SB 01.09.32 – To mistake the unproductive to be productive and the productive to be unproductive is terribly unfortunate

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Srimad bhagavatam 1932 So Bhishma begins his prayers by talking about the position of the person Who is beholding with his eyes Who is standing just like an ordinary person along with other people around him He’s saying I’m taking my consciousness Means i’m investing it all with krishna so krishna refers to sensory cravings Krishna refers to our longing for material things And with krishna refers to freedom from that with krishna without krishna And then after I take out become free from material hangings what I mean That lord who is he Sattvata pungava Sattvata refers to the devotees pungava Is the pungava refers to the leader The word literally means a bull just like the bull is the strongest among all domestic animals So sattvata pungava refers to That person who is the leader of the sattvatas Who is the devotee who is the lord of the devotees vibhumni? He’s the greatest being So he’s saying this lord who is the lord of all the devotees who is the supreme being Out of his own self-satisfaction Actually who is self-satisfied upagate, you know, he doesn’t need to do anything To gain satisfaction. He is But still Sometimes out of his own transcendental pleasure Pravaha He creates the material world and descends into the material world For which is actually created annihilated only by his with bhava pravaha So from now here he is saying that This krishna is not an ordinary person.
He’s the supreme lord and key for us to us to understand two words sva-sukham and viharatum The lord is always satisfied the lord does not need us And even when he manifests it’s a leela for him he does it out of his pleasure and similar that is what his incarnations are It performs fun-filled pastimes even when he is descending to the material world and doing the very serious work of re-establishing dharma Still he is always joyous in his nature And he is self-satisfied. He doesn’t need anything But yet, although he does not need anything. Although he’s complete in his happiness he acts not out of A need to attain completeness but out of a compassionate desire to share completeness So he is completely satisfied and he wants to others to also relish that complete satisfaction and that is why he Descends to the material world where all of us are always plagued by the feelings of incompleteness we feel That okay.
I don’t have this sense object. I don’t have that sense object. I don’t have that I don’t have that this has to work out that is not working out And because of these things we always feel incomplete in the material world, but if somehow we can Connect with krishna who is supremely complete Then we can start relishing his completeness and When we relish his completeness Then we also feel complete and our feeling of incompleteness goes away And this actually happens at a very deep spiritual level And we can’t perceive it materially If we stick to material vision, we will feel that Activities of devotional service like chanting praying Are not of much use There are so many things to be done.
There are so many things to be got and what are we doing just Sitting and uttering some sound So if we stick to material vision chanting will seem utterly unproductive But when we develop educated spiritual vision then The material activities that are alluring us Come on do this you have to do that there’s so much to be done so much to be got we will see them as ultimately unproductive because We’ll know that these doing these activities even if we do them to the best of our capacity And even if we get the best results from those activities, there are a lot of ifs Do we doing the things best and getting the best result even if all those ifs work out, right? still We will not feel complete we may get some temporary feeling of satisfaction But after that again, the sense of incompleteness will come only when we Fix the mind in Krishna and connect with him in through devotion Will we get lasting completeness and that is what we are hankering for and the more We get this complete feeling of completeness The more we will be able to act in this world In a more complete manner that we call complete manner means more maturely more sensitively more effectively to Similarly share a bit of our completeness with others And when we chant the holy names we understand That Krishna is manifesting as the holy name is satisfied Satisfied but out of his pastime he has come here to relish to share with us his completeness and We can Dive into that opportunity wholeheartedly Knowing that nothing else will satisfy us the way absorption Krishna will