Mukunda Mala Stotra 38 – Drinking poison when nectar is available is tragic

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Aashcharamitad Dimanushe Loke Sudham Paritejya Vishampibandhi Namaani Narayana Gojarani Tyaktvanya Vachagohakapatanthi This is Mukunda Mala Stotra Aashcharamitad It’s very amazing Dimanushe Loke in this material existence Sudham Paritejya giving up nectar Vishampibandhi one drinks poison Namaani Narayana Gojarani So normally what person will give up nectar and drink poison? Now nectar is something which tastes good and also has a very good result Nectar is said to taste delicious and grant immortality and poison is said to taste terrible and it is to cause mortality cause death so many times people may take something which is harmful if it feels good if it tastes good and sometimes people may not take something which is beneficial if it tastes bad but if something tastes good and has a good result who would say no to that? and if something tastes bad and it also has a bad effect who will take it? but yet the tragedy of humanity is this is this perversion of action wherein people give up nectar and take poison so what is the nectar and what is the poison? NAMANI NARAYAN GOCHARANI The names of Lord Narayan and it is not just the names actually with the connected Lord Narayan his innumerable names his pastimes prayers glorifying him and hymns about him so NAMANI NARAYAN GOCHARANI now instead of singing the names of Narayan TYAKTVA ANNYA VAJHA KOKA PATANTI TYAKTVA one gives that up and ANNYA VAJHA people speak other words KOKA PATANTI why do they speak such things? how tragic it is that they speak such things now I feel that ok I can understand that Krishna’s glories are like nectar but why are other subjects to be considered with poison? are they so bad as poison? firstly we have to understand things from the perspective from which they are spoken at least to the extent that we can adopt that perspective so Kulshikar Maharaj is an exalted devotee relishing constantly the joys of devotion he has earlier enjoyed even the greatest of earthly pleasures as a king and he has found them all unfulfilling and so he has now turned towards higher spiritual pleasures and after experiencing the higher spiritual pleasures he is telling his perception which is actually the mature realization so from the perspective of a devotee who is relishing the constant joys of devotion anything that distracts from that joy is an agony because suppose somebody is drinking nectar if something very delicious and suddenly somebody takes that pot away that glass away from us we will feel annoyed why was it taken away? so like that for a pure devotee every moment is an opportunity to relish Krishna’s glories and anything that takes a person away from that nectar, that unceasing flow of nectar is like poison so that is what is being mentioned here now apart from this point of the perception of a pure devotee of how even Bhagavatam says that a pure devotee doesn’t want to forget Krishna even for a moment or even for half a moment so apart from this devotee’s unwillingness and we could say inability to stay away from Krishna there is also the fact of the consequence of what we hear on us when we hear material sound vibration then that causes our material desires to increase and what to speak of when we speak material sound vibration for us to hear and to speak material sound vibration means that we are increasing our immersion in material consciousness in matter we are increasing our material consciousness and increased material consciousness means that we will stay longer in miserable material existence so just as poison is distressing and poison poison tastes bad and has a bad effect also so like that when we speak other things if we have tasted the glories of Krishna everything else seems pale nothing else actually gives taste and in contrast with that and not only that in addition to that rather there is a consequence we get suffering at the material level also as a consequence of our vikarmic actions of our bad karma done in order to fulfill the desires which are triggered in our consciousness so the poison is two fold the poison while we are away from Krishna while we are speaking other things we are forgetful of Krishna if we have had a taste of Krishna we feel restless we feel alienated we feel bereaved we feel tormented like a fish out of water and beyond that the karmic reactions are further suffering therefore it says that when we speak about other subjects it is like poison so rather than drinking poison like this we can aspire at least to drink as much nectar as possible by speaking Krishna’s glories as much as possible we cannot stop talking about material subjects in this world because we have to live in the material world and for that purpose we have to function in the material world but that does not mean that we have to let our consciousness get caught in the material level if we can keep our consciousness elevated in Krishna or we at least connect our consciousness regularly with Krishna then that higher taste will stay in the forefront of our consciousness and we won’t get attracted and dragged down to material consciousness whatever speech for functional purposes we have to do we will do at the material level but we will relish Krishna’s glories and we will return to Krishna’s glories as soon as possible after our functioning at the material level has been completed and especially when we have the opportunity to speak Krishna’s glories chant his holy names at that time we will wholeheartedly absorb ourselves in speaking those glories and that way we will drink the nectar of Krishna’s