SB 01.09.20 – Let petty emotions not cheat us of the richness and sweetness of loving reciprocation with Krishna

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Thank you Bhagavatam 1920 Here Vishnu is speaking about the Intimacy of the relationship between krishna and the pandavas So That’s that person in the previous life previous verses he has said he is the supreme lord and his confidential glories are known only to special advanced souls But now he is giving a glimpse of those confidential glories in terms of the intimacy with which he relates with his exalted devotees And oh pandavas you are among those exalted devotees that he is revealing by Saying That person whom you consider to be your maternal cousin Krishna is related to the pandavas through kunti maharani.
So in that sense maternal cousin You considered him to be very close friend Krishna was very close to all the pandavas although he was closest to arjuna But still he was close to every one of them actually And It was not just a sentiment that krishna loved the pandavas, but he expressed the sentiment through actions What did you do? Akaro sachivam dhootam Akaro he became sachivam. He became a Counsel he offered counsel to them And not only that He was a counselor whenever yudhishthira maharaj wanted any guidance. Should I perform with should I perform the Rajasuya sacrifice? How should I confront jarasandha? All that time he was giving counsel to them.
So sachivam and Now that’s the fact that krishna personally gives counsel in itself special but at least when somebody is a counselor that person is Relatively speaking in a superior position that person is giving guidance and That the person is receiving guidance, but krishna loved his devotees so much loved the pandavas so much that sachivam He became a messenger for them. Sorry dhootam He became a messenger for them when he went to The kavaravas to try to Broker peace And avoid the war so dhootam is a Not a very at all exalted position And krishna accepted that now sometimes One may accept that one time but actually krishna accepted further The position of the charioteer of arjuna And that was not just for one visit it was for 18 days And actually krishna had been the charioteer of arjuna before also When they were satisfying agni who wanted to consume the khandava forest So krishna has repeatedly been the charioteer of arjuna And here especially in the war he became the charioteer and in this way He is serving his devotees So that is the sublimity the sweetness the Magical mystery of the Relationship of the lord with the devotees the devotees want to serve the lord when the lord Renounces his godhood. That means he doesn’t he doesn’t actually give up his godhood He’s always god, but he does not act as if he’s god he acts as if he’s simply Another person and in fact with such a position subordinate to his devotees so that There can be the sweetness of reciprocation between the lord and the devotees and This is the speciality Of the relationship And it is this extraordinary world of love When this world everybody is trying to raise themselves up and prove That I am greater than you but in the world of love the The lord devotee is eager to Go down to serve the lord and the lord is eager to go down to serve the devotee and this selfless pure love Brings the greatest ecstasy to both the lord and the devotee And the pandavas had such a fortune That that supreme lord Was always there with them to help them whenever they needed and Bheeshma is saying Yudhishthir that lord Is here with you right now Why are you lamenting? No, he has he has included you in his inner circle of concern and guidance And it is by his arrangement that you have become the supreme emperor of the world now just follow his plan Give away put aside all feelings of Regret and guilt with such petty feelings as compared to the opportunity to relish pure love with krishna and Focus on those feelings and you’ll be supremely enriched Same way in our chanting, you know, we can often get caught up in trivial feelings anger towards someone Sorrow about something or even lust or greed but all of those feelings are so petty and trivial as compared to the richness and the sweetness of loving reciprocation with krishna and although We may feel that we are far away from krishna to have loving reciprocation with him But krishna has manifested himself as the holy name And by serving krishna through the holy name, we can start getting glimpses of the richness and the sweetness of loving relationship with him and Once we start relishing that richness and sweetness Then all material emotions will become pale and stale And we will be able to March swiftly towards krishna So by meditating on the world of love filled with sweetness and richness that awaits us We can put aside all petty emotions and distractions And absorb ourselves in the remembrance of krishna.
Thank you