SB 8.3.20 Give yourself the chance to relish the anand-samudra

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thank you Krishna Bhagavatam 8 320 Gajendra is praying over here that the pure devotees do not ask for anything because they are absorbed in relishing your glories in the previous verse Gajendra has said that you oh lord are so merciful so exalted that if a person approaches you for dharma, artha, kama you fulfill that desire and sometimes you are such your mercy is so unlimited that you even grant liberation to such a person give a spiritual body to such a person so although the lord is so merciful the devotees do not go to the lord to extract favors from him those who are one pointed they do not ask for any from him any wealth that is not their desire those who surrender to the lord the extraordinary character of the lord and also supremely auspicious so he is describing two characteristics wonderful and we could say fruitful in the sense that it bears a supremely auspicious fruit so this is the character of the lord so so they sing the glories of the lord, they recite the glories of the lord and in this way ananda samudra magna so they become magna they become merged so the word merger sometimes devotees get paranoid about it we generally associate the word merge with impersonalists but actually there is no problem with merging if that merging is into happiness it is not a dissolving of existence but a dissolving of independent awareness because of being consumed by a profound joy so just like if cricket fans are there and they watch they get engrossed in a match then they become magna so here Vijendra is describing that the happiness of glorifying the lord is ananda samudra so it is not a losing of one’s existence or merging of one’s existence itself, you remain two but it’s a merging it’s absorption, engrossment of one’s awareness ananda samudra magna aha because the pure devotees are getting such oceanic happiness in glorifying the lord that they feel that there is no need for anything else to ask from him they are simply satisfied in relishing this in fact they feel that there is so much that we can’t relish it, it’s an ocean and we can’t drink the ocean, we can’t even explore the ocean, we will just keep diving into it exploring it, swimming it and relishing it to our best capacity for all time to come so this is the life of love in service to Krishna where practicing pure devotion is not an austerity oh I should not ask anything material I want those things but somehow it’s against the principles of pure devotion so I won’t ask it no, life of love is that everything else is a distraction there is an ocean of happiness to be relished over here and everything material that I think about will distract me from relishing this ocean, so why should I let self be distracted so with such a positive attitude towards pure devotion one can advance towards it much more easily, Gajendra is telling that I am in trouble, I am asking you for this, I am sorry about that but I understand pure devotees relish your glory so much but they don’t ask for anything and now that I am glorifying you, I also get a little glimpse of that supreme glory of yours so when we especially are chanting and praying to Krishna at that time although we may not have this experience right now, sometimes we feel that oh how long do I have to chant to get on with other things but if you remember that through chanting we are connecting with Krishna and in glorifying Krishna there is ananda samudra magna there is the opportunity to delight in the ocean of happiness then just this meditation can give us the impetus to put aside other desires kanchanartham vanchita put aside other desires and at least for the time of chanting and give ourselves a chance to delight in the ocean of happiness