SB 01.09.12 – Amidst suffering, make the mind run towards Krishna, not away from him
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Shri mithbhagavatam 1 9 12 Here bheeshma pitamaha Is speaking to the pandavas especially to maharaja yudhishthira And he is himself lying on the arrow bed and he is in a state of immense pain but Rather than lamenting for his own pain he is Contemplating The pains that the pandavas went through During their entire life What terrible sufferings and Sometimes we take sufferings for a good cause, but sometimes the sufferings are Unfairly foisted upon us So You are the sons of religion personified Now yudhishthira maharaja of dharma raj and Here he is referring to him and the whole family by referring to him so You are righteous person And the kind of sufferings you went through so first of all suffering itself is bad Unjust suffering is bad and unjust suffering towards a pious person Towards a virtuous person towards a religious person that is even more incomprehensible intolerable So he says actually when such a thing happens So actually many people when they get sufferings they just feel that Better to end my life.
I can’t live with suffering like this so for the pandavas for Great kshatriya warriors to Flee at night when the palace where they are living in is burned and to live on charity in a poor brahmin’s house then to have the See the indignity of their wife getting disrobed And they’ve been losing all their property to a scheming manipulator And again having to live in forest in mendicant garb with meager fare And then last of all to live In akhyatmas incognito Where they had to act as servants of others Even in the forest they were able to live Relatively in seclusion and they maintained their dignity They were living with the sages with sages and they were discussing spiritual topics but they had to hide their identity and act as servants of others that was so mortifying so painful for them And people of lesser stock would have died in such a situation Many people would have preferred death in such a situation But He’s saying that actually throughout it all You were sheltered by vipra with the brahmins dharma By religion and achyut the supreme lord achyut ashraya so here vishwapitamaha is underscoring underlining the ashray that may helps us to tolerate and transcend anyai So When anyai is misery comes How do we we can at our level the best try to rectify it counter it But sometimes circumstances conspire in such a way that we can’t do anything about it so at that time So just when rains come We can’t stop rains. The only thing that we can do is take shelter of an umbrella Hmm similarly In this world sometimes inevitably sufferings come The only thing that we can do at such a time is ashraya Is take shelter of the supreme lord? And his representatives vipra and dharma So His instructions and his representatives And that is exactly what the pandavas did so Even in our life when we are trying to fix our mind on krishna Hmm Life may give us a raw deal people may treat us harshly unfairly and That can very much agitate our minds When the mind is agitated Generally itself the mind doesn’t want to stay fixed in krishna and when the mind is agitated that the external cause The person who is troubling us or the circumstance that is tormenting us That becomes the excuse the alibi which the mind uses to Run away from krishna And to justify rationalize running away from krishna However nothing Worthwhile comes by running away from krishna When sufferings come we should run towards krishna not run away from krishna Although the mind may have that tendency by running towards krishna We will get ashraya and then the pain of the anyai will not be so much And that’s how we will be able to tolerate and transcend the suffering So by Contemplating on how great devotees have also had to undergo Injustice the whatever sufferings we face we can get the inspiration to tolerate it and and seek shelter of the holy name seek ashraya of achyuta And thereby go beyond the suffering