SB 01.09.17 – Let guilt not tempt us away from our service to Krishna

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Thank you Srimad bhagavatam 1917 Natha So Vishwapitamaha is coming to the conclusion of his Consoling message for Yudhishthira Maharaj And he’s telling that whatever has happened all the sufferings that you went through And now the war that you went through and which is successful It is all The plan it is all the arrangement of the lord. It is the plan of the lord Understand and accept it as the plan of the lord and now What has been ordained by you by him for you Anatha there are people who are anatha. There are people who are Shelterless there are orphans there are widows.
There are so many people who are the Victims due to the collateral damage caused by the war so nathapahi prajaprabho So nathapahi so you have to become the nath for them And pahi Praja and you have to look after those praja prabho. So here Because yudhishthira maharaj is the king Vishwapitamaha despite being the Grandfather of yudhishthira maharaj is referring to him as prabho. You are the master And nathapahi, please look after them So Yudhishthira maharaj is lamenting that I am the cause of all this death So the Vishwapitamaha is consoling him that Actually, it is all the plan of the lord And now it is for you To do your part in the plan of the lord.
And if at all you feel that You are the cause of the you are in any way The cause of so much suffering for the cause of people becoming anatha The way to rectify it is not by doing your own thing It is by participating in the plan of the lord So now for those who have become anatha you are the natha So if you go into a zone of Atonement wherein you renounce your duty then who will look after those who have become anatha So till now you have participated in the plan of the lord now, don’t give up the plan. Don’t give up participating Now It’s the time for you to do a role by which Whatever wrongs have happened in the past you will be able to be a part of correcting them So therefore actually speaking The mind is so devilish that At all times amidst suffering and amidst pleasure It will give us excuses for going away from krishna So in fact bheema there is a elaborate conversation When yudhishthira maharaj is considering renouncing the kingdom At that time bheema says your mind has gone out of control So you have won a war against formidable Enemies like the kauravas but now the most formidable enemy Your own uncontrolled mind is defeating you guard yourself So yudhishthira stiffens at this Uh, and then he responds he says actually if my mind were uncontrolled it would have gone to sense gratification. I am Ready to renounce material pleasure therefore Actually, not my mind is controller Uncontrolled it is my mind is controlled So he responds i’m just paraphrasing the discussion simply over here.
But the point is For all of us You know when good happens and when bad happens At all times the mind will find some excuse to go away from krishna so Sometimes the mind goes into a guilt complex so When something good comes to us we feel oh i’ve done so many bad things now. I don’t deserve this good Now in one sense, it’s good to feel that I don’t deserve good things But then if good things have come in our life, then those good things can be used to serve krishna better And if in the name of guilt we give up our responsibility for serving krishna Then actually we are doing a disservice to krishna And that guilt is not real guilt. That is pseudo guilt and that guilt is also temptation because Ultimately temptation is not just lust or greed or anger anything that takes us away from krishna is a temptation And if feelings of guilt take us away from krishna, that is also temptation So If we have done the Yudhishthira maharaj is being told not succumb to this temptation of guilt but to stay fixed in the service of the lord and thereby Act as a shelter for those who are shelterless now similarly for us also You know, whatever happens we should need to continue to take shelter of the lord and move forward in our spiritual life and we will be able to do that only when we See through the tricks of the mind So whatever happens we understand that it is the plan of the lord and what we see is Whether it is good or bad.
What does the lord want me to do in this situation? And do that and certainly we know that krishna wants us to take shelter of him by hearing chanting And if we do that then from there onwards krishna will further guide us about how we can serve him in other situations The lord is ordering something for us let us do that and thereby our highest well-being will be guaranteed. Thank you