SB 01.07.05 – Chanting frees us from the illusion that makes unnecessities seem necessities

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thank you it says because of anarthas because of the mind’s misconceptions created by the modes because of anartha artha can mean value artha can mean meanings so anartha is that which is meaningless and valueless so for the soul which is satchitananda to identify with the body which is asat or chitnirananda is meaningless and it is also valueless because it doesn’t lead to any gain for the person in fact it is an immense loss to the person because the soul is bound in the samsara chakra so that anartha so the soul because of the anarthas assumes itself to be the body and assumes that gratifying the body will lead to pleasure and therefore accordingly that soul has tatkrtam so all this begins with sammohita with illusion so illusion makes the unnecessities seem to be necessities now when we are embodied our body needs the necessities we cannot live without eating and sleeping but those which are necessities are not to be denied to be regulated however far from regulating these necessities the mind aggravates them and we don’t imagine necessities to be necessities in the necessary quantity and method we want to get those necessities in extravagant ways and so to the extent we are able to chant attentively to that extent we become satisfied internally and our desires for external things especially unnecessary things become pacified in fact even before we experience the satisfaction the holy name gives us clarification clarification is intellectual satisfaction is devotional and even if we don’t start experiencing the devotional satisfaction immediately but still because the holy name is transcendental it takes us towards goodness and of course eventually it takes us to transcendence but even by the time we come to goodness we start experiencing a clarification of our perspectives and thereby we can see actually many of the things that we are considering as necessities are not necessities so conversely in the moment we are in the modes of passion exuberance krishna seems to be an unnecessary i can live fairly well without god if at all i need god that’s just to arrange for my material pleasure but as we come to goodness we start realizing that god is the fundamental truth of existence without whom no existence would be possible and actually as we move beyond goodness towards transcendence we understand that krishna is the purpose and pleasure of our existence at it loving and serving him our existence gets meaning and joy and without it our existence becomes meaningless and joyless meaningless because it will be finished by death and joyless because ultimately whatever happens we get separate from krishna is not going to last for long so by contemplating thus about the relationship of krishna his holy name our mental perceptions and things of this world we can understand that the absence of absorption in chanting or in the absence of chanting will drag us down to illusion and some more hitajiva thereafter will start imagining unnecessities to be necessities whereas by chanting many of the material things which are superfluous we will recognize them to be what they are unnecessities and we will realize krishna to be the supreme necessity of our life and we will relish life and relationship with him by thus transforming our worldview the holy name actually transforms our world because it helps us to see the world not as an arena for our enjoyment but an arena for purification and this view of the world actually makes life much easier and clearer because when we are in the enjoying mentality frustration is possible at any moment that’s why we are called as conditioned souls our enjoyment depends on so many conditions but once we see this world as a place for purification then we don’t bother then we are not constantly worried if enjoyment doesn’t come about in a particular way because the primary purpose is not enjoyment even if our plans do get frustrated still by remembering krishna by trying our best to serve krishna we will still become purified so the success doesn’t depend on the execution of our plans our success depends only on our remembrance of krishna that is possible at all times and we will find that of course by living we do need to get some things done and most of the times if our mental energy is not lost away because of frustration then we are able to get more things done and get them better but the holy name enables us to not only do things better but also to accept things in a better way when we are not able to do them because our focus and our purpose changes from trying to get things in our way to trying to purify ourselves which is possible in all situations thus the whole chanting which is a prayer krishna engage me in your service is a prayer that makes even our mental existence smoother in terms of decreasing our mental turbulence and eventually it takes us beyond our existence to krishna’s eternal abode