Gita 15.09 – To avoid the mind’s slavery, beg for Krishna’s service through chanting

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thank you so much this verse from the 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita 15.9 is talking about how the soul tries to enjoy material things and it acquires a particular body it basically acquires the five senses along with it and then there is the mind and through this apparatus of the mind and the senses the soul tries to enjoy the body vishayan upasevate actually upasevate is actually trying to engage in its service but there is the word seva the soul ends up becoming the servant of the sense objects because whenever the sense objects tempt it’s almost impossible for the soul to be saved now and so often we may have some other plans to do some things some important things in Krishna’s service or in our worldly responsibilities but all those things can become lost in the sense that we just can’t focus on them sometimes and temptations start alluring and haunting us so though we think that we are enjoying those objects and therefore those objects are serving us actually we end up serving those objects so if we don’t want to be enslaved by the objects actually when we serve the sense objects that service becomes slavery over a period of time attachment becomes addiction and then we are dragged away from our more important work we are stripped of our morality, our dignity our humanity our sensitivity and our spirituality we are forced to become single-minded unidimensional slaves of the sense objects that’s what actually addicts are that the mind of the addict runs only on one track that one track is the track of enjoying the object of the addiction and that’s how they become unconscious of everything else now interestingly the mind of devotees also runs on one track only they constantly think of Krishna and how to serve Krishna well then is Krishna consciousness also just like another addiction yes it is an addiction but it is not just another addiction just like one of the others it is of an entirely different category now Krishna is not just one thing in material existence Krishna is a thing who produces and pervades everything and therefore Krishna includes other things also when we become conscious of Krishna actually that Krishna consciousness enables us to become more conscious more conscientious in the other things that we have to do as our responsibilities in fact they don’t necessarily remain have to do we even look forward to them not because they will give us some material pleasure but because they become opportunities for serving Krishna and serving Krishna not only gives him pleasure but also provides us fulfillment now when we chant, chanting is essentially a prayer Krishna please engage me in your service so in this prayer we are begging Krishna to shift our object of service from the sense of objects to which we are attached to him we are servants and we are serving but we are serving profitlessly as Prabhupada says in the purports of Nisha the profitless pursuit of self gratification so if we can redirect our thoughts our emotions and our consciousness on Krishna then we will get gradually life supreme