Attachment and Addiction have prayed to

Hari.<br>Their requests to Krishna were special.<br>Even if they

requested their Beloved to remove a forest fire or to have

Indra stop showering his rain, their root supplication

was to have the continual shelter of His

feet.<br>They could withstand the forest blaze, but were

consumed by the fire of separation from His lotus

feet.<br><br>Prayers for His love, a request for His presence, for His

lotus feet are not the same as prayers for worldly

prosperity. The lover cannot engage in the world without

Him.<br>Her pleas are for the rendezvous. The lover's

requests have special meanings.<br><br>Bhaktas do not pray

for selfprotection. Their song arises out of a

longing for their Beloved. There is never any self gain

or worldly design in their supplication.<br>The

Bhakta's town, the village of Gokul is their reward and

Hari arrives there with the sole purpose of

Lila.<br>He becomes the Award Giver and responds to the

Bhaava of His Bhaktas.<br>The Beloved overflows with

elixir and according to the vessel, He fills His loved

ones with His essential Being.<br><br>The Beloved's

Play appears to be like the world, but unlike common

manifestation, everything about Hari is filled with Divine

meaning and Wonder.<br>When the Beloved decides to create

a particular Play, to perform a certain Lila, then

everything necessary occurs.<br>His acts and engagements are

for the highest purpose, they are filled with

incredible dharma. His bhaktas understand this and act

accordingly.<br><br>The Beloved plays in such a way that His Lovers

become enveloped in Him.<br>Their prayers and

aspirations are all for His benefit and replete with lila

meaning.<br><br>Even after the lover renounces everything except her

Beloved's sanctuary,<br>He still acts according to His own

will.<br><br>Jaya Sri Radhey!