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Jo ananda sindhu sukh raasi scekar se trailok supasi. "He satisfies according to the desires of the devotee. He fills all with the nectar of happiness."
Have you tasted the juice of a mango? How sweet it is! Who has filled it with this sweet juice? And, how beautiful are the peacock's feathers. Have you ever noticed? Mavaraschitrata yen. Who colors them with such beauty? So, he is both colorful and juicy (nectar). There is a beautiful story in the tales by Thakur Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Let me tell you the story of a dyer.
The dyer sat in the middle of the market with a pot of dye. One person came and asked for his cloth to be dyed red. The dyer took the cloth, dipped it into the dye and when he brought it out it was dyed red. Another person came with a cloth to be dyed green and he was given a green cloth. He who wanted blue was given blue. He who asked for yellow received it dyed yellow. The dyeing continued the whole day as the dyer sat there with his pot.
When evening came and it was time to close, the dyer saw a gentleman there with a cloth for dyeing. This man stood watching but he did not speak. The dyer called him and said, "Brother, you have been here since morning and now the shops are about to close. Why did you not ask? What color do you want?" He smiled and said, "I want my cloth dyed with the color of the dye in your pot. I do not want any other color. What color is it that enables you to dye cloth according to people's desires? How is it that from the same pot you are able to dye with the colors red, green, blue, yellow etc.? I want the color of the dye in your pot." When the dyer showed the man the pot there was no dye in it, it was empty.
Goswami says in the Manas that God is the same as this. Yadyapi sam nahin raag na rosu gahahin na paap punya guna doshu. Tadapi karhin sam visham achaaraa bhagat abhagat hridaya
anusaaraa.
It does not take much for the God of form to become formless if the devotee desires it. Babaji says, when Bhagavati Parvati asked Lord Shiva how to introduce Lord Ram who resides in the heart, the Indian philosophy flowed out of his lips,
Jhoothahun satya jahin binu jaane Jimi bhujang binu raju pahichaane Jehi jane jag jai herai
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