Spiritualতব ইИা হয় যিদ তােদর উдার বুΝঝেব িনৈѥ তেব কথা েস েতামার (৭)
tava icchā haya yadi tādera uddhāra bujhibe niścaya-i tabe kathā se tomāra tava icchā—Your desire; haya—is; yadi—if; tādera—their; uddhāra— deliverance; bujhibe—they will comprehend; niścaya-i—definitely; tabe—then; kathā—message; se—that; tomāra—Your.
I wish that You may deliver them. Therefore, if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message. Commentary The desire of the Lord is vital. Therefore, Śrīla Prabhupāda prays again: tava icchā—Your desire. Without the Lord’s sanction, His goodwill, nothing can be accomplished. At the same time, the goodwill of a devotee is equally essential. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura therefore says in his prayer to the spiritual master: yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo—“By the mercy of the spiritual master, one obtains the mercy of the Lord.” Actually, it is very difficult to obtain the Lord’s mercy directly, without the via medium of His most confidential servants. However, it should be noted that a pure devotee never demands anything from the Lord. He will always formulate his request in such a way that the Lord’s desire is acknowledged as paramount. Therefore, Śrīla Prabhupāda makes his own desire subservient to the desire of the Lord: “If You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message.” In other words, he may present the message very expertly, but without being backed up by the will of the Lord, no one would understand.
We had a similar experience in 1977, when Śrīla Prabhupāda was very ill and we asked his permission to offer prayers to Kṛṣṇa for his recovery. At first, he was reluctant, but finally he relented, with the caveat that we include “if You so desire.” Our prayer was: “Dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, if You so desire, please cure Śrīla Prabhupāda.” The general understanding is that a devotee does not ask the Lord for anything, especially for his own benefit. Śrīla Prabhupāda often said that a devotee never approaches the Lord as if He were an order-supplier: “Please give me this, please give me that.” At the same time, it is also true that the Lord is eager to fulfill the desires of His pure devotee, because a pure devotee has no selfish desires and is not concerned about his own deliverance. Out of compassion, he is even prepared to preach under hellish conditions. Devotees are naturally the well-wishers of all living entities (suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām), and Kṛṣṇa is always ready to fulfill the desires of such selfless servants who do not want anything for themselves but are only concerned for the well-being of the suffering conditioned souls. This mood was exemplified by Prahlāda Mahārāja, who refused to accept a benediction for his personal benefit but asked the Lord to excuse his demoniac father Hiraṇyakaśipu for his sinful activities. Another important consideration is that the ability to understand the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness or to acquire spiritual knowledge does not depend solely on our own effort. Here also, the goodwill of the Lord is essential. We may engage in study and become erudite scholars, but that is not sufficient to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. The real qualification is that a person begins to serve the Lord with love and devotion and thus gains His favor. Then, as Kṛṣṇa promises in Bhagavad-gītā (10.10), He will enlighten the sincere practitioner from within the heart: dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te—“I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.” The next verses explain this process in detail.