SB 11.07.11 – Don’t mistake spontaneity to be whimsicality

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world lord krishna while instructing buddhava is now telling how a person who is transcendent material existence and material conceptions lives yatharvaka yatharvaka means like an innocent child so an innocent child does not have any bad in the heart and the child acts spontaneously so when a person acts spontaneously that doesn’t mean that the person disregards scripture rather the person because of the pure nature naturally harmonizes with the essential principles taught in the scriptures so dosha budhya bhayati to so rather than analyzing at the material dosha budhya material intelligence which discriminates this is good and this is bad so at the material level there are distinctions of what is auspicious what is inauspicious bhayati to ubhayati to one goes beyond both these discriminations of good and bad and then nishedhan nivartate and the forbidden activities one doesn’t give up nor does one think that something is good and so one does it one doesn’t see things at the material level rather one sees everything spiritually and sees within the activities their value based on their relevance to one’s spiritual growth and one acts accordingly so when we are situated at the spiritual level and act according to spiritual intelligence we will be beyond the range of material regulations going beyond the range of material regulations doesn’t mean that we won’t care for those regulations rather we won’t need those regulations to care for ourselves our spiritual conscience our inner compass will be so strong that spontaneously we will make the right choices spontaneously we will make the choices that will be the best for our spiritual growth and these choices will be in harmony even with material moral principles so from material perspective we have to avoid succumbing to lust and greed from the material perspective doesn’t mean entirely materialistic perspective from the material pious perspective karmakand perspective one should not envy others property one should not eye other people’s spouses so now at a material level we may give it up we may avoid it because we understand it will be powerful it will be sinful and we will have to be reactions for it but at a spiritual level of consciousness we will be able to give it up not because it is sinful but because it is unhealthy for our spiritual life so based on our spiritual conscience we will be able to act spontaneously so spontaneously does not mean intrinsically but spontaneously means that the outer injunction becomes redundant because the inner direction is so clear and based on that inner direction we always make not just the wise choices but the wisest choices that facilitate our spiritual growth so we cannot prematurely assume that we are at this stage at our level we need to diligently follow scripture and know that by following scripture eventually we will come to the stage where we will be able to transcend the dependence the reliance on external by external direction external injunction does not mean direction from the material world external injunction but means direction from shastra so Krishna also says in the Bhagavad Gita that when the deviated transcendentalist again becomes connected with spiritual reality at that time that spontaneous attraction to spiritual reality takes the transcendentalist beyond the realm of Vedic sound and Krishna says also in 2.52 and 53 that once one has heard this one will not be disturbed by hearing anything else so when we try to fix our mind during meditation trying to pray to the lord at that time our primary focus should be my dear lord how can I connect with you and we let everything else not matter and the more we become deeply connected with the lord the more we will be able to stay on the right track without the reliance on external injunctions because our conscience will become our awakened and alert conscience will become our compass and that’s how we will be able to make the best choices always