SB 5.11.6 – To break free from the mind’s vicious embrace, embrace Krishna’s lotus feet manifesting as his holy names
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as is easily possible through the holy name.
venakti aalingamaya rachitantaratma svadehinam samsmati chatrakootaha dukkham sukham These are the results of yathiriktham yathivram, yathiriktham is the illusion, thivram is intense, so the intense illusion created by the mind results in the dualities of happiness and distress at the material level, actually these illusions, karno, pappannam, phalama, venakti, these situations come upon us in due course of time as the reactions to our actions, but in the process, aalingamaya rachitantaratma, aalingam means embraces, the mind embraces the soul, here the embrace is not out of love, the embrace is out of the desire to control and dominate and manipulate, aalingamaya rachitantaratma, maya rachita, the mind is actually made a product of illusory energy, it is essentially made of matter, and it is influenced, even programmed and slaved to three modes of material nature, maya rachitantaratma, antaratma is usually referred to the mind, and svadehinam samsmati chatrakootaha, the living entity is sent into svadehinam samsmati chatrakootaha, where the deception of the mind, the living entity continues on in the cycle of birth and death, so actually the mind is constantly doing its chatter, enjoy this, that is so great, that is so horrible, avoid it, get rid of it, and because of this chatter, because of the way the mind interprets certain things as rukha and certain things as dukha, aid keeps us from moving on a steady track towards Krishna, actually the mind prevents us from moving on a steady track in any way, and even in material life, materialistic people are swayed by their minds, swayed, shaken, shattered by their minds, and that happens to us in our spiritual life also, if we are not actually taking shelter of Krishna while practicing the spiritual life, so the mind has us as its puppet right now, and by embracing us, the point that it made is that the mind appears to be our well-wisher, appears to be our lover, appears to be our benefactor, butkootaha, aalingya, it embraces, butkootaha, it is deceptive, it is going to deceive us, it doesn’t have our best interests at heart, so when we understand that the mind is actually going to lead me to distraction and destruction eventually, then we increase our attention, attention not just to the mind’s content and movement, but also to the object of thought that can free us from the clutches of the mind, only when we embrace Krishna, aalingya Krishna, then the mind loses its grip on us, all other objects, if we think about them, they become a part of the illusion through which the mind holds on to us, because Krishna alone has the capacity to free us from the mind’s illusion, and that’s why fixing the mind on Krishna steadily and determinately is vital, if we want to break free from the mind’s vicious embrace, so the more we embrace Krishna’s lotus feet manifesting as his holy name, the more the mind’s vicious embrace loses its grip on us, and the more we become free to think positively, devotionally and productively. Thank you.