CC daily 161 – M 6.237 – Singular focus on Krishna reflects not fanaticism but intensity of devotion and compassion

Thank you the narration of Sarvambhattacharya the exalted and devoted one pointedness of Sarvabhauma is now being described in two ways he did not know anything apart from the lotus feet of lord Chaitanya and without apart from bhakti he did not give any explanation of shastra this verse describes how both the heart and head of Sarvabhauma were completely redirected from impersonal conception to the personal conception how he recognizing that oh there is nothing apart from the lotus feet of lord Chaitanya he came to the highest level of spiritual wisdom eternally this is very similar to Vasudeva Sarvamiti Samatma Sudurlabha in 7.19 in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna states that Vasudeva Sarvamiti that Vasudeva lord Vishnu is everything Sarvamiti Sarvamiti there is no truth apart from him there is no truth higher than him now Krishna says over there that this takes it takes many lifetimes to come to this level of realization there is nothing apart from Krishna Bhaktivinoda Thakura also in one of his songs says that oh Krishna in Vidyaravila he says that at the end of cultivating all knowledge what I have understood is oh lord there is nothing other than you you oh lord are the ultimate truth so same mood is depicted here in Sarvamitacharya where he did not accept anything other than the lotus feet of lord Chaitanya this means not that he rejected everything else but he did not consider anything as higher than the lotus feet higher than the principle of mercy which manifests from the highest manifestation the absolute truth the personal manifestation so accepting the lotus feet as the as the only ultimate reality means two things first of all the personal manifestation of the absolute truth is accepted as the highest reality and secondly the personal and the mercy of the lord is also recognized as a vital necessity for spiritual growth Chaitanya just accepting the lord as the highest indicates acceptance of personal form and Charana the lotus feet indicate acceptance of the lotus feet of the lord as the highest reality means acceptance of the principle of mercy because when we bow down to someone we touch the lotus feet or we hold the lotus feet on the head that means that we accept that person is very powerful as compared to that we are utterly powerless and we need desperately the grace of grace coming from the lotus feet for our spiritual stability and maturity and eventually attainment of spiritual ecstasy so internally Sarovam accepted the lord and his mercy as the highest truth and accordingly he shared that same wisdom with others he had phenomenal intelligence and now he used all his phenomenal intelligence for sharing spiritual wisdom with others for helping others understand the highest reality that the ultimate purport of all scripture is bhakti after understanding there are many different paths taught in scripture but they all culminate in devotion Sarovam’s expertise was that he used his phenomenal intellectual prowess to reveal the connection of everything with bhakti not just the connection but the culmination of everything in bhakti and that indicates that he was both internally and externally transformed we as devotees we may sometimes share philosophically how bhakti is the highest but we may not be internally convinced our outer dissemination of Krishna’s glories should arise from inner conviction of those glories then such dissemination will be dramatically transformational it will elevate us in a very wonderful way it’s like if we are tasting the feast and then there is a lot of feast, by our eating it is not going to get exhausted then we naturally want oh why don’t you also taste it this is so delicious please taste it and if somebody else wants to so there are say multiple items one item is both delicious, nutritious and sumptuous there is a lot of it it tastes wonderful and it has no health effects like say obesity or something like that then we will tell that person please take it, take it more and more and more and if that person wants to take something else we will say no don’t go anywhere this is so delicious just take this this is self why do you need to go anywhere else so like that Sarvabhauma, yes we could say that if scripture is like a buffet then there are many items but there are certain bhakti is the most delicious most nutritious item and Sarvabhauma is saying that don’t take anything else just take this focus on bhakti so in this way he what he was relishing internally what he had accepted and relished internally now he was sharing that externally the same point is talked about repeatedly in the Jyotan Jyotan Jyotane Bhagwat how whenever Advaitacharya he explains scripture, he showed how bhakti is the ultimate conclusion of scripture now this is not fanaticism it’s not that denying that there are other things in scripture but this is the intensity of devotion and intensity of compassion there are many things but nothing is as good as bhakti and therefore why should one go anywhere else bhakti is so sweet so relishable just focus on bhakti just relish bhakti and in this way intensity of devotion that’s what that understanding that conviction reflects the intensity of devotion and then the desire to share Krishna with others reflects the intensity of compassion that internal focus on Krishna and devotion to Krishna is demonstrated through Sarvabhauma’s here absorption and outer propagation of the glories of bhakti