SB 11.23.25 – The resources we have for purifying ourselves are fast running out

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thank you विर्थया अर्थेहया वित्तम् so विर्थया अर्थेहया विर्थया अर्थेहया is that davanti brahmana is lamenting that i waste इहया इहया is endeavor actually what did i do विर्थया Vyartha is wasted, useless, so I endeavored to acquire more and more wealth, whereas a wise person, I was infatuated, Pramathasya, so Pramathasya is contrasted with Kushala, in contrast to an infatuated person like me, a Kushala, what would an expert person do? Arthvayobalam, that is a person who will use one’s Vyartha, one’s life span, especially one’s youth, Balam, one’s strength, so a wise person will use this for what purpose? Siddhanti, for attaining perfection, for making spiritual advancement, for developing love for Krishna and attaining the supreme perfection of life, so even for attaining spiritual perfection we need some basic material resources, devotion is a matter of the heart, which does not require any material resources at all, but for the process of purification, we do need, we need some material resources, we need the tongue to chant the holy names, we need the body to do seva to Krishna and to use the body for serving Krishna, we also need to take care of the body, so when one has lost all of one’s material resources, especially in terms of strength and health and wealth, then even the process of pure spiritual life in terms of sadhana, bhakti becomes difficult, of course in some exceptional cases people may feel heartfelt remorse and may take wholehearted shelter, but bhakti is not just a matter of one-time surrender in the moment of helplessness, bhakti is a matter of lifelong, steady, sustained commitment to Krishna even in the presence of alternatives and temptations, so sometimes we may feel that maybe some great calamities will come in my life and then maybe I’ll take shelter of Krishna, I’ll become more serious about Krishna consciousness, we may or we may not, maybe we may even become resentful of Krishna and hateful of Krishna for having brought such problems in our life or allowed such problems in our life, so we can’t postpone our devotion because of certain conceptions like that, some unfounded hopes like that, rather we have to understand that spiritual advancement comes by steady consistent right choices and the right choice that confronts us when we are practicing devotional service, when we are chanting Hare Krishna is whether I will fix my mind on Krishna, if I fix my mind on Krishna at this moment I make that right choice now, then through that right choice I am moving towards Krishna and in that way the resource that I have now that is my time, I’m using it rightly and I am moving towards the supreme perfection of life of eternal love and everlasting, eternal love and ecstatic relationship with Krishna, so even if we feel distracted by inner temptations and outer circumstances, outer pressures, we know that postponing our devotion for a later stage is going to backfire on us because that’s not going to make life easier, in fact we have to redirect our heart towards Krishna and redirection requires effort, it requires time, it requires practice and if we postpone it now then we may find that we have too little time to do it in the future, so by capitalizing on the resources that we have right now, we can create for ourselves the supreme eternal fortune of love for Krishna and return to the abode of Krishna, that is Kushala Agni Satyamiti, that is the way the expert people had had and then we won’t have any lamentations like what the Avanti Brahmana is having, so by learning from the mistakes and the lamentations of lamentations of people like the Avanti Brahmana given these scriptures, we can avoid those mistakes and save