SB 11.23.58 – To face present difficulties, gain strength by remembering past realizations

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Thank you Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.58 so here Lord Krishna who is instructing Uddhava in this Uddhavita and he has told this song of the Avanthi Brahmana is now giving conclusion in the last few verses so here surprisingly after the great spiritual realization we don’t see necessarily a happy ending immediately literal sense of happy ending so the Avanthi Brahmana has realized that the mind is the cause of suffering and the way to go beyond the mind is by being fixed firmly in the devotional service of the Lord so after he gets this realization what happens nirvidhya nashtu dravine gataklamaha nashtu dravine this Brahmana was suffering because of having lost his wealth but nirvidhya by contemplation he became detached and by that detachment his moroseness which had come because of the loss of the wealth that moroseness went away gataklamaha and then he started travelling around because he was sanyasi he decided he didn’t want to become attached to anything any one place so he started travelling pravrajyagam paritamantam so he was travelling here and there in different ways like sanyasi and when he was travelling was he respected or great sanyasi has come he was not like a normal sanyasi he was avadhoot people could not understand who he was and nirakrato asadbher asadbher means uncivilized people nirakrato they insulted him apisva dharmaat and even then he remained fixed in his dharma his dharma as a renunciate was to stay renounced from the world and stay fixed in the lord and he remained fixed in that akampito munirahagatha akampito he did not swerve he did not tremble he did not flinch and shake from his prescribed duties of sanyasi what are the prescribed duties the previous one we described that he remained fixed in the devotional service of lord mukunda and amumahagatham whenever he faced any insults he contemplated the song sang the song and thereby he again restituted himself in transcendence so sometimes we get by krishna’s mercy some very profound realizations which seem as if they will be life changing and those realizations when we get them we are fortunate by krishna’s mercy and they make us feel enlumened enriched and forward thrilled but after sometime the thrill just passes and we feel what has happened i thought i had my spiritual advancement but now life seems to have come back to normal same same temptations i have to keep facing so was that all the realization that i got was it false no it was not false but that is a glimpse and by what we have to do is when we are not having that glimpse of spiritual highs then we have to recollect it recollect it meditate on it contemplate the realizations that we were getting at that time that we had got at that time and draw strength from that even if we don’t have those realizations at this moment but we can draw strength by the memory of those realizations just like in material life when people face great difficulties suppose somebody is a tennis champion and then that person has become injured and is now facing a very stiff and demanding exercise and medical routine regimen for recovery the person has a memory maybe has a memory of when i was a tennis champion and looks at the picture and then gains strength that memory reminds yes i was there on the top and i can get there at the top again i just have to work hard now so that memory stimulates and triggers and activates the determination in the tennis player same way our spiritual memories of the devotional highs devotional high means the feeling of devotional exhilaration and jubilation that we felt whenever we got realizations those can activate and energize and trigger us if we remember then contemplate then cherish them so the avanti brahmana again faced sufferings he was he was incited by people not that just because he got the realization internally it is not that automatically he got an aggression externally from the world as a great realized soul no there are people who continue to disrespect him and what did he do he did not try to shout his status you do not know who i am how dare you offend me like this you are committing a brahmana he didn’t speak anything like that he turned into words muah gatha munir maha gatha he again revisited and refreshed his realization by again singing the song and in this way he raised himself above that material level to the transcendental level and in this way he remained transcendental so similarly we can’t expect that things will be alright for us just because we have got some glimpses of spiritual highs things in material level will go wrong and at that time we have to again raise ourselves to higher level by practicing spiritual life and by when our mind wanders when we are trying to chant seriously then by remembering whenever our japa, our kirtan has taken us to spiritual high we can get the determination to persevere and gradually become purified so that that spiritual high which is occasional will eventually become perennial