SB 01.09.24 – Let Krishna be on the path of not just our perception but also our meditation

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1924 So here Bhishma is now offering a prayer to the supreme lord to conclude his initial Words of consolation instruction to yudhishthira maharaj after this Due to further yudhishthira maharaj becomes consoled and then he inquires further about a raj dharma And what follows comprises a single largest set of instructions in the entire mahabharata the shanti parva and the anushasan parva filled with elaborate instructions of Vishwamitama in fact his instructions are almost as big as the entire remaining mahabharata So that will follow after this and bhishma actually instructs for a long long time Despite being in the ayurveda, but before that he is just now completed glorifying the lord and urging yudhishthira maharaj to Stay unflinching in the devotion of the lord and he concludes by now offering a prayer to the lord Actually, he doesn’t Offer a prayer directly to krishna.
He offers it in the third person not second person Hmm He’s not looking at krishna. He’s just praying in general to the lord And he’s saying That lord is right in front of him And he’s saying that lord who is the god of all gods My dear lord now you have come before me out of your supreme mercy you are going to You You want to me you to when i’m going to die you have come to reveal yourself to me to give your darshan So, please be with me Please Please wait as i’m leaving my body so he’s Now this may say, you know, how can we ask a big person? Please wait but that is actually an expression of the Intimate relationship That my dear please wait, please be with me now when There is an in-suite relationship Then favors can be asked Bhakti teeth maharaj in last days. He asked radhanath maharaj.
Please Be with me For as long as i’m there And then for several weeks Radhanath maharaj stayed in bhakti teeth maharaj. So like that There is when there is intimate relationship and the requests are made it’s a very intimate personal request My dear lord, please wait for me As I leave my body Now vishwa pitamah actually did not want to trouble the lord. He knew that he had He had the capacity to And he could have left the body right at that moment itself But he’s expressing his dependence on the lord And he did not leave his body at that time Because the lord wanted him to live longer so that he could give instructions And the lord wanted also That put the eye and come along Actually a devotee can depart at any time And still attain the supremely auspicious result But krishna also wants to demonstrate through vishwa’s example that the devotee is not deprived of anything material Hmm krishna says in the last verse of the eighth chapter That whatever is attained by other parts a devotee attains that and beyond that attains more also attain the supreme destination So whatever is attained by other parts plus the paramsthan attained by the devotee And that is demonstrated through vishwa’s life vishwa That’s why the lord wanted vishwa to Leave his body in the uttaraayana Because from the point of view of conventional vedic religion departure in uttaraayana is auspicious so So it’s demonstrated that through the example of vishwa that even material auspiciousness Is is not deprived for the devotee But of course vishwa had got the supreme auspiciousness of having the sakshat darshan of the lord while departing from the body And out of his humility he’s praying my dear lord, please be with me As I leave my body and he’s describing the lord as he’s beholding now His smile is very cheerful and then arunalochana His eyes are like the morning sun like the sun aruna So He is actually very beautifully decorated His face is beautifully decorated mukhamboj.
It is like a lotus and he’s saying dhyanapadaschaturbhuja Let that face be on the path of my meditation Nayanapathagami bhavattume We sing for lord Jagannath, Jagannath swamy Let the lord be on my path so on the path of my eyes because When we want to take darshan of the lord, let me have darshan of the lord Let the lord be on the path of my eyes so Now when we are going to die at that time our eyes will not be open even if the lord is there in front of us Our eyes will close and we’ll not see the lord So Bhishma is praying that let the lord not just be With me so that I can see him with my eyes, but let him be with me in my meditation also So he also knows that yes the lord’s form the lord’s presence with him externally is a special mercy But what is even more critical is that there is this remembrance internally And therefore he’s praying This is a very nice prayer. We can also offer when we are Trying to pray or chant and trying to remember krishna. May that lord be May he be on the path of our meditation