Bhagavatam-daily 16 – 11.07.06 – The light of devotion illumines this dark age

Thank you Krishna is speaking to Uddhava and is telling him how he should deal with the dark situations that are going to come when he Krishna will depart from the world and Kali will take control of the world from to give up everything give up your attachments to your old people, to your relatives fix your mind on me completely and then move about in this world with an equal vision see everything as ultimately my arrangement as having no effect on you at all but only as an opportunity for coming closer to me so actually when we live in this world there are so many things which keep distracting us from Krishna and those things distract us often by promising pleasure or by threatening trouble now when we feel that we can deal with those issues that we can get the pleasure or that we can avoid the trouble then we continue endeavouring at our level and at this level unless we are very devoted to God God doesn’t come into our consideration much unless of course we consider him as somebody who can help us in setting wrong things right and helping us make the right things better this level of relationship with God is not bad it’s definitely better than atheism or just pure materialism but still this relationship is not sustainable because sooner or later the material world will show its true colours and when it shows how dangerous how not just dangerous but treacherous treacherous means it promises pleasure and then betrays us by giving us pain that is treachery so Bhaktivinoda Thakur would say that this world is like a treacherous soil it appears to be easy to walk but when you try to walk you slip and fall so when the dangers of the world come swooping down upon us and when we see no chance for escape at that time we realise that oh the only saviour beyond the misery of material existence is Krishna that way by taking shelter of God we can move from lower pleasures and lower level of consciousness to a higher level of consciousness now essentially Krishna is telling here there are certain things which you like to do certain things you don’t like to do emphasize those things don’t downplay those things and then

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Swam tu sarvam parityajya, sneham swajana bandhushu, mainyabhesha manhasamyak, samadruk vicharaswakam Srimad Bhagavatam 11.7.6 Krishna is speaking to Uddhava and he is telling him how he should deal with the dark situations that are going to come when he Krishna will depart from the world and Kali will take control of the world Swam tu sarvam parityajya, give up everything, sneham swajana bandhushu, give up your attachments to your old people, to your relatives mainyabhesha manhasamyak, fix your mind on me completely samadruk vicharaswakam and then move about in this world with an equal vision seeing everything as ultimately my arrangement as having no effect on you but only as an opportunity for coming closer to me so actually when we live in this world there are so many things which keep distracting us from Krishna and those things distract us often by promising pleasure or by threatening trouble now when we feel that we can deal with those issues that we can get the pleasure or that we can avoid the trouble then we continue endeavouring at our level and at this level unless we are very devoted to God God doesn't come into our consideration much unless of course we consider him as somebody who can help us in setting wrong things right and helping us make the right things better this level of relationship with God is not bad it's definitely better than atheism or just pure materialism but still this relationship is not sustainable because sooner or later the material world will show its true colours and when it shows how dangerous, how not just dangerous but treacherous treacherous means it promises pleasure and then betrays us by giving us pain that is treachery so Bhaktivinoda Thakur would say that this world is like a treacherous soil it appears to be easy to walk but when you try to walk you slip and fall so when the dangers of the world comes swooping down upon us and when we see no chance for escape at that time we realise that oh the only saviour beyond the misery of material existence is Krishna that way by taking shelter of God we can move from lower pleasures and lower level of consciousness to a higher level of consciousness now essentially Samadrup Kucharaswagam Krishna is telling here and there are certain things which you like to do certain things you don't like to do emphasise those things don't downplay those things and then.