Bhagavatam-daily 101 – 11.08.17 – Let the ear lead to truth, not to illusion

Thank you. is used the word is used to refer to mundane materialistic songs one should not hear such songs yathir is the renunciate one who moves around one who lives in the forest at any time one should learn from harinath the deer how the harinath becomes mrugayor is the deer sorry mrugayor is not the deer it’s the hunter mrugari was the enemy of the animals mrugayor is the animal hunter gita mohita mohita deluded by the song now the brahmana is moving to another lesson which is learned from another creature in nature and that is the deer now deer are attracted to sweet music and when the hunters want to catch them now one challenge is deer can move quite fast also so they can run very fast and unless they are if they are running humans are not able to chase them and catch them and trap them so although the deer has the power to run away and the humans do not frequently have the power to outrun them or to catch them but the deer have a weakness and humans can and do exploit that weakness so hunters they know that deer can be attracted by music so normally we don’t consider hunters to be musicians but people have to learn whatever they have to learn for getting their living so somebody is living by hunting and the hunters learn music they focus especially on the music that can attract captivate and immobilize deer so the deer hears the music and as it hears instead of running away from the hunter the effect of that music is that the very person from whom the deer should have run away in fear the deer approaches that very person for pleasure thinking oh this person from this person’s sweet music is coming i want to hear this music more and more and more and then as the deer comes closer and closer and closer or even the deer doesn’t come close even the deer because of some subconscious biological instinct for self-preservation stops at some distance from the hunter but still it is not running away from the hunter and the deer will be caught by the hunter because it is not running away although it has the power to run away so similarly it is said that mundane music it out there the whole music industry is a giant industry and it produces millions and billions millions and millions of songs and albums and cds and things like that now with the multimedia within available through the internet accessible so now you often don’t even have to spend they can just click on the internet and often internet connections are available quite cheaply or freely at many places also through wi-fi then so people just plug in and then start hearing the music and as they keep hearing the music then it’s captivating so now materialistic people are going to get captivated but and they’re going to get entangled by that but those who are yatis and mancharis and especially those who are enunciates they shouldn’t hear such songs because through those songs the desire for sense gratification which those songs are expressing are going to enter into the ears and the hearts and the very thing that they want to avoid they will become attracted by that and traveled by that so the sustenance of the renounced order is resistance to the illusion that sense gratification needs to happen since gratification provides happiness this will as long as now the renunciates can see this belief this is the cardinal belief of material existence sense gratification will provide happiness and renunciates need to consistently persistency persistently determinately fight against this belief now this belief is actually a misbelief it is a false conception but it is being propagated from all directions practically speaking and renunciates need to fight this belief and to the extent that they can fight this belief to that extent they can stay firm in the renounced order so normally anyone who is going to propagate sense gratification they will go away from it now of course this verse applies primarily to renunciates because the of the brahmana is telling what he has learned but in principle it can apply to everyone also because even if somebody is not in the renounced order for that person also if the is a spiritual person spiritual seeker householders who are spiritual seekers they also need to regulate sense gratification and if they become they become um filled we could say poisoned by the desire by the belief that sense gratification leads to happiness then they will become bound and they will not uh they longer remain spiritual seekers or they become bound so even they have to to some extent resist the solution and the principle here is of how the very misconception that we want to resist against if that misconception is very appealingly marketed then we run towards and we embrace that misconception so either renunciates here or those who are spiritual seekers they hear mundane music then that music will make them feel as if oh this is what is missing in my life this is what i want to achieve this is what i must achieve and they will start pursuing sense gratification and thus they will get they will get caught by material desires and material illusion so fortunately for us we can spiritualize our desire to hear music so on the gyana marga one just has to say no to the desire to hear music but in the bhakti marga there is so much potent devotional music available now we have kirtans and there are so many wonderful devotees who sing kirtans and then we have bhajans and in fact the original purpose of music is to glorify krishna and the current use of music for glorifying sense gratification is a misdirection of the pure primal purpose of music so as devotees if we have and all of us have to some extent the thirst for hearing sweet music we don’t have to give it up but we definitely have to give it up when that music propagates sense gratification instead if we hear the songs glorifying krishna then that those songs they can be hare krishna maha mantra they can be bhajans they can be even some devotees may even find shloka recitation to be very spiritually nourishing so when we hear this these nourishes spiritually they energize us with spiritual desires because through the songs glorifying krishna the first of all when krishna is glorified there is a contact with krishna that is happening and when we hear those songs naturally we are contacting with secondly where the devotee is singing those songs and the devotee’s devotional desire is also something that we are contacting because that desire from the devotee’s heart comes out through the lips and comes through our ears into our heart so we get to connect with krishna who contact with whom also increases gives us some higher taste and inspires us to want and creates within us a hunger thirst for more contact with krishna so that itself is spiritual desire and further by hearing devotees sing by contacting their desire to glorify krishna we also get the desire to glorify krishna and in that way we can be saved from the temptation of worldly music and now we may not be able to hear all the time the songs about krishna and we may have to hear worldly sounds as a matter of functioning in this world that is fine the practical conversations and whatever practical necessities are there those we can function those we can do but we don’t we can cherish spiritual sounds and we can hear spiritual songs not just when others sing we can also sing even if we are not good singers the point of singing in devotion is not to get fame is not even to sing in tune if you can sing in tune that’s fine but the point is to connect with krishna and if and we all even if we have no musical talent still we have the capacity to sing the names of krishna to sing the glories of krishna to sing verses glorifying krishna and thereby keep our consciousness absorbed in spiritual sound vibrations and by keeping our consciousness spiritually absorbed spiritually permeated we can create around ourselves a spiritual vibrations defense shield sometimes in some sci-fi movies it is shown that some some fighters have a defense shield around them so no matter what happens come the weapons don’t penetrate and the warrior stays protected similarly when the weapons of material desire the material temptations are coming around us if we by reciting spiritual sounds can create a spiritual shield around us then that can protect us from those temptations and we can keep moving onwards steadily