SB 7.9.19 Let the apparent protectors not distract me from the actual protector

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bondage so this is one of the most poignant verses which is frequently quoted by actually prabhupada the verse says how actually the protectors of this world are only apparent protectors you alone are the actual protector so normally when a person is sick the person will think that i need medicines and doctors to get cured a person is drowning the person thinks that i need a boat to get cured and a person and a child is in danger the child thinks my parents are there to take care they will protect me now in a sense we have to act at the material level for protection but the material protectors are not the ultimate protectors because sometimes the best medicines and best doctors a person may die and not just me everyone will eventually have to die even if they had access to the best medicines and the best doctors similarly in this world even if a person is the best boat like the people were in Titanic still Titanic sank and people died similarly even if the parents are responsible and competent and protective still sometimes children die or they get kidnapped they get hurt they get deceased so actually speaking the ultimate protector is Krishna and as sadhakas who live in the material world where everybody is working for security only at the material level we also tend to put a unnecessary and excessive premium on material security and we work for protection at the material level too much and that is why we often suffer from anxiety anxiety that distracts us from our devotion to Krishna so there is a time in our life to make arrangements for material security but there is also a time to let go of those arrangements for material security and to focus on Krishna alone because even with the best material security things are not going to work out we have to die and continue our material existence so especially with the time when we are trying to exclusively focus on Krishna through prayer through meditation through chanting at that time I just need to say yes at this time I know that even the apparent protectors the material protectors they will not be able to protect without your sanction if you do not give your sanction if you do not allow then these will not protect therefore my dear lord I have made my arrangements at the material level but now I pray for your mercy your guidance your intervention I pray to understand your will and do your will and when we pray thus whether the protection happens at the material level or not we will be protected not only protected but also elevated at the spiritual level because we have expressed our faith in Krishna we have chosen to put faith in Krishna and by that choice and expression we have climbed higher on the ladder to transcendence so this is a prayer for freedom from obsession with material protection which is only apparent and call for focus on spiritual protection which is the actual protection and whenever we find ourselves becoming unduly anxious nowadays people have anxiety disorders psychologists even call the current age as the age of anxiety epidemic so when we start suffering from anxieties and fears and worries excessively at that time philosophically meditating on how actually Krishna is the ultimate protector and he can work in miraculous ways that can calm our mind down and when we expose and repose our faith in Krishna we find out the true nature of our anxiety some of them are just imaginary and nothing that we can or need to do about them and there are others for which we can do something practically and we will do it practically much better when we have calmed our mind and fixed our faith in Krishna so even our attempts for material protection will work better when we have first attempted spiritual protection by connecting with Krishna and this way Krishna will offer us all round protection and even if the material protection doesn’t work the spiritual protection will not only protect but will also elevate us