SB 11.07.05 – More important than saving the world is saving oneself

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Thank you maya tyakte mahitale jano bhadra ruchir bhadra pavishyati kalau yuge so here the Lord is telling Uddhava that namastavyam tayaivebha certainly you should not reside maya tyakte mahitale you should not reside here in this world when I give it up maya tyakte mahitale when I give up this material world jano bhadra ruchir bhadra the people will engage in sinful and auspicious ruchir and they will not only do those things but they will develop a ruchi the word ruchi refers to in a positive sense among the lineages of bhakti to a positive attachment a strong overpowering attachment to Krishna and his devotional service but here here the ruchi is happening to abhadra that means people are getting attached addicted to inauspicious things bhavishyati kalau yuge and in future in Kali Yuga this is what is going to happen so this is a message through Uddhava for all of us that Kali Yuga is a place where we should not desire to stay that we should desire to come out of this mess of the material world and return back to Krishna namastavyam dayai eva ha so we should all this is a very good verse to meditate on especially when we are chanting the holy names certainly as a part of our devotional service we want to act in this world and contribute to this world in a positive way to share Krishna’s message with others and to help people come closer to Krishna and ultimately take the path back to Krishna but while we are doing that actually Prabhupada would say that to save others is good but to save ourselves is much more important and when we are chanting the holy names namastavyam dayai eva ha we have to remember that actually namastavyam that I do not wish to reside you should not reside in this world ultimately I have to get out of this world when a person is in the prison the prisoner’s primary responsibility is to conduct oneself in such a way that the person can be quickly released from the prison now during that time the person can also inspire and help other prisoners that is good but one shouldn’t think that making the prison a good place is the mission of the prisoner no the mission of the prisoner in the prison is to come out of the prison similarly our mission in this material world should be to come out of this material world and of course a part of the process of coming out of the material world is to also do good in this world but there are times when we need to exclusively focus on the primary mission of getting out of this world and that we can focus on when we are doing meditation focusing on sustained and to some extent exclusive remembrance of Krishna Namaste so we can meditate when we are trying to chant the holy name that Krishna is telling us don’t stay in this world come back to me come back to me you are trying to live purely Bhadra and this world is filled with people who are Abhadravichira those who are attached to material things if you let your thoughts wander too much among those people and their ideas then you will also become similarly Abhadravichira so let’s avoid that by remembering that our primary mission is not to bring about some unprecedented extraordinary earth shaking things in this world but it is to shake our own priorities and remember that our first priority is to revive our love for Krishna and to return back to Krishna when we keep this priority in mind this doesn’t mean that we will become negligent about our material life but we will become diligent about our spiritual life and that diligence about our spiritual life will also make us diligent in our material life but it will make us diligent without becoming indulgent without becoming caught up in indulgences in sensual indulgences and fantasies that we will become happy in material life but rather it will enable us to become focused on even using all our material talents and our activities in the material world as a means to fulfill Krishna’s mission for our life and to participate in doing our part in Krishna’s mission in the world so in that way our prayers and our devotional connection with Krishna is our first and foremost contribution for our own good and for the good of the world