SB 01.09.38 – Krishna’s love is so sublime that it can be relished only by going beyond material vision

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Shrinad Bhagavatam 1938 Sheet Vishik Hato Vishin Damsha Shatach Pariplata Tatai Nome Prasabham Visasar Madhvadhartham Sabhautame Bhagwan Gatir Mukunda Sheet Vishik Hato So here Bhishma Pitamah Has come Is continuing His recollection Of the most Climatic Moment of his life When The Lord Took up a chariot wheel And charged Towards Bhishma Out of his love For both Bhishma And for Arjuna So that Lord He Remembering how that Lord Looked Sheet Vishik Hato His He was wounded Hata By Sheet Vishik Sharp arrows Vishin Damsha His shield had been Scattered So all the warriors Normally don’t attack Charioteers Of the opposite party But sometimes in the heat Of the battle The charioteer also Gets wounded And Sometimes The warriors even Intentionally or inadvertently Kill the charioteers also So it is the Responsibility of the warrior On the opposite side To protect his charioteer So Bhishma’s attack Had been so overwhelming That Arjuna Had neither been able To protect himself Nor Krishna So Krishna was Vishin Damsha His Shield and his Armour Had become scattered Broken away And then He was wounded And blood was Smearing from his body And yet that Lord Who was himself Wounded What did he do? He ran towards me As an aggressor He ran towards me And Prasabham Charged towards me In an angry mode To kill me Madhavadhartham That Lord Let my consciousness Be directed towards That Lord Who is Mukunda Who is the giver Of liberation So in this past time The most extraordinary Thing is That Krishna is giving up His word To preserve the word Of his devotee But along with that We see the Extraordinariness of Bhishma’s love also What devotee Would ever want to Shoot arrows at the Lord And what a person Would delight At the vision of someone Charging to kill him Yet Bhishma is doing Exactly that He says let that Lord Who is charging towards me To Madhavadhartham To kill me Let my consciousness Be fixed on him Because Bhishma Is not seeing the Temporary material reality Wherein The Lord is charging To kill him He is seeing far beyond this To the supreme Spiritual reality That what is happening Is reciprocation Of sublime love Love so pure And so exalted That The material mind Can scarcely comprehend it This is a love Where The Lord is Reciprocating Rasa With his devotee In miryaras Bhishma is serving Krishna By shooting arrows And in reciprocation Krishna is serving Bhishma by charging At him And as both of them Are In the Externally appearance Of a battle Of a fierce War That is meant to go on Till death But internally Actually they are simply Reciprocating love And It is Bhishma is not relishing The prospect of death The devotee is not a Masochist Somebody who gets pain Gets pleasure In causing pain To oneself But what Bhishma is relishing Is The expression Of love That is Evident In Krishna’s taking Of a chariot Wheel To protect His beloved devotee Arjuna And to protect The world Of another beloved devotee Bhishma And Bhishma is seeing Not just the chariot Wheel Which may threaten To be thrown at him Which will be A threat to his life Which will be thrown to him And kill him He is thinking Oh how glorious Is my lord How Thrilling Is his love How fortunate Am I That I have got Such a lord Who is ready To sacrifice Everything For the sake of love And Why should I Sacrifice Even one Why should I Spend even one moment Thinking of anything Other than such a Wonderful lord Let me Just absorb My consciousness In such a lord Whose love Is so sublime And so self-sacrificing That he is ready To give up The highest thing For a Kshatriya His own word of honour For the sake of Love of his devotees Let me remember That lord So actually When we recollect This sublime Sweetness Of the love Between the lord And the devotee As is manifested Through this Vishwa Krishna Interaction Then we feel Attracted Inspired Charmed Captivated Enchanted To Also Offer our heart To Krishna And enter into This sublime World of love And this Desire To enter Into Krishna’s Sweet sublime World of love Is the strongest Fuel For all our devotional Activities Chanting Hearing Serving And by If that desire Which is generated Which is engendered Nourished By meditating On the lord’s Sweet pastimes Becomes strong If that desire Fuels our bhakti Then we can rapidly March back to Krishna To join in the That wonderful World of love Thank you