SB 01.09.23 – The more we invest emotion the more we relish Krishna’s self-revelation

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bhagavatam 1923 He’s now describing how the lord offers his mercy to everyone especially at the time of death In the previous verse he has said how the lord has bestowed special mercy On him by Now that may not happen for everyone What about all the other people for whom krishna doesn’t give darshan how will They be delivered If one remembers him with the law one one remembers the lord with bhakti So internally one has devotion and externally one chants his names If with our tongue we chant the name then The lord will manifest in the mind of the devotee And That yogi when he is about to leave the body What will happen? One will become liberated from So refers to future activities that means one will actually become liberated from the bondage of future activities one will attain the eternal kingdom of krishna so sometimes when we hear about the pastimes of the lord with his devotees we may feel Deprived that we Were born at another time that we were not born say when lord chaitanya appeared or lord krishna appeared Of course, it requires great fortune to be born at that time But even when we don’t have that fortune, that doesn’t mean that we are deprived Krishna offers his mercy to everyone at all times. We just have to accept that mercy so even now if we call out to krishna And we Try to muster all the devotion that we have in our heart to call within that call then krishna will appear to us also as sadhakas, we know repeatedly that the Moment of death is an extremely important moment.
It’s a defining moment in a Person’s life If we remember krishna at that time we’ll go back to godhead so krishna wants to Offer himself to us krishna wants to reveal himself to us He just wants to see our sincerity And if we try to remember him throughout our life then he will He will remember us at the time of death and as When ramacharya had this doubt and he asked it to kanchipurna and kanchipurna asked it to the lord Kanchipurna was a very intimate devotee and he asked the lord And he said the lord says that even if my devotee is not able to remember me. I will remember that devotee so Krishna’s mercy is available to all of us and Often when we are practicing devotional service, it’s easy to become Complacent and negligent because We’re doing the same thing day in day out day after day after day But we don’t know that while we’re doing it day after day. Suddenly one day will be the last day so When that day will be the last day we can’t say And whenever that last day comes we need to be prepared And the present moment is the opportunate to prepare And we remember that krishna is waiting for us krishna is waiting To reveal himself to us and to charm our heart And to attract us back to him And all that we have to do is Then if we with bhakti call out his name then he will reveal himself to us and that can inspire us to Do our best in investing our emotions in krishna In the chanting of the holy names in the prayers in the forms of devotional service that we are doing by which we will be able to Accelerate krishna’s self-revelation and thereby accelerate our own spiritual advancement Of course, it is not that our bhakti accelerates krishna self-revelation, but our intense bhakti uh evokes the mercy in krishna’s heart and therefore he reveals himself faster and Then our progress towards him accelerates becomes faster so by remembering that Any day can be the last day and that What can be done later Can What was available to bhishma what we will have to do sometime later if we want to go back to the spiritual world Let’s wholeheartedly call out to krishna and surrender to him That we can do at this very moment if we just desire intensely enough and try sincerely enough by remembering that we can also vachayana Put our emotions in our call to krishna and thereby Experience his charming self-revelation that will conquer our heart