SB 01.09.40 – The madness of ecstasy offers relief from the madness of misery

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Thank you Srimad Bhagavatam 1940 So here Vishnu Pitamaha While recollecting The glory of the lord Who is Remembering Also remembers The most glorious First time Of that lord This is the First reference To the Raas Leela In the Srimad Bhagavatam That lord His movements Are very graceful Attractive And he delights In performing Acts of the fascinating And he smiles Very sweetly When he looks He looks with Beautiful loving eyes And Actually When the gopis Beheld his Wonderful attributes Of the lord The mentality The level of The consciousness That they attained The absorption In him that they got Was very exalted And what were they doing This is referring To when Krishna Had disappeared Going away From the gopis At that time The gopis Whilst In a Frantic And frenzied Desperation To try to Find Krishna Where Actually Somehow Or the other Trying to keep themselves Sane and alive By Remembering Krishna And the way they Remembered him Was by Enacting Re-enacting The pastimes That he had performed And as they were Doing that The absorption The divine madness That they attained Was exalted So They were mad In ecstasy Andha Is Mad They were Imitating his acts And they were Mad with love And Prakriti Magan Killayasi And their whole nature Went a Radical change The one gopi became Putana Another became Krishna One became Kaliya Another became Krishna And like that they performed So many pastimes Which These gopis They revealed The exalted love For Krishna By the agony And ecstasy Which they underwent When they felt Separated from him So Bhishma Is demonstrating How Even Krishna Has very intimate Pastimes Now in the Mahabharata There is no reference To Bhishma Ever going to Vrindavan Directly Nor is there such a thing In the Bhagavatam And Krishna’s Pastimes In Vrindavan Are confidential And of course Bhishma Is a confidential devotee He is one of the Mahajanas And he is describing His very confidential Pastimes Now in describing them He is meditating on them At the moment of his death In fact These two verses later His talk will end And he will depart From the world Which indicates How How Closely He is cherishing Those pastimes Because What does one Think about At the time of death That which one Understands to be Very sacred Very Supremely Exalted And he is Recognizing Acknowledging And proclaiming To the world The exaltedness The purity The sanctity The sublime Spirituality Of these pastimes When he is making Them an object Of meditation At the time of death And the idea Of meditating On Krishna The purpose of Meditating on Krishna Is to Express our Devotion for him And to experience The solace That he offers Through his remembrance To us And the different Pastimes of Krishna Attract our hearts And offer us Different kinds Of solace Which ultimately Connects us Deeper and deeper With Krishna So Whatever remembrance Is available Through different pastimes Is also available Through the holy name And the essence Whether it is a pastime Or whether it is the holy name Is that we Try to take shelter Of Krishna Come what may That we put aside Our temporary Material distractions Whether they be Pleasant or Unpleasant And we focus Simply on Loving Krishna And when we do this Then We can pray That one day We will also become So absorbed That we can also Become unmadandha Not that we act Like mad people But that We don’t care about That which is Unimportant And we absorb Ourselves In that which is Supremely important That which is Connected with Krishna In fact that kind of Divine madness Is Not just The It’s desirable It’s supremely desirable It is the aspiration That we have And we get Glimpses of this Unmadandha This divine madness And sometimes in Kirtan we dance And we experience An extraordinary ecstasy And We can experience this Again and again As we advance More and more In our spiritual life And by remembering How Bhishma Is getting shelter Even at the moment of death In the Remembrance of the Lord We can also Cherish that remembrance Whenever we have The opportunity To cultivate it As we have When we are chanting