Gita 04.02 When time brings things down, let Krishna take things up

In the Bhagavad Gita, sakalene hamata yogo nashtah parantapah This is 4.2 in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna says sakalene hamata, by the power of time yogo nashtah parantapah that knowledge of yoga, nashtah the connection with the absolute becomes obscured, it becomes disconnected yogo nashtah parantapah So it's significant that Krishna himself says that he is Kaala, later in 11.32 kaalosmi lokakshayakrtapravittu the time I am, the destroyer of all the worlds So same Kaala which Krishna says destroyed everything in his viratroop darshan in the 11th chapter he says here in the 4th chapter that by the power of that time, sakalene hamata by the great power of time yogo nashtah parantapah that the knowledge of yoga is destroyed, nashtah the connection with the absolute is destroyed Time is divine but its effect is not always divine that is a vital insight for us to see time and its effects appropriately that as our society has become more and more fast we have become more and more time centered in the past most people would not have watches and they would just have rough estimates of time based on the amount of heat and light and the position of the sun in the sky if it was daytime and the position of the planets of the celestial objects in the sky if it was night time so things went on in that way for quite some time but over a period of time as our society became more and more clock centered so we had to be careful not to let the effects of time go down into various levels that means that just as if you keep a fresh fruit its delicious but if you just keep it there over a period of time it it gets spoiled it rots so in the most attractive looking person over a period of time their face shrivels so time changes things and often the change is not for the better there is a current in human affairs and more often than not this current takes us downwards just as if we are in a boat and if we are not rowing consciously then the boat will get swept away wherever the current is going when a river is flowing there is no being stationary in a flowing river we just have to be moving when the river is moving so similarly as long as we are at the material level in this material world there is the flow of time and now time itself is subtle but it causes changes that are not subtle that are consequential that are often colossal subtle time subtly causes colossal changes so we don't see a person changing from one state to another overnight but look at a person who is a beauty queen at the age of maybe 20 or 25 and then we look at them at the age when they are 50 or 55 there is a big difference so you look at a beautiful flower captivates the eye and the heart in the morning but by the time evening has come it has shriveled so now if we look at it moment to moment we will not see the change happening so time itself is subtle and it subtly subtle time subtly causes colossal changes now we discussed the effects of time at the physical level but what about at the level of consciousness we see that the resolutions we take initially we are very gangho we are very enthusiastic about whatever resolutions we take and they stay with us we are very confident about keeping them but then as time passes our enthusiasm to keep those resolutions starts going down and we start feeling what is the point of this all what is it why am I taking up so much difficulty what am I going to achieve by this and by such thinking our determination gets eroded so time also takes our consciousness down so whatever it is that has taken our consciousness up sometimes there is some inspiring class that we hear some very awakening experience that we have whatever it is we take our consciousness up and we feel inspired this is the level I want to live at these are the resolutions I want to mould my life according to but then after sometime the level of our consciousness starts going down our resolutions don't stay on we don't stay resolute about our resolution so what to do in such a situation all that we can do is just move onwards to raise our consciousness again now before we can raise our consciousness again we need to recognize that the consciousness has gone down and not only do we need to recognize it we actually need to anticipate it and prepare for it and to the extent we prepare for it and deal with it responsibly to that extent we can counter the effects of that on our consciousness if as it is said Krishna who is our lord and master if he enables us if we connect with him he is manifesting us time so he is in that sense time and he is about time, he is beyond time so time cannot have a denuding effect on his consciousness and if we connect our consciousness with him then also our consciousness can stay elevated of course when we say that time erodes our determination to stay connected with him also yes that is true and that is why we need to repeatedly associate with those who are regularly connected with him but more importantly if we just stay consistently connected we will find ourselves by the power of Krishna protected from the power of Kala.