SB 8.3.25 – Please rescue me from the ignorance that makes me mistake danger to be safety

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and our other contemplation on his extraordinary position, personality, power and love.
Thank you. Jiji Vishay Naham Iha Muya Kim. Jiji Vishay’s desire to live.
Iha or Ahuya, in this world, in this life or in the next life. I do not wish to live either in this life or after being delivered in a better material life, in material existence. Kim? After all, what is the value of such an existence? Antar bahis chaavrte bhya yonya.
That actually avrata is covered. So I am covered over internally and externally. Yonya, the species, as a human being, sorry as an elephant I am covered and if I get in some other body, there also I will be covered.
Ikshami, what do I desire? Kaalena yasya vipalavas. Vipalava is destruction. Kaalena yasya vipalavas means that which is not destroyed by time.
Tasyatma loka vranasya mokshanam. So tasya, that which is not, that covering which is not destroyed by time, which covers one so that one cannot pursue self-realization. Atma loka vranasya.
So mokshanam, please remove the covering that prevents me from seeing the soul, from understanding my spiritual identity. So this is a dramatically different prayer from what Gajendra has offered till now. Till now, he has been talking about how the Lord is transcendental and how the Lord is still there in the heart of everyone and how the difference between how pure devotees pray for nothing material whereas others pray for something material and the Lord grants that also to them because the Lord is so merciful.
But as he is praying through that prayerful contemplation on the Lord, his own devotional knowledge and his spiritual consciousness are rising deeper and stronger within them and they manifest themselves as this extraordinary prayer. So he is praying, my dear Lord, what is the use of living again in material existence? Yes, initially I prayed to you that please liberate me from the jaws of this crocodile. But now after glorifying you, my spiritual memory has been revived and now I understand that actually I need to be rescued not just from the dangerous situation that I am in now but also from the safe situation that I was in earlier because that safety is also a form of danger.
When we think that we are safe in material world surrounded by our friends and family members with our position and power, that safety is a great danger because that safety makes us forget Krishna and that safety makes us forget our spiritual identity and that sends us, propels us on the path to material existence, continuation cycle of birth and death. That is the greatest danger in this material world for the soul. So my dear Lord, please protect me from this whole business of material existence.
I don’t want to live in safety and prosperity in material existence after being rescued from this danger because that safety and prosperity is also illusion which perpetuates my stain that endures material existence. Therefore, this does not mean that it should completely end my existence or annihilate my existence but saying annihilate my ignorance. So please remove my ignorance which makes me forget my true identity because as long as I am ignorant, no matter what I do, it will all be ultimately in the realm of illusion.
It will continue a bondage. So initially when we start praying to Krishna and we are troubled by some problems in our life, we may chant fervently begging to Krishna, please release me from this problem and later on we understand that actually even the problem-free situation is also a problem because even then in problem-free situation, we develop the conception that I can be happy separate from Krishna. Therefore, what we need is not a problem-free situation but an illusion-free situation and that comes only by the practice of devotional service.
So therefore, please engage me in devotional service. Please remove the ignorance that makes me forget you my dear Lord. That is the prayer that we should