SB 11.07.03 – Disaster is also a part of the Lord’s plan

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.7.2 mayānishpāditaṁ yatra devakāryaṁ śeṣa-taha vedartham avatīrṇoham aṁśena brahmaṇārthitā So the Lord is telling Uddhavavarya mayānishpāditaṁ yatra nishpāditaṁ Accomplished. I have now accomplished devakāryaṁ śeṣa-taha the mission of the devatas vedartham avatīrṇoham that purpose for which I had descended aṁśena brahmaṇārthitā aṁśena, along with my part that is Baldev, Balramji brahmaṇārthitā, when Brahmaji had asked me to come Now, how can we say that the Lord’s mission is accomplished when still there are conditioned souls in the world and still they are suffering actually this world is always a place of suffering and the suffering in this world cannot be entirely or permanently eradicated what can be done is, a system can be set up by which people can return back to God if they want to so that is what is being done over here so, just as in a jail there is a sentence and there are people who are suffering in the jail and the jail is meant to be a place of suffering so that it will act as a place for reformation now, suppose there is excessive disruption of the order in the jail itself that means, one set of prisoners start beating up other set of prisoners and there is complete chaos and violence and terror within the jail then, if the normal jail authorities find it impossible to control the prisoners then they may ask for additional support they may ask for some emergency forces to be deployed and when those emergency forces come it is not that their success is that the jail will end their success, it’s not that they destroy all the prisoners or they release all the prisoners no, they re-establish the order by which people can live in the jail and gradually come out of the jail after reforming themselves similarly, when the lord descends in this world he descends when there is an emergency level disruption of the universal order as he describes when there is a deterioration of dharma to an alarming and disastrous degree at that time the lord appears and when the lord appears his primary purpose is to elevate how does he elevate? those who participate in his pastimes those who are fortunate enough to redirect their love to him they get liberated and return back to him but for others he sets up the system of dharma by which they can work out their own purification, elevation and liberation gradually so when Krishna is saying my mission is accomplished that doesn’t mean that all demons have been killed forever and the demoniac propensity has been killed forever no, especially those demoniac elements who had been excessively disrupting the universal order they have been curbed and they have been killed and now the normal functioning of the universe can go on similarly, when the lord descends as the holy name in our heart sometimes we express that now I am chanting nicely now I am praying nicely that means now there should not be any anarthas in my heart as long as we are in the material world anarthas will trouble us but as long as we keep practicing devotional service we will be following the process by which we can get out of the material world so when we chant the holy name if we expect the chanting helps us to make our life orderly, peaceful and joyful in this world then we are having an unrealistic expectation the holy name descends to this world not to set everything perfectly and permanently right in this world but to show us the right way to get out of this world and to make us right so that we can follow that way and get out of that world when we have this understanding of what the holy name actually does to us clear then unrealistic expectations don’t block us and distract us but rather our energy gets released to receive the full supreme and unique blessings of the holy name