SB 11.23.21 – Devotion protects us from corruption by our own greed and victimization by others greed
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shramad bhagavatam 11.23.21 even for a little bit of artha people become agitated they become inflamed the fire of greed burns within their hearts and then what happens because of that agitation and inflammation they quickly give up their affectionate feelings towards their loved ones and then after that sprudho they become quarrelsome they may even become murderous they may even kill within a short time they give up their well-wishers so this is how greed can not only be corrupt but it can also pervert corrupt means that which is good that becomes something something bad gets added to it whereas pervert means that which is good becomes entirely transmogrified not only just changed by some addition of contaminations but completely opposite in nature in quality so of course the soul always remains pure but in terms of interactions in interpersonal dealings a person may show a particular face at a particular time but may change that entirely when money matters come up so do these sort of warnings imply that we shouldn’t have relationships not at all what it implies is that we should know that the ultimately trustworthy relationship is with Krishna and certainly if we face this kind of reverse if I kind of we become victims of this kind of infatuation and the resulting disappointments or even betrayals then actually if we have developed a connection with Krishna then the faithlessness of others helps us to lean more on the faithfulness of Krishna and in that way even the rejection by others becomes a opportunity for a deeper greater connection with Krishna but for that to happen it is important that whenever we have the opportunity we maintain some kind of steady relationship with Krishna because otherwise suddenly at a particular moment when our world is falling apart to suddenly connect with Krishna may not be easy and in our daily devotional practices by remembering that Krishna’s generally we use the word faithfulness for what we do or towards for Krishna and we should be faithful that we should have faith and we should act accordingly as per the faith but when we talk about Krishna’s faithfulness for example Krishna says that so I will protect my devotees so the inevitable relationship is based on faith so Krishna’s faithfulness means that Krishna will protect us he will keep his word so Krishna no matter whatever happens nothing can allure him to leave us from within our hearts and go away to someone else for something else because Krishna is forever within us and are ready to help us he is the most trustworthy life companion for us and reading or hearing about such ghastly perversions caused by greed can doubly give us impetus for strengthening our connection with Krishna firstly by reminding us that greed may corrupt us even in this way even us in this way and we have to have our inner purification mechanisms strongly in place to ensure that we ourselves don’t get corrupted secondly this kind of heartbreaking betrayals can happen to us from even our loved ones of course we don’t go around thinking of such things but it can happen and then when the faithlessness of others hits us and the faithfulness of Krishna will be our shelter and we have to prepare for that shelter by regularly taking shelter of Krishna to the best of our capacity during our meditation sessions thank you