Krishna’s unique mercy on the Vrajavasis
Though elsewhere he is worshipped and revered by all as the Supreme Lord, here [in Vraja], as the life of all the inhabitants, he sometime descends to the worshipper’s level and sometimes becomes his subordinate. If it were not like this, could the lowly living entity have a relation of love with God? Can the Lord, who is filled with the highest sport, endowed with free will, and eager for the love of the soul, hanker for man’s offering of worship or feel genuinely satisfied with it? Krsna, the reservoir of sweet pastimes, thus covers his majestic aspect with sweetness, accepts equality with or subordination to qualified souls in transcendental Vrndavana, and feels bliss.
Chaitanya Shikshamrita, Bhaktivinoda Thakura