SB 01.05.13 All good qualifications attain perfection when used for the supremely good purpose of glorifying the all-good Lord

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Bhagavatam 1530 Atho Mahabhaga Bhavana Mokhidhari Chuchisrava Satyaratho Vrithvrathaha Urukrama Syakhil Vanna Muktaye Samadhinanusmaratha Dvicheshtitam so here now Asdev is being given a practical direction, what should he do Atho therefore Mahabhaga, you are greatly fortunate and make others also fortunate Bhavana Mokhidhari actually your vision is infallible you can see the essence the truth of all things Chuchisrava so there is appreciation that you are an eminently qualified person Chuchisrava you are actually you are clean you are spotless, you are famous Satyaratha you have taken a vow of truthfulness Vrithvratha and whatever resolutions you take to act according to noble qualities you stick to them Urukrama Syakhil Vanna Muktaye so Urukrama, that lord who performs wonderful activities for the the description of that lord’s activities can bring liberation for everyone Samadhinanusmaratha Dvicheshtitam so go into Samadhi and systematically meditate on the pastimes of that lord in our spiritual life all of us need a delicate balance of encouragement and chastisement when we go wrong we need to be chastised and when we are going right we need to be encouraged and normally it practically never happens that anyone goes entirely right or entirely wrong and when a person is going wrong and is feeling proud at that time the person needs to be chastised when a person is going right and is still feeling demoralized then that person needs to be encouraged and because people do everything simultaneously I mean they do some right things some wrong things so they need and we are also among those people so we also need both to be encouraged and to be chastised now chastise might seem to be a strong word sometimes but that’s what is required on occasions but either way the important point is that both are needed and to the extent that both are the need for both is recognized and the need for a balance among both is recognized to that extent a person can move steadily forward in life now when we are trying to practice spiritual life at one level we have a spiritual master and certainly the spiritual masters are deliverer and spiritual masters role is critical indispensable but at the same time we also have to become our own guides the intelligence has to become like the counselor of the mind and the intelligence needs to sometimes chastise and sometimes encourage especially when we are chanting it is very easy to become discouraged because the mind is constantly wandering here and there and when we are discouraged in that time we start chastising ourselves on one side we are doing wrong and we are feeling disheartened will I ever be able to do right will I ever be able to concentrate and at that time we start beating ourselves up saying that you fool what are you doing why can’t you concentrate why are you being so lazy actually the double combination can be disastrous for our determination because after all we need some encouragement we need to have a feeling of hope that we can succeed and when that hope is taken away then we are left with nothing therefore it is important that when our practice of spiritual life we don’t beat ourselves up when we need to pat ourselves along so it’s not that we have to be self congratulatory but at the same time we don’t have to be self flagellatory also self flagellation means whipping oneself along so here as we see from the example of Mahatma Vyasa Dev he appreciates and corrects also and tells this is what you should do so like that when the mind wanders here and there we can’t just beat it up, we have to correct it no doubt but along with that you can also point out yes you have been chanting, you can chant there are times when you have chanted attentively also so you have the capacity ultimately you are a soul who are pure and you have the capacity to ultimately love Krishna so just persevere and the mind wanders bring it back try to get absorbed and try to remember then the relish of that remembrance will come thank you