SB 01.09.35 – Chanting is the password to a life of supreme adventure

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Shri Nibhagavatam, 1935 So here Bhishma Pitamah is remembering the start of the Kurukshetra war wherein at Arjuna’s request Krishna brought the two chariots in between the two thought the chariot between the two armies Sapadhi Sakhi Vachho Nisham Nimadhe. Sapadhi in the battlefield Sakhi Vachho on the words of his friend Nisham Nimadhe after hearing So in between the armies Two armies he brought and Sthitavati situating Parasainika Yurakshna Ritavati So Sthitavati and Ritavati are rhyming words so he situated the Chariot in between the two armies, and what did he do? Parasainika Yurakshna Ritavati So with his just glance He stole away Ritavati, the life of Parasainika of the soldiers on the opposite side And then Parth Sakhe Rathir Mamastu That Lord who is Parth Sakha I hope that my attraction be there for him always Now significantly in that Parasainika Ayur Parasainika, even Bhishma was there And that means if Krishna stole away the lives of everyone on the opposite side by his glance That would mean he stole away the life of even Bhishma And yet rather than feeling angry Normally if somebody decides to kill us or because of somebody we are dying Then naturally we will feel angry with that person But here Bhishma Pitamah is saying Oh let my consciousness be attracted to that Lord How can he pray like that? Towards someone who is the cause of his death Now Bhishma knows that Ultimately everything happens with the Lord’s plan And the Lord is the supreme balabhisheer So even when he is stealing away the lives of the opposite party By dying in his presence One will attain the supreme destination That we will talk in one later verse yame niriksha hata gata swaroopam They got their swaroopa Hata gata swaroopam Those who died in his presence But here the focus is on that Amastu Let my consciousness be fixed on that Lord What is the speciality? Even when a devotee makes such an extraordinary request First of all for Krishna To be ready to take the menial position of a charioteer Is itself extraordinary And after Krishna takes that position Then for Arjuna to make such an extraordinary request Instead of fighting just bring the chariot between the two armies Krishna is acting like the obedient servant of Arjuna And this demonstrates the inconceivable nature Of the relationship between the Lord and the devotee So the Lord may become a servant and yet he remains omnipotent He was a charioteer Normally if a warrior is there And the warrior wants to kill the soldier on the opposite side The warrior has to exert and shoot arrows And fight vigorously to kill the opponents So Krishna was not even a warrior Krishna was simply a charioteer Normally a charioteer doesn’t kill anyone A charioteer doesn’t use weapons So Krishna did not fight Krishna did not use any weapons And just by his glance Ritavati He stole away the lives of everyone Krishna saw all of you are going against my devotee All of you are becoming a part of that conspiracy Which has brought so much suffering upon my devotees Ritavati So you do not deserve to live Of course Krishna doesn’t have any vendetta against anyone Krishna wants the well-being of everyone But this is a doctor who wants well-being He may act differently with different people He may give a child a chocolate And another child an injection And a third child a surgery That will vary depending on what is best for the child Similarly Krishna deals differently But he is supreme And then how exactly did Krishna’s glance kill everyone? In the Saha Ekshitaha By Krishna’s glance the whole creation moves At the beginning of, at the origin of creation And similarly it is by Krishna’s glance That all the Pandavas and their army Got energy, got empowerment And so Krishna’s glance acted through his devotees And implemented his will So as devotees we often hear that Krishna’s glance is such that Just like Cupid’s Kamadeva Shoots his arrows through the glance of The opposite sex Similarly it is said Krishna’s glance can also attract our heart to him But Krishna’s glance Usually works through his devotees Generally when we become attracted to his devotees Then we become attracted to Krishna And Krishna’s glance through that So when we are chanting Hare Krishna Actually we are relishing Relishing, we are striving to relish An intimate relationship with that wonderful lord Who manifests his extraordinary grace And learning to love Krishna Is life’s greatest adventure So chanting the same mantra may seem boring But chanting can open the door to Making, to life’s greatest adventure Wherein we love and live With the most extraordinary person In all of creation, for all of eternity