SB 5.11.11 – Don’t be caught in the million misconceptions of the mind, focus in meditation on the One who is beyond them all

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Srimad Bhagavatam 5.11.11 Here the key words are and actually the transformations of the mind become hundreds, thousands and crores, millions. In the American nomenclature that is adopted by BBT there is no word crores so koti is translated here as millions. Now there are material causes for these varieties of mental conceptions.
We know different people think differently, like different things and have different emotions relatively speaking. Of course all these are within the realm of matter but still there are so many different hobbies that people have, so many different things that different people like. So all these have certain material causes, dravya, what kind of objects they are exposed to, what their swabhava is from their previous lives, what their asheya culture is, karma, what their karmic reactions are, what is the time in which they are acting.
So all these produce different mental conceptions which can vary into millions of varieties but ultimately that these all material factors which shape the mind’s conceptions do not act independently they are acting under the supervision of the supreme lord can refer either to the soul or to the super soul both are knowers of the kshetra that is the body here they are referring to the governing cause of the various conceptions of the mind and that is the super soul so gradually here Jada Bharat is shifting the focus of the discussion from just matter and mind to the supreme lord. So the mind acquires various conceptions and trying to analyze how a specific conception came about may not always be productive in modern psychology there is a whole field called psychoanalysis which tries to analyze why people have certain fears why people have certain desires and that may be of some help but ultimately one understands that the material factors can interact in various ways to produce multifarious conceptions but they are all acting ultimately under the supreme lord’s jurisdiction and if we take shelter of that supreme lord then he can bring about a check to those conceptions as Krishna says in mam maya duratya mam eva ye prapadyante maya me tam tarantite if you surrender unto me then I will check the force of material energy from imprisoning you so there is a time for analysis and introspection and meditation is a time for primary connection so if we go too much into an analytical mode at the time of meditation then our focus shifts from the meditation and it returns back to material elements which we are analyzing so during the time of meditation we focus primarily on connection with Krishna and that connection will give us direction for meditation for introspection and analysis at other times and it will make things clearer but during the time of meditation we know that our various conceptions have come ultimately from Krishna so rather than focusing on the specific causes of the conceptions we focus on the generic cause that ultimately everything is under the control of Krishna and we seek his help so meditation is not the time to become over analytical about specifics it is the time for focusing on a prayerful connection rooted through divine sound and that connection will clarify and purify our perceptions and conceptions and enable us to think clearly and act effectively in the rest of our time and the rest of our life Thank you