SB 7.9.34 Accepting the futility of searching with the senses starts of our real search

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thank you 7.9.34 so now the description of the process of creation is being described here and tatsambhava from that gigantic lotus, the kavir that is brahmaji was born and he started looking everywhere where have i come from, where is my source he started searching all around but he could not find him so for 100 years he searched so once the seed has fructified then the beeja cannot be seen so the lord is the source of the universe, the lord is the creator of the universe but the lord has arranged the world in such a way that it is it is complete in itself in itself it doesn’t need the lord’s constant visible intervention to function the lord’s supervision is always there but the lord has arranged the world in such a way that it does not require his visible intervention constantly so the beginning of creation illustrates an essential truth about creation that the search for the absolute truth with our own senses is doomed to frustration brahmaji tried to search for the absolute truth with his own eyes he looked all around and then he went up and down the lotus but couldn’t find anything anywhere and finally he decided that he would just go ahead and do the needful that is he did the meditation in the lord eventually so that was because the lord gave him the instruction and then alone he became a layman so like that sometimes we also become bewildered we are faced with a situation that we can’t comprehend and we may not physically wander round and round but we wander around and round mentally thinking what should i do should i try this should i try that and we just come to no conclusion at such times if we just calm ourselves down sit still not just physically but also mentally and then try to connect with Krishna then we can get guidance from Krishna and learn to see things more clearly by which we will know what is the best way to move ahead in the particular situation that we find ourselves in so the example of brahmaji illustrates that our own sense perception when confronted with problematic situations will let us down and if we don’t want to be let down then we have to be ready to become submissive to Krishna otherwise we will be lost that often happens especially to us during chanting because during chanting we feel as if we are not doing anything practical we don’t connect with Krishna wholeheartedly because we are not chanting attentively and because we are not doing anything physically, materially, practically so that way also we feel frustrated and this way both ways we feel ourselves lost so that’s why if we can’t remember that just our searching around with the eyes alone is not going to give the solution so at the time of chanting if you just stop that searching around with the eyes and with the mind and just focus on connecting with Krishna then we will find that solutions will emerge that we would never have been able to think of by our own minds and those solutions will take us to deeper levels of understanding and higher levels of accomplishment in the service of Krishna and it all begins with recognizing the finiteness and the fallibility of our intelligence and acknowledging the necessity to depend on Krishna’s wisdom and guidance thank you