SB 7.9.39 – Krishna alone can help us check the misdirected energy of the mind

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Thank you So here Prahlad Maharaj is now moving on to the eternal enemy in material existence who is constantly provoking us towards Adharma and that is the mind so he has talked about various demons who trouble us throughout the beginning of creation, throughout the history of creation. He started with the demon of ignorance from which Brahmaji was rescued by the Lord’s appearance then he talked about Madhukaitabh and various demons and the various incarnations that rescued people from those demons Loka Anvibhavayati that was in the previous verse and now he is talking about actually all of us, we may be living at times when there are no physical demons but there is a demon of the mind who is always there to trouble us and what does the mind do? He is saying My dear Lord, you have performed so many wonderful pastimes and these pastimes if we absorb ourselves in them we can all become free from misery free from anxiety You are Vikunthanatha You are the Lord of that abode which is free from all anxiety but unfortunately so the mind doesn’t find these pastimes palatable why? because the mind is asadhu it actually is dishonest, Prabhupada translates this it has non-saintly materialistic tendencies and those tendencies are dhritadushtam because of our past activities dhritadushtam, the mind has become wicked has become polluted and it is not just polluted, it is actually thivram thivram refers to intense in this context it refers to it has such a force such a velocity that is difficult to control Upadesha Amrit uses the word vega vega means speed, it means when the desires come up they come with such speed such momentum such velocity and ferocity that they are almost impossible to control so instead of being krishnathur, eager for Krishna this materialistic mind is kamathur it is always constantly looking for hungering, craving, despairing for opportunities for sense gratification and naturally whenever we seek sense gratification because that is external to us because that is not in our control so we go through a variety of emotions all of which are centered on Artham we are basically distressed because we want and we don’t get so on the few occasions when we get there is harsha, on the many occasions when we don’t get there is shoka and even when we get we are fearful that is bhaya, that we will lose it so when the mind is on such a roller coaster of emotions how can it be fixed on Krishna so my dear lord I am so fallen how can I absorb myself in how can that become my object of absorption my desired destination so here Prahlad Maharaj is taking the role of a conditioned soul and is telling us that we need to recognize that our mind is our greatest enemy, our mind is what prevents us from absorbing ourselves in Krishna katha, in Krishna naam in Krishna seva so through this expression of explanation of mourning of lamentation at the inability to control the mind Prahlad Maharaj is indirectly asking the lord for help just as in the past you saved your devotees from demons, please save me from the demon of the mind and before we can actually wholeheartedly pray to the lord for being saved from the mind, we need to recognize how dangerous an enemy the mind is and prayers like this prayer by Prahlad Maharaj help us to realize how the mind is so dangerous it will constantly keep us in misery unless we beg for the intervention of the lord who will by his magical mercy bring our mind under control and help us to fix it on him so we need to fix our mind in Krishna to stay to keep it under control but to fix the mind in Krishna we need to have some control on the mind and for that also we need Krishna’s help so this is how thoroughly we are dependent on Krishna for our even to survive in spiritual life, what to speak of thrive by going closer to him thank you