SB 01.09.39 – See the beautiful benevolent Lord in all situations and pray for devotion to him

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1939 Here After describing In the previous two verses The pastime When Krishna Sacrificed His own word For his devotee’s Word Now That lord Who is acting as Parasarathi Krishna is praying That let he be My final meditation Vijaya Ratha Kutumba Aata Totre Vijaya So Vijaya Ratha The Rajasthantha Of the chariot Of Arjuna Kutumba Kutumba refers to Normally family Just as a householder Protects a family Even when there is A lot of danger So like that Krishna protected Arjuna’s chariot With all expertise And endeavours Aata Totre And for that He had a stick Totre In his hands In the right hand He had a stick So that he could Discipline the horses That were Driving the chariot Of Arjuna Nritahaya Rashmini And On the stick He also had The ropes in his hand Nritahaya So Rashmini Nritahaya is the The Higher his horses Like we have Higher Greeva The lord who appeared With the head of a Horse So Nritahaya Rashmini The ropes Were shining And the ropes Were there And the lord Touched the ekshani And he looked Very beautiful When he was in the chariot With a Stick And with the Ropes of the horses And he said Bhagwate Ratirastume Humurshor Let My Attraction be To this Bhagwate To this lord Humurshor Humurshor Vishnachakra Thakur explains It just doesn’t mean One who is about to die It also Specifically means One who wants to die So Bheeshma is Implying that To be able to Behold such a Wonderful vision Of the lord While one is Departing from the world That would be the Perfection of life And he is saying I want I want to die Not that I am going to die Most people When they realize That they are going to die It’s not that they are Ready or eager Certainly not eager to die But Bheeshma is saying With this vision in my mind I will happily Embrace death And then Yam yamiriksh Hatha Gatha Svarupam If Those who saw the lord thus In the water field Those who saw the lord thus Because they were Beholding the lord What happened Hatha gatha svarupam They Became liberated And attained their svarupa So they were actually In the heat of the battle And suddenly they saw the lord When they were about to die So their meditation On the lord Could not have been as strong Or as steady And certainly not As devotional As Has been the meditation Of Bheeshma Or as will be the meditation Of Bheeshma When he will depart So Bheeshma is focusing That If I can Meditate this way Then I will also attain my svarupa And he is praying Let my Quattro action Be to the supreme lord So Bheeshma is Knowing that he is Close to death And like that all of us Are close to death How close we may not know But it is better to be Safe than to be sorry It is better to assume That death can come Today Even the next moment Rather than to assume Death will come after 30-40 years And to think that I can be complacent Till then Actually If you become more If you remember Death It will bring Reminders of the Urgency of cultivating Spiritual life And that reminder of Urgency Will increase The intensity Of our devotional practice And To help us increase Our intensity We will also pray like this To the lord Let my Consciousness be attracted To you my dear lord And as this move This consciousness That is vital for Intense devotional practice And When we Meditate on How The devotees see Whatever the lord is doing From the external vision Bhishma Bhishma Might see that Oh Krishna is Protecting my enemy And by thus Protecting the person Who is going to Kill me Krishna is actually A part of the Conspiracy to kill me But Bhishma doesn’t See it like that At all Why? Because he is not Seeing with material vision He is seeing ultimately With spiritual vision And seeing that Ultimately the lord Is also When he executes His will His will is for The good of all And through the Execution of his will Even Bhishma Will benefit it Supremely benefit it Even it appears As if Externally He is destroyed So when Threatening situations Come in our life At that time If we can remember That actually Krishna is still Sitting In the chariot Of our heart And Krishna is still Although we may not be We are not as Devoted as Arjuna But that doesn’t mean That Krishna abandons us Krishna loves everyone And Krishna wants To protect us And Krishna wants to Guide us also To the supreme Welfare So he is Rashmi He is still beautiful He is still in control He is sitting In the chariot Of our heart Waiting for us To Stop ordering him And to start Receiving his orders And When we chant Tentatively Despite whatever Distractions the mind brings By that itself We are showing Krishna That we are ready To make the change From Wanting to Order him To Wanting to Receive orders From him And Krishna will Give us more and more Guidance More and more Protection And by that We will be Steadily marching On our journey Back to him