SB 01.05.34 – The very action that causes bondage brings liberation when there is change of intention

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Shrimad Bhagwatam 1534 evam ram kriya yogah sarve samsruti hetavah ta eva atma vinashaya kalpante kalpita pare so Narad Bhune is continuing his instruction on the glory of pure devotion in general of devotion itself which culminates in pure devotion and he says that that same thing which samsruti hetavah the very same activities which cause material bondage if they are done for the pleasure of Krishna they can bring about the supreme liberation and that is why the quality of consciousness in doing that activity is most important the external form of the activity is not something which should prejudice us against a particular activity so generally speaking many people think that to become spiritual means to become silent to become to look inwards to become peaceful to become absorbed in one’s inner self by avoiding all the activities that will distract us outwards now that can be one level of understanding of spirituality no doubt that we negate everything material and that’s how we come to the spiritual level at the same time this is not a complete level of understanding of spiritual reality because just by negating the negative we will eventually come to the zero point you won’t come to the positive point there’s minus three and I remove that minus three from there then I end up at zero I don’t remember to remain completely positive so like that the activity of silencing one’s speech say can be of some help in avoiding further karmic entanglement but it won’t help in terms of helping to develop a positive interaction for Krishna at a devotional level for that one needs to use the mouth use the tongue for chanting Hare Krishna when one does that the same a tongue which was the cause of bondage can become the cause of liberation so essentially bhakti yoga involves not a change of action but a change of intention and there are certain activities which we add to our daily function so that that intention can change so we do our normal worldly activities and for that we may speak on worldly subjects wherever it is required but beyond that we speak about Krishna so when we add those spiritual actions that speaking about Krishna that chanting about Krishna that helps us to connect with Krishna through our speech get a taste for the sweetness of Krishna and by that taste we become purified and then our desires get redirected transformed and then our intention changes and that is how we develop the a pure heart and this is how chanting words vināśāya that which is samsmṛti hetave that which was for the same tongue and the same mouth whose movement earlier caused bondage can now bring liberation what has happened externally the action is the same I’m still speaking of course the content of the action is different but and the intent of the action is also different the intent now is to glorify Krishna and the content also changes a lot that means we may have spoken about material things and we may speak about material things even now to some extent but much more than that we speak about Krishna also and that’s where we try to put our heart when we are speaking about Krishna and in that way we move forward towards Krishna so the more we understand how chanting will be liberating how speaking about Krishna will be liberating and this is its magical mystical potency the more we’ll be inspired to put more and more of our effort in chanting and more we will get a taste for Krishna the more we will do spiritualize our entire consciousness and our entire day and the more it will be will inspire us to chant more attentively so often we feel that if I want some extraordinary result oh I want to get liberated then maybe I should go do something extraordinary maybe if I go for yatra then I’ll be doing something extraordinary apart from the normal course of action or if I fast in the vigil I’m doing something extraordinary but actually when we are chanting we are doing something enormously extraordinary why? because its result is going to be enormously extraordinary and when we go beyond the form because the form seems to be ordinary we go beyond that to the remember its extraordinary consequence and extraordinary essence then we will be inspired to chant wholeheartedly and then by Krishna’s mercy reap the extraordinary result of chanting