SB 4.9.14 – Connecting the object of our hearing with the object of our meditation enriches our appreciation

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śrīmad-bhāgavatam 4.9.14 śrīmad-bhāgavatam 4.9.14 Yajur Mahārāja is now contemplating on his roots, not just his roots, the root of all of existence, and he is amazed, fascinated, thrilled to think that that lord who exists originally and eternally, who was there before all of creation became manifested, that lord has now become manifested in front of him, that lord is now standing before him and just as we hear about some famous sports star, who has done all kind of extraordinary things and then suddenly we meet that person and we feel thrilled, so that kind of thrill is just a dim, tiny reflection of the kind of thrill that Dhruv Mahārāja is experiencing because he has heard about the supreme lord from his mother as well as from the other seers, but especially his mother and she has described how he is the source of even lord Brahmā and he is remembering that and the lord whom he had set out to see, about whom he had heard from his childhood is now in front of him and kalpānta etadakhilam jathare nagrihinan, so he is saying at the end of a kalpa, all this creation, jathare nagrihinan, you take it all inside of yourself my lord, so at that time you lie on the lap of that anantaśeśe, anantaśakas, tadamke, on his lap and he is the only companion, all of existence has gone back inside you and again after the due time has passed, then yannābhisindhu rūha kāñcana loka padma, so he says that your navel is so magnificent that it is like an ocean, just as a lotus needs some water for it to grow, so you may think that it grows in a lake, there is some water in that it grows, but your navel is so vast, so magnificent that it is like an ocean, yannābhisindhu rūha kāñcana loka padma, so at that time from your navel padma appears and that padma is the original primeval lotus and in the garbha of that lotus, in the centre, the whorl of that lotus, what happens? Bhūmān, so Bhūmān is a common Vedic name, it can refer to various people, here it refers to Brahmāji, so Bhūmān appears, so that Lord who is the only existence at the end of creation, into whom all of existence enters and then from whom Brahmāji is born and all of creation unfolds after that, that Lord is in front of me and bhagvate pranato smitasamayi, I offer my obeisances to that Lord, so actually just as Dhruva Mahārāja is seeing the Lord directly, when we are practicing meditation, we have the opportunity to interact with the Lord similarly and although we may not be seeing Him, still we have the opportunity to experience Him and contemplating on the position of the Lord enhances our appreciation for His presence and inspires us to dive deeper, to concentrate more and relish thereby more His all-attractive, supremely sweet, ultimately loving presence, so by not rushing towards the result, Dhruva Mahārāja is not asking here for anything, but he is simply contemplating on the Lord, so when we are chanting, we have to switch off the mode of trying to get things done and we have to focus on the mode of contemplation and connection through contemplation, so when we do that, for doing that, hearing the glories of the Lord and then connecting what we have heard with what we are doing, remembering that the Lord about whom I have heard so much in the scriptures is the Lord who is manifesting as the Holy Name that enables us to fix the mind more seriously, more determinately and by that we can relish the Holy Name more, so in this way, connecting our study with the object of our meditation deepens our devotional experience and thereby gives us greater result of purification, elevation and satisfaction.