2: Vatsalya Bhakti

The intimate, charming parental love for God

Once, the Sage Narad Muni saw the Supreme Lord (Who had assumed the form of a young boy) begging to be taken into the lap of a soul who had attained God-realisation through the relationship of parental love. Narad commented that, normally, it is the soul who begs to be taken into the lap of God, not the other way round. He sang praises of the soul’s extraordinary good fortune, expressing how rare such divine blessings were. In this talk Swami Govindananda gives us insight into the charm of this sublime realisation.