SB 01.09.33 – Chanting redirects our attraction from agitating worldly forms to the pacifying divine form of Krishna

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Thank you So here Bhishma Pitamaha is now remembering the beautiful form of Krishna Who is acting as Vijaya Sakha Vijaya refers to Arjuna and Vijaya Sakha refers to Krishna as the friend of Arjuna, especially Krishna as the charioteer as will be mentioned in a later verse Vijaya Ratha Kutumba Aata Totre So here he is saying In all the three worlds Krishna’s form is most desirable Many forms appear attractive to us in this world and the media the movies the advertisements They glamorize the forms endlessly But actually These forms will give us only temporary pleasure and then they will leave us with agitation with more and more craving They will not Free us from craving If you want to be freed Then we have to go beyond such temporary feelings There’s attraction to temporary forms and become attracted to the supremely attractive form of Krishna So for the For the wise people they understand that None of the forms of this world are desirable and certainly not as desirable as the supremely desirable form of Krishna His complexion is bluish like a tamal tree and then He’s wearing what? Varambaram Shining dress a beautiful dress. Ambarai’s dress Varambara best of dresses It is Krishna. He has a Peetha Ambara a yellowish dress.
So it’s shining like the sun So Vapural Vapura is his body Alakkula refers to the fact that his body is smeared with sandalwood paste So Prabhupada translates it as bearing paintings of sandalwood pulp when Krishna is decorated. It’s not just some dubbing of some sandalwood paste on his face or other parts actually The devotees want to serve Krishna in every possible way and therefore they decorate it make exquisite decorations of The beautiful form of Krishna of beautiful designs when they decorate Krishna’s form and then Vijayasakhe Unto that person who is Vijayasakha Let my Rati be Anavadhya be Undistractedly focused on him on him alone Anavadhya on no one else This is his prayer to Krishna and it’s a Prayer that we can all offer The forms of this world has dragged us so much and they captivate us and The whole media and culture are also in a conspiracy to capture us And it’s not necessarily a Planned conscious conspiracy, but in to captivate us specifically, but in general The Kaidodaya’s industry uses our vulnerability To good looking forms and through that wants to capture our attention and then sell its products to us so if we want to be protected we have to redirect our heart towards Krishna Now Redirecting our heart towards Krishna’s all attractive form Doesn’t simply mean beholding his form all the time. Yes, we can have the Pictures of Krishna, which we are most attracted to some beautiful darshan some other beautiful Pictures and we can keep them in our cell phones in our pockets in our laptop in our computers as desktops And we can Behold these pictures that’s important.
It’s very desirable But along with that We also we just don’t want to behold the picture of Krishna because at our level of consciousness We can only see the material beauty of Krishna We can see only material beauty and yes Krishna’s form is beautiful even to our material vision But that supreme attractiveness of Krishna’s form Is not revealed to those who are at the material level of consciousness Just as the sun can be just as we can see objects more and more when our eyes open more and more so like that when we become purified our spiritual eyes open more and more and then We will be able to Relish Krishna’s form spiritually When we relish Krishna’s form materially Materially relation means our consciousness material then We we look forward to say a beautiful darshan But once twice five times ten times afterwards if we are material consciousness We start feeling bored by that and we want something new But when we are in spiritual consciousness, we won’t feel this need the same form of Krishna because we are at spiritual consciousness Will at the spiritual level reveal more and more of its all attractiveness to us And we will before can be forever absorbed in it So to relish Krishna’s form is not just to look at Krishna’s form But to purify our hearts and that purification happens through prayerful remembrance through chanting So whenever we feel agitated by Sensually alluring forms We should know that the recourse for that the refuge from that is intense and absorbed chanting and by that Gradually, we will become attracted to Krishna’s form and Krishna’s form when you become attracted that doesn’t it is not agitating It is it is purifying and pacifying It’s purifying because our worldly cravings go and it’s pacifying the mind becomes supremely peaceful and supremely pacified Till we start eventually developing a spiritual taste that makes us Constantly satisfied that is the perfection that is available for all of us Through absorbed remembrance of Krishna. Thank you