SB 01.05.24 – Let the gravity of our speech and conduct show Krishna the intensity of our devotion

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Bhagavatam 1524 So here Narada Muni is explaining about his previous life in which he got instruction and mercy from the bhaktivedantas, the devotees who had camped near his house for Chaturmasya. So he describes they were equal minded but still they gave mercy to him. Why was that? He said that he served him along with that he also did some other thing, he had some other qualities.
He was not a chatterbox, he would talk less and a creed in a king. He was not involved in frivolous activities. Although he was a child, he had a grave disposition and the great souls are not partial about giving mercy but they are reciprocal.
If they see somebody is eager and desirous of receiving Krishna, a knowledge of Krishna, they are eager to give it. So he received it from them. The same principle applies to our chanting also.
When we chant it is our seriousness that is a measure to Krishna of the eagerness for Krishna consciousness that we have. So seriousness doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to have a long face all the time, it simply means that we have to be internally focused on what we are doing. Alpabhashini, now some people take mauna vrata, they don’t talk anything at all but alpabhashini means talk less, alpa means less.
So they make god worshippers of all less intelligent. Alpabhashini means those who are talkless. So the idea is that often the mouth simply becomes a vent for all the random and unprocessed stuff that is there inside the mind.
That means whatever thoughts come up from here, from there, we just speak them up and often when we speak it is based on how sensationalist, how attention catching some idea or some thought might be. The whole principle of gossip is that people want to catch other’s attention and so they try to come up with as sensationalistic, as scandalous, as controversial information as possible. So when we speak such things at that time these things catch our attention and although they may offer some little titillation because our ego feels good that I know something that others don’t know and generally gossip is done by people about someone who they think is their equal or their superior because they don’t want that person to be so high up, they want to bring that person down.
So we may also have that motive subconsciously or even if we don’t have that motive we may end up doing that if we are not careful. That’s why Alpabhashini is talkless that helps us to not let our speech. So whatever we speak has the effect on our consciousness and if we speak about Krishna and avoid gossip then a gravity and dignity of our consciousness is maintained that increases the receptivity to Krishna and thereby we can be more focused when we are chanting and we can connect more deeply with Krishna.
In fact Krishna sees our conduct as an expression of our desire to connect with him and along with that lack of frivolity that gravity and dignity when there is intensity in our chanting then we are able to move forward steadily and make a lot of spiritual advancement by that. That’s how by regulating our speech we can dotain the power of speech more in the holy name and in our process of meditation wherein we tap the power of the holy name. Thank you.