SB 01.09.37 – How can we not love the Lord who says to his devotee: ‘Let thy will, not mine, be done’?

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1.9.37 Srimad Bhagavatam 1.9.37 So here Vishwapitama is remembering His most cherished Treasured Relishable Pastime with the Lord Where the Lord demonstrated For both his devotees Arjuna and Krishna By putting them Before himself On the ninth day of the battle Bhishma had vowed to Either Kill Arjuna or cause Krishna To lift up weapons So He put aside his own world Krishna’s world was that I will not lift up weapons During this battle But He made my world come true How? He ensured that He did what I had expected In order to protect Arjuna He had to lift up his weapons And I had said that He would have to And he did that And then what did he do? God of the chariot Dhritarashtra Dhritarashtra Chaladgur He took out Dhritarashtra The chariot wheel And ran after me Trampling the earth Chaladgur And how was he charging towards me? Haririvahantum Bhangatottariya Haririvahantum When a Lion Charges towards the elephant To kill it And as he was running His uttari flew away And he did not even realize That he kept charging towards me So Bhishma Remembers how So great is the love of Krishna That For a Kshatriya Normally one’s word Is considered to be one’s honour Where the greatest honour of life For a Kshatriya is one’s word And a Kshatriya would rather die Than not live up to one’s word So To give up one’s honour for a Kshatriya Is more difficult Than to give up one’s life also And yet Of course the Lord is transcendental But the Lord Is ultimately Also a person And for the Lord To give up his word Is extremely difficult In the sense that As a Kshatriya When he is playing the role of a Kshatriya To give up One’s word is unlikely Extremely difficult And for the Lord He doesn’t have to give up his word But still he does that For the sake of love Such is the love Bhishma is remembering That he gave up his word So that my word could Come true Often we think of That we have to surrender to Krishna That means we have to give up our will And We Let Krishna’s will be done As it is said in the Bible Let thy will be done So often we think Why do I have to give up my will Subconsciously we may Resent Having to surrender to Krishna Having to give up our will But here Krishna shows When it is a matter of devotion He gives up his will For the sake of his devotee He had made a plan That he would not lift up a weapon Any weapon But for Preserving Arjuna’s life And preserving Bhishma’s word Krishna Gives up His own word And such is His love for his devotees How can We not love such a Lord Bhishma is completely absorbed In that extraordinary memory Where The Lord Let my word Prove false So that your word proves true So we could say that Krishna is saying Let thy will Not my will be done My will was not To raise the weapons And your will was that I raise the weapons So Krishna is So Krishna is practically saying And doing To Bhishma Let thy will be done Not mine And this is the sweetness of Krishna’s intimate loving Reciprocations With his devotees And It is this world of devotion That we can enter By remembering Krishna By chanting his holy names And by choosing to love Krishna And Bhishma in his final moments Is remembering this Lord Who is so Gloriously And disarmingly Selfless That when we contemplate On the Lord’s Selflessness Then Whatever Resentment We may have to surrender That will just Evaporate And we will be able to Invite the Lord Into our heart Offer our heart to him And thereby March back to him Thank you