SB 01.09.31 – Consciously withdraw the mind from worldly things to relish the enrichment and empowerment of Krishna

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Thank you Vashugatha yudhashramaha Here vishwadeva goswami or the suta goswami is describing the Climax of this pastime and Bhishma is going to depart from the world and a few verses earlier Bhishma First gave consoling instructions till verse 24 To yudhishthira maharaj to continue his duty and then from verse 25 to verse 30 So yudhishthira maharaj Asked questions and the raj dharma the instructions that are that Vishwapitama is extremely famous for Which come in the Shanti and Anushasan Parva of the Mahabharata are delivered so what takes thousands of verses in the Mahabharata is summarized in Six verses over here and then thereafter Because the focus of the bhagavatam Is on the moment of death and how one can prepare for the moment of death Not so much on how to rule the world because that is not the concern of Parikshit Maharaj and that is not the focus of the bhagavatam So that is skipped over here and the focus moves on to how vishwapitama prepared for death So now this verse is describing the end of vishwapitama’s instructions and now vishwa after Deliberating and speaking on a wide variety of topics is now withdrawing this consciousness and focusing on krishna These are advanced stages of meditation in the process of yoga So with pure meditation He cleansed himself of impurities means to destroy Ikshaya means seeing He was now krishna was directly present in front of him and he looked at krishna And what happened immediately So all the pain And the shrama is exhaustion fatigue it had come because yudha refers to the arrows Nivrut it all went away gatha.
It went away and then Not only did he did the distress go away, but also He is he sent away all distractions Vibramas means because he had been talking on various topics So his sense his thoughts and his senses had gone in various and mind had gone in various direction. But now Nivrut The sarve indriya means sarva means includes the mind also because indriyana manas chasmi mind is one of the senses So the different directions in which the mind was going And along with the senses were going he checked it all he renounced it all and So he prayed Janyam Visrujan janardhan. So he prayed to Janardhan lord while he was Visrujan janyam the material tabernacle that is the body which is a trap for the soul Visrujan while he was quitting So this is a conscious Decision that yudhishthira maharaj is doing so that bheeshma is doing and okay now I have spoken He spoke for over 50 days Elaborate instructions he gave and then he decided that now The sun has come to the uttara and now is the time for me to depart So he withdrew his thoughts from all other subjects and focused them on krishna Who is was present in front of him? and this act of conscious refocusing Is something which all of us have to do If we want to absorb ourselves in krishna during our devotional activities like chanting or taking darshan or hearing Because When we are living and acting in the world our thoughts naturally and necessarily go in different directions to do our responsibilities Effectively We have to think about worldly things in a competent way But Those responsibilities Should not be allowed to interfere with our spiritual responsibility It means there is a time for those things and there is a time and this is the time for focusing on krishna and if we Keep this in mind this Act that Vishnu Pitamah that Nivrutta Sarvendi Vritti Vibhramas And constantly also draw our mind away from all worldly distractions And focus it on krishna Then we will be able to Experience the enriching and empowering effects of the holy name enriching means it will fill us with great satisfaction and empowering means It will give us energy and drive To serve krishna even in this world in the most effective way and That way we will be able to Do even our worldly duties more effectively so we need to Take our consciously make a decision to Draw the mind away from worldly things and fix it on krishna subconsciously uh the or The mind will try to counter our decision and suddenly we’ll start us start finding a Finding that I have gone back to thinking about Other things and then again as per our conscious decision.
We have to bring the mind back But without that conscious decision and that conscious resolve we will just our mind will just be wandering around with my material things and our Uh devotional activities will become only superficial And we will not benefit much from them nor will we please krishna by them and by by Following in the footsteps of Bishu Pitamah remembering that okay This is the time when I have to prepare for death This is the time which I want to purely offer to krishna wholly offer to krishna We withdraw and then redirect our consciousness In a fixed way towards krishna. Thank you