I am a fallen soul | Wisdom Munches 4 | Chaitanya Charan

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thank you have any of you heard of this statement hmm so now what happens is when we hear when we make this statement we make this part fallen so big that we forget this whole part that I am fallen well bhakti means sarvopadi vinirmuktam to become free from all designations and fallen is also a temporary designation just like to think I am a man, I am a woman I am Indian, I am American, I am young, I am old these are designations these are temporary so fallen is also temporary designation so just as identifying too much with our physical beauty or lack of beauty with our any over identifying with any identity other than the fact that we are souls or parts of Krishna is a problem similarly over identifying with our fallen state is also a problem so if we identify more with the fallen part than the soul part then we may be thinking that I am having humility but we are not having humility we are having self pity and self pity is a form of maya because it is completely self centered oh I am so fallen, I am so fallen, I am so fallen I am so fallen ok ok you are fallen but what next ok how can you serve Krishna I am so fallen ok you are fallen but how can you serve Krishna it is not that just because I am fallen I stop being a servant of Krishna Krishna is so inclusive that even in my fallen state I can serve him and that needs to be accepted so we don’t over identify with our fallen state, ok I have a particular desire I can’t give it up fine, work with that desire so now we want to look for examples of say working on our desires there are examples say of Yayati he indulged and then he just renounced the world we have, now with respect to Yayati it is described that there is a very interesting phrase that is used over there it is said that when Yayati got the realization he renounced the world like a bird who has developed wings and flies away so now it is not that the bird does something special wings come out, wings come out, wings come out the bird is trying, trying, trying maybe flapping its wings trying and one day the wings are there and the bird flies away so the bird’s trying is important but the bird’s trying is not going to accelerate the growing of wings when the wings come then the flight becomes natural so for all of us we want the wings to come so that we can fly in the sky of service without being pulled down by the gravity of our worldly desires and we can keep serving more and more and more, but that will happen in its own way that will happen by Krishna’s mercy at a particular time what is that time? we can’t predict that and one aspect of being surrendered is to accept the condition we are in and to serve Krishna in that condition so that’s what Krishna tells Arjuna that this war is inevitable you want to serve me? the way you want to serve is accept that this war is going to happen and see how you can serve me within this war situation