SB 01.09.36 – When the eyes take us away, let the head bring us back to Krishna’s lotus feet

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Thank you When he was situated at a distance He saw the soldiers Of both parties from a distance In the middle of the battlefield Vishwapitama is describing His encounters with Krishna And in that context he is describing The start of the Kurukshetra battlefield So Arjuna saw the faces of His own relatives So here actually Bhishma is primarily referring to himself So Arjuna saw his venerable Grandsire Swajan And he thought how can I kill them So normally if somebody wants to kill us And then that person decides Oh no I can’t kill you You will think oh very good Now you have become intelligent But Bhishmapitama is saying Oh the reluctance to kill me That reluctance was The faulty intelligence And what happened was This This misdirected intelligence Was destroyed by the supreme lord By Atmavidyaya By spiritual knowledge And that supreme lord Who does give spiritual knowledge And enlightens Arjuna May my attraction be forever there May I be forever attracted to him So here The ever readiness of the lord To enlighten the devotee is apparent Actually it is bhakti aksha Which puts us into ignorance When we insist on riksha On seeing with our eyes That’s what Arjuna did in the start of the Vita And then he felt oh how can I kill And he lost his determination to do his service So it was Krishna who had to enlighten And then Arjuna’s determination was restored Similarly when we are practicing devotional service Especially the devotional activities That seem from the material perspective Completely unproductive Like say chanting or Even hearing to some extent So we are always sitting in one place Uttering some mantra, doing nothing practical And then if we see, if we niriksha If we start pursuing with us Oh this person is going here and doing this This person is doing that And they are all doing productive things I am doing nothing So then what will happen is Kumati dosha buddhya Our consciousness will get misdirected Our intelligence will get punished And at such times we need to hear from the lord Atma vidyaraj We need to hear from the scriptures About how we are not the body but the souls And how our real life is at the spiritual level In loving reciprocation with Krishna Only when we hear this And internalize this understanding Then ahara Then the ignorance will be destroyed And then we will also aspire for the supreme auspiciousness of life That is charanarathi Attraction to Krishna’s lotus feet Is itself the supreme auspiciousness Because by that attraction We will become free from all worldly attractions And ultimately Return back to Krishna For an eternal life of love And in all situations We can have this prayer charanarathi paramasya tasya me sthu My dear lord Let there be attraction in my heart For your lotus feet And actually those lotus feet manifest Themselves in a In a conceivable way through the holy name of Krishna Sri Prabhupada would say that When we chant Krishna is dancing on our Dancing on our tongues Or his lotus feet are touching our tongues And when we chant attentively Gradually we develop a taste for the holy name That means we develop a taste for Relishing the lotus feet of Krishna And thereby we too can attain Supreme perfection So Whenever we are to chant It is important that we Stop relying on Sense perception Stop doing niriksha Niriksha Trying to see with our senses and evaluate What is the benefit I am getting And instead we see with scripture And understand that the Supreme aspiration of life is charanarathi The attraction to Krishna And the best Way to develop the charanarathi Is by Letting those charan Letting those feet dance On Our tongues And thereby invoke The taste for Krishna in our hearts Thank you