Gita 11.40 – Relish the symbiosis of Krishna’s omnipresence and his sonic presence

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Thank you. Gita 11.40 Arjuna is offering prayers to the Vishwaroopa, and he is saying, from the front, and from the behind, and from all directions, from front, from behind, from all directions.

Anantavirya Amitavikramastum. Anantavirya. Your strength is unlimited.

Amitavikrama. Your heroism, your glory is imperishable. Sarvam Samapnoshi Tato Si Sarvaha.

Sarvam Samapnoshi. You pervade everything, and in that sense, Tato Si Sarvaha. Therefore, you are everything.

So, in Arjuna, the ecstasy of beholding this awesome form of the Vishwaroopa is now manifesting in the form of mortification, embarrassment. How did I treat my Lord so casually? That feeling will become more explicit in the next verses, and he will ask forgiveness in the verses after that. But in this verse, there's a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of the Lord.

So, he's stating that, I offer you obeisances from front and from behind, and get a gate, get a gate from all sides. Now, the pervasiveness of the Lord, when the Lord pervades all of existence, some people think that he's just reduced to existence. That means there is nothing to him beyond existence.

That means that God does not have any transcendental aspect beyond whatever is manifested in nature. However, Krishna repeatedly states that there is a abode beyond the material abode, and that is his abode, and he has descended from there. And similarly, the holy name of Krishna, the sacred sounds connected with Krishna, they are also coming from the spiritual plane to the material plane to lift us up.

So, when we keep this in mind and let our life be guided or lifted up by the grace of the Lord, then we can realize his presence everywhere. So, at one level, intellectually, we realize that Krishna is present everywhere, everything is his energy, and he's accessible to us at one level through everything, but at another level, through the chanting of the holy names. And when we, at a more intimate level, at a more personable level, he's accessible to us through the chanting of the holy names.

And as we realize him more and more, then we realize how he is present everywhere around us, inside us. So, the inner and outer pervasiveness of Krishna becomes more and more accessible and relishable to us when we connect with him more and more through the manifestation of the sound vibration of his holy names. And thereafter, we march onwards as a symbiosis, symbiotic relationship between who we actually are at our core souls and what we are striving to become despite our conditionings.

Is this enough for Krishna to bestow his mercy on us? If we keep trying, he will surely bestow his mercy and enable us to hand our heart to him so that he'll purify and take us back to Krishna.