SB 8.3.10 Praying for revelation is far better than playing with speculation

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So, here it is described as Gajendra continues his prayers he mentions that my dear lord you are present in the heart of all living beings Parmatmane and you are the Sakshi you are the witness from over there and you are Atma Pradeepaya Atma Pradeepaya means you are self effulgent just like the sun doesn’t need any other light you don’t need any light from anyone else in fact the sun not only doesn’t give any light from anyone else the sun gives light to everyone else similarly you give light to all living beings you give the light of wisdom you give enlightenment to all living beings So, in the context of this verse is that in the previous mantras in the previous prayers Gajendra has said that actually Nama Aashchare Karmane that what you do is astonishing and it is extremely difficult for anyone to understand how though you are transcendental you manifest in the material world how although you have no form still you have innumerable forms Arupaya, Urupaya so all this is inconceivable but only you can give understanding so you are present in the super soul and to those whom you give understanding by your mercy they can become advanced in their understanding and he describes that Namo Kiram Viduraya Manaso Cheta Samuti that actually you are beyond the power of speech to describe and you are even beyond the power of the mind to conceive and even for the consciousness in its normal stage of material consciousness it is impossible to pursue the supreme lord so we are thus always dependent on the revelation by our speculation by our intellectual efforts moving upwards we may understand some fragments of scripture but we can never understand scripture fully because scripture is the word of god and the word of god is reflecting his infinite wisdom and his infinite wisdom naturally is concomitant with it comes with his supreme position so it is natural that we won’t be able to understand him on our own and that is accepting that enables us to become submissive and once we are submissive we learn to use our intelligence in another way submission doesn’t mean abandoning our intelligence or rejecting our intelligence it simply means using our intelligence in a different way just like in every field we accept axioms and then we move forward based on the acceptance of those axioms similarly we accept the statements of Krishna at least on a tentative basis with some preliminary faith and start applying them in our lives and the more we apply them just like when we apply a doctor’s prescription and find our health becoming better similarly when we apply the principles of Krishna consciousness the remembrance of Krishna in a way that is emotionally resonant with our psychophysical nature then that especially moves our heart so ultimately love for Krishna doesn’t depend on our psychophysical nature but when we are in the conditioned stage it may get affected and it is only because of our conditionings that conditioning which are placed situated in our psychophysical nature in our body and our mind that we are unable to namo girame niraya that the Lord remains beyond our perception and our description and our visualization also so in this way by recognizing that we depend on Krishna’s revelation we can pray with a intensity and a fervency that would be impossible if we thought that we ourselves are good enough that we are self-situated well enough and that if we just keep controlling ourselves nicely enough we will attain Krishna we will attain full understanding of the clearer understanding of spiritual truth actually the real understanding the best understanding will come by Krishna’s grace descending downwards not our own speculations moving upwards so Gajendra is telling here that I don’t know my dear Lord why I am entrapped by this crocodile and immediately in the context of this circumstance I don’t know what I should do should I keep fighting or should I give up but then when it is understood that he is surrendering to the Lord and in shelter of the Lord at that time by that surrender he will understand the plan of the Lord and he will be able to play a plan in that play his part in that plan so the obstacles when we can’t make sense out of the obstacles we should make sense of them by understanding that they are a part of the Lord’s plan and the Lord’s plan being infinite his plan may not always make sense to us but by praying to the Lord for the intelligence of how to serve in that situation we will feel a sense of release from the burden of the problem and we will be able to get Krishna’s guidance thereby actually solving the problem so this meditation is far more productive than chanting than actually trying to simply solve the problem while also chanting the holy names thank you