SB 01.15.21 – Everything can be reduced to nothing in one moment – seek that which is the source of everything

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anything else in our life thank you in this verse is describing how nothing is different and yet everything is different then krishna is no longer there from the external point of view nothing is different i have the same gandhi i have some same kind of arrows they may not be the exactly same arrows but similar kind of arrows he still has knowledge of the even the celestial astras his horses are still the same his chariot itself may not exactly be the same at the end of the kurukshetra war um krishna told arjuna you first get out get off the chariot normally krishna would get off the chariot and then arjuna would get off that is generally the etiquette when a person is driving a car the chauffeur gets out and the chauffeur opens the door of the car so that the passenger the owner can come out so normally krishna would alight from the chariot and then arjuna would alight but in this case on after the 18th day of the war in the pandava z1 krishna told arjuna you first alight arjuna surprised but he obeyed and then krishna jumped off the chariot and the moment he jumped off the whole chariot went up in flames and krishna was surprised in shock and krishna said that this chariot had been attacked by so many enemies so many ferocious weapons that it would have been burned to ashes long ago it is only because of my presence that it was surviving so that itself demonstrates krishna’s capacity to not only protect his devotees but also protect the devotees paraphernalia with which they can serve krishna but so then although the chariot is not exactly the same but still it’s similar you know arjuna is still on a chariot arjuna is not chariot less when he was fighting against the infidels and even although that chariot was special in terms of having been got from agnidev but still whatever chariot arjuna had he was a prince who was ruling the whole world and he had formidable chariot so the in terms of material things the material things may not exactly be the same all the time but they are largely similar so materially things were very similar and he’s saying and of course the warrior is the same and who is that warrior so indra is human beings patayo is the master or the king so the lord of the people that is the kings they were offering respects obeisances they can warriors all over the world considered krishna to arjuna to be the greatest warrior the foremost archer in the whole world and if those extraordinary abilities were coming from arjuna’s externals or even from arjuna himself then he should always have had those abilities but he said sarvam shani tad abhut asadi shariktam in one moment asad abhut everything became asad why because of e shiriktam because the lord had departed and along with him the extraordinary potency that he had given that has also departed and he says basmanyutam and he gives three examples of how everything else becomes unproductive for when oblations are poured on ashes they cannot cause the ashes to catch fire and illuminate money produced through a magic show doesn’t last for long otherwise the magician wouldn’t need it we charge people for the magic shows and on barren land if seeds are sown they do not give any product so through these three examples arjuna is conveying how something which may appear to be the cause of a result is no longer the cause of result if something more fundamental is wrong ghee or oil it produces flames but something else is required that is wood seeds produce crops but something else is required that is fertile ground and money magic shows again money seems to be real but actually when we see it something else is to be required that it has to be founded in the reality in the magic show just by the moment of the hand the money seems to be produced but it’s not real so he’s saying that isha the lord is the foundation of all our extraordinary achievements and without him everything will become reduced to nothing and when everything material is reduced to nothing then actually it forces us to see beyond the everything material that has been our definition of everything and to see that something which is actually the source of everything material that is krishna and to focus on krishna and to gain our sustenance and strength from him and that is what arjuna will do so whenever our material accomplishments and our material ambitions and our mental anxieties start distracting us from our prayerful remembrance of krishna we can focus on this point that everything can be reduced to nothing in one moment and at that time we will be forced to take shelter of krishna and we may not be we have not prepared so better when we have the time to pray to chant to focus on krishna let’s do that wholeheartedly and then whether we have everything or whether we have nothing materially still we will never be bereaved because we will have everything that matters