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Recorded on: 3 Dec 2004
Language: English, Hungarian, Croatian
Length: 0h 03m

God is not your slave -- but if you call from the deep of your heart, God will come.

The Lord arrives precisely when His devotees are in greatest distress. Consider Kṛṣṇa's birth. His parents, Devakī and Vasudeva, were imprisoned by her brother, the demon Kaṁsa. Terrified by a prophecy, Kaṁsa killed each of their newborn children by dashing them against a wall. This was utter despair, with no flute or joy, only profound suffering. Into this prison of anguish, Kṛṣṇa had to descend. Devakī's pure-hearted prayer in that moment exemplifies true devotion. The Lord's coming is inevitable for His devotees. He must arrive for their sake. Therefore, devotees call for Him to come swiftly.

"Tan mayā hojanā." "Tan mayā hojanā" means: become one—unite your body and soul in prayer. Immediately, He will be there.

"For the sake of the devotees, O Lord, O Mahāvīr, come. For the sake of the devotees, Lord, come as soon as possible."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Whenever devotees were in trouble, ultimately, Lord, You came. You had to come—but consider the depth of that trouble. Have you seen the great epic, the Mahābhārata? Do you know the circumstances of Kṛṣṇa’s birth? It was in a prison. Consider the condition of His mother and father in that prison. Kaṁsa, the demon Kaṁsa, was Devakī’s own brother. Every child born to Devakī he took into his hands and dashed against the wall, killing it. He did this because he had been told that a child of Devakī would become his enemy and slay him. As soon as her child was born, he killed it. He imprisoned his own sister and brother-in-law. This happened within moments, as soon as he received the news. No bamboo flute, no joyful sound—only that utter distress. That is called real trouble. He would take the newborn away and dash it against the wall before the eyes of the mother and father. Into such a situation Kṛṣṇa had to descend. And there, Devakī was calling upon the Lord with a pure heart. That is true prayer. "Tan mayā hojanā." "Tan mayā hojanā" means: become one—unite your body and soul in prayer. Immediately, He will be there. Thus it is said: whenever such a moment occurs, Lord, ultimately You had to come, and You came. For the sake of the devotees, O Lord, O Mahāvīr, come. For the sake of the devotees, Lord, come as soon as possible.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3
The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0
Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4

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