Whom does He protect?

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Srimad Bhagavatham 1.7

 

He is undoubtedly known as partial to His pure devotees, but in fact He is never

partial, as much as the sun is never partial to anyone. By utilizing the sun

rays, sometimes even the stones become valuable, whereas a blind man cannot see

the sun, although there are enough sun rays before him. Darkness and light are

two opposite conceptions, but this does not mean that the sun is partial in

distributing its rays. The sun rays are open to everyone, but the capacities of

the receptacles differ

 

Those who are completely against the service of the Lord are considered to be in

abject darkness, those who ask for the Lord's favor only at the time of

necessity are partial recipients of the mercy of the Lord, and those who are

cent percent engaged in the service of the Lord are full recipients of the mercy

of the Lord. Such partiality in receiving the Lord's mercy is relative to the

recipient, and it is not due to the partiality of the all-merciful Lord.

 

When the Lord descends on this material world by His all-merciful energy, He

plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to

His devotees only, but that is not a fact. Despite such apparent manifestation

of partiality, His mercy is equally distributed. In the Battlefield of

Kuruksòetra all persons who died in the fight before the presence of the Lord

got salvation without the necessary qualifications because death before the

presence of the Lord purifies the passing soul from the effects of all sins, and

therefore the dying man gets a place somewhere in the transcendental abode.

Somehow or other if someone puts himself open in the sun rays, he is sure to get

the requisite benefit both by heat and by ultraviolet rays. Therefore, the

conclusion is that the Lord is never partial. It is wrong for the people in

general to think of Him as partial.

 

Jai SrimanNarayana