SB 7.9.31 By meditating how everything belongs to Krishna we can unburden ourselves of the illusion of being the protector and focus on offering our heart to Krishna

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thank you so sashmad bhagavatam 7.9.31 tvamvaidam sadasadheeshya bhavam sthato anyo mayayadatma parabuddhiriyam ya partha yad yasyajanmanidhanam sthitrikshanam cha tadvaita devavasukala vadasthitarvo so he is telling that this entire cosmic creation is caused by you sadasadheeshya bhavam sthato anyo and it is the effect of your energy and he is talking about the non-achintya bheda bheda relationship although in a sense the cosmos is you but you are also distinct from you and then when the conditioned soul thinks in terms of this is mine and this is yours it’s an illusion because ultimately it’s not mine or yours for us material for us tiny jivas because everything is krishna’s and he gives the example that as to the seed gives rise to the tree similarly the lord is bhi jimao vayam as bhagavad gita says from which the whole creation manifests so here lord maharaj is talking about spiritual solution to material conflicts so the material conflicts arise because of the mentality of possessiveness I and mine and it is that mentality that is uprooted and eliminated by the practice of authentic spirituality to the extent that we understand that nothing is ours that everything belongs to the lord and we are meant to take only that which is our quota and not enroach upon the quota of others so especially during the time when we are directly connecting with the lord through prayer, through meditation through chanting it is important to keep this in mind at a functional level while we are doing our prescribed duties it may be difficult to keep this in mind because we have to act practically and we have to take care of our concerns and as we are devotees to some extent our concerns are also concerns for serving krishna or concerns for protecting our material situation so that we can serve krishna so we may not be able to really remember at all times that everything belongs to krishna but at least at the time of our exclusive connection with krishna through chanting, through prayer through worship at that time we can remember actually everything belongs to krishna and if krishna wants to give something to me, he can give me much more than what I need and if he wants to take something away from me I will never be able to protect it so at this point let me just focus on offering my heart to krishna and let me surrender to krishna’s will right now so contemplating on how actually everything is krishna’s frees us from the anxiety of trying to protect things that are only temporarily under our care so bhakta sanansvi thakur would say that the burden of being the enjoyer of the material world becomes removed when we surrender to lord hari so at least at the time when we are trying to exclusively focus on remembering and serving krishna we can relieve ourselves of this burden, no doubt the anxiety that we have can be because of our sense of responsibility and we cannot give up our responsibilities but there are times there are times for everything and the time for exclusive meditation is the time for taking up the responsibility of connecting with krishna through our heart and not for taking care of the things of the world in his service so in this way by contemplating that everything is krishna’s we can focus on not bothering to take care of worldly things but to try to offer the best that we can to krishna of our consciousness we don’t have to offer the world to krishna or even lot of worldly things to krishna to please him all that we need to offer is our consciousness and because our consciousness is caught in so many worldly things so one way of offering our consciousness is through offering those worldly things but a far more important way in fact the most important way to connect with krishna is to offer our consciousness and our prayer time our chanting time is the time when we can directly offer our consciousness to krishna and that is the opportunity which we can fully tap when we meditate on how krishna is the owner of everything including even our own heart so let us offer to him that which is his