SB 11.23.44 – Chanting provides the opportunity to stop embracing the mind and start embracing Krishna

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ourselves thank you here now he is started contemplating on the super soul means without anywhere art without any endeavor here is endeavor often atma so there is no endeavor for that atma this refers to the super soul the super soul who is accompanying the soul doesn’t have to do any endeavor doesn’t have to struggle against the modes against the temptations that super soul looks upon the soul who is going traveling through metal existence with the mind refers to full of effulgence of enlightenment so full of enlightenment the art the super soul is fully enlightened and looks upon the soul as much as my friend is looking upon so the super soul is right next to the soul and is looking upon the soul as my friend unfortunately the soul is not looking at the super soul the soul is inside so means to embrace this is embracing the mind so the mind is which projects the image of the material world upon him the soul that means that the mind is the filter through which we see the world and depending on the kind of actions we have done in the past the desires we have cultivated and acted on accordingly certain impressions are created in the mind and our future experiences are shaped by those impressions so if a person has been lusty in the past then the lusty impressions are there in the end and swallowing them so accordingly the world is seen in lusty terms you know everywhere there are alluring sense objects if a person has been excessively greedy all the time fantasizing about then everything the mind reflects the material world in monetary terms so that’s what one sees everywhere and accordingly according to the desires which we have we see the objects of desire we see the world filled with those objects of desire one gets engaged according along due to the association of three modes this soul so he’s talking about referring to himself in the third person here the brahmana that just see my misfortune the supreme lord is enlightened and is ready to help me that’s why he’s accompanying me and glancing at me compassionately also but imagine if one person is there looking at us but instead we look in the opposite direction and embrace somebody else and completely blind and deafen ourselves to the to the presence and even the existence of the other person who is behind us so like that we have embraced the mind and blinded and deafened ourselves to the presence of the super soul in our own hearts and the mind paints the picture of the material world according to our past fanciful imaginations of how the world will be a place of enjoyment and thereby it sends us on a wild goose chase wild goose chase means a chase where we will never get what we want we just the wild goose is very difficult to catch material pleasures are very impossible to get because they never they can never fulfill the soul’s longing for eternal happiness so as long as we keep embracing the mind then till that time we will still stay we’ll stay subjected to the the mind’s projection the mind’s projected image of how the world will sometime in the future fulfill our hopes for happiness and in that way we will stay on going from illusion to illusion going from frustration to frustration but never realizing that this world is a place of misery which we need to turn away from it’s only when we instead of embracing the mind instead of parigraha we instead do the super soul parigraha we embrace we do krishna parigraha embrace krishna and that krishna when we have turned our back to him still manifests in our consciousness as the holy name so even if we cannot get away from our leave the mind right away the mind which we have embraced still we can try to chant the holy names and as we chant the holy names we start relishing the sweetness and the strength that comes through contact with krishna and as we get more and more of the strength and the sweetness we feel inspired to turn back towards krishna and turn away from the mind and gradually by that we get the impetus to let go of the mind and when we embrace the mind mind also embraces and holds us when we release the embrace our embrace around the mind and gradually we get the strength to push off the mind pushing off the mind doesn’t mean that we will no longer have a mind but the mind will no longer have a hold on us the way it has right now so we will not see the world as the mind is projecting it to us swallowing them but we will see the world as it actually is based on the knowledge that the hiranyatma the enlightened super soul gives us through guru sadhu shastra and through his own presence as the chaitya guru in the heart and then we will see how the hopes for happiness in this world are false and how the anxieties of misery and anxieties which distract us are also not all that worth agitating about me nothing is worth giving up our connection with the holy name because even if the problems are there giving up the holy name and giving up krishna is not going to solve the problems it is it is only our disconnection with krishna which is placed us in the problematic situation and though we have to do the needful to deal with the problems whenever they come upon us but the most essential thing that we need to do to eventually get out of this problematic arena of material existence is to take shelter of the holy name of krishna and that opportunity is offered to us when we chant the holy names so remembering that chanting is an opportunity to embrace krishna manifesting as the holy name and thereby let go of our embrace of our deadly embrace of the viciously misleading mind we can get the impetus get the intellectual conviction and the inspiration