SB 01.15.24 – Choosing faith can ensure that the very things which may drag us away from Krishna will impel us towards him

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actually we will have krishna thank you arjuna has in the previous verse described how the kuru the yadus fought amongst themselves and destroyed each other completely almost completely now he’s described he’s giving uh explanation of how such horrendous things can happen he says he says such things happen usually mostly by the will of the supreme lord it is by his will that sometimes sometimes the living beings they kill each other and one another sometimes they protect so as devotees we know that the supreme lord is the cause of all causes now we do need to look at specific causes of events to understand how to deal with them at a material level so for example yes the yadus got drunk and then there were some festering conflicts between krittavarman and satyaki satyaki was angry with krittavarman that he had assisted ashwathama in killing the pandava warriors when they were sleeping and krittavarman was angry with satyaki that satyaki had killed bhurishrava when he had closed his eyes and he was in prayavrata in meditation so basically both of them had some festering ill feelings about each other and they just exploded at that particular time and satyaki just lopped off the head of krittavarman and then krittavarman’s associates they came and attacked satyaki and they killed and eventually this the war blew into the proportions that became an annihilation so there are immediate provocations which may need to be analyzed but also we should not get caught up in this analysis alone we also need to understand that beyond the immediate provocations there is the ultimate cause so unless the lord sanctions nothing can happen and once the lord sanctions even the most unlikely thing can happen so the yadus fighting among themselves and killing each other is extremely unlikely but when the lord has sanctioned it it will happen and we may not be able to immediately understand when something happens something disastrous happens why the lord may sanction it and how it can possibly be for the good of anyone but this is where the role of faith comes in that we understand krishna is the supreme well-wisher of everyone there are two kinds of faith first that krishna is always in control and second is that krishna always works for the good of everyone and both these kinds of faith get tested when reversals happen in life but arjuna who has not just witnessed a great disaster but has also been victimized by a great disaster not only did he see his friends the yadus along with his beloved lord depart from the world but he also saw himself being defeated by infidel cowherds but still we see arjuna is maintaining his faith and he’s saying that it is it is the will of the lord so sometimes when things happen around us or to us we can’t understand why it happens and how it is the will of the lord and for what purpose but even in such situations we know that what is the will of the lord for us we may not know the specifics of how the lord wants us to respond but we do know that he wants us to continue loving him continue serving him continue moving forward in our relationship with and to the extent we do that to that extent he will reveal his will to us and he will do supreme good for us so in our prayerful approach to the lord through meditation through chanting it is important that we remember krishna is always in control and krishna is always the well-wisher of everyone and that krishna is manifesting as the holy name and to the extent we can meditate on these two things to that extent whatever happens around us will not disturb us excessively some level of disturbance is natural but that disturbance doesn’t have to drag us away from krishna in fact that disturbance can become the impotence impetus by which we get a drag towards krishna because we realize the absolute necessity for his shelter because we understand that in a world gone insane krishna’s shelter is the only thing that will keep us sane and that way that kind of devotional reinterpretation of events based on faith will ensure that the very things which could have dragged us away from krishna will drag us towards krishna and thereby take us ultimately to his eternal shelter