"What Is It That Lord Krishna Reciprocates With?" By H.H. Jayapataka Swami.

So how we can realize that Ka is giving us his mercy as we're surrendering to Krishna through his bona fide representative, Krishna reciprocates with our surrender. And we can realize through this practical experiment of devotional service how it's working. Just like by chanting Hare Ka, one's gradually able to control the mind. But this is also a science. If we commit offenses against the holy name of Vaishnava, then we lose the protection. We have to be very careful not to commit any offenses. Offenses are to the Vaishnavas are described as Matal Hati or mad elephant offense. Matal means mat intoxicated. So matal hati means elephant. So when a man elephant comes into the garden, just ripping out everything, pulls out the trees right from the root. When that happens, the leaves don't dry up immediately, right? Takes a few days for them to dry up. Maybe a week, 10 days. Gradually, because the root is pulled out from the ground, the they start to turn brown and they dry. When we commit offense to the Vaishnavas, then this is what happens. Our spiritual people get uprooted. Gradually we lose the taste for our emotional service. Then material life starts to appear very attractive. Because we want to be happy. But if we're not giving spiritual happiness, then we look to material happiness. And this way we can go from being in devotional service to being back into my offenses. So we need to be very careful about these offenses. And if we pray to whoever we may have offended, we can get forgiven.