SB 8.3.3 Krishna being immanent and transcendent is eminently capable of helping us
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thank you yasmiridam yatasthidam ye nidam yedam svayam yo smarth parath smarthya parath tam prapadye svayam so here Gajendra is continuing his prayers to the supreme lord and he is explaining why he is taking shelter of that lord by glorifying the transcendence of that lord to everything and at the same time his pervasion of everything the lord is simultaneously far away and simultaneously extremely close so because he is extremely close he can be reached immediately and he will reach immediately and because he is far away he is unaffected by any of the dangers that are there so he is not threatened by anything worldly anything material and therefore he is capable of coming to our rescue he is never in trouble due to anything material and therefore he is capable of helping those who are in trouble so his transcendence makes him unaffected by the worldly troubles and his eminence makes him capable of appearing immediately to resolve our troubles so yasmin idam yathas chaidam this is actually a very philosophical verse but the principle is profoundly devotional actually this universe rests in you my dear lord you are the platform so Vishwanath Chaturthi Thakur gives the example and this is a standard example from the acharyas that a pot if we have the pot is an expansion of the earth the pot is made of the earth the pot rests on the earth the pot is made with a wheel which is also made of earth the pot is fashioned by a potter whose hands and whose body is also made of earth so the earth is in that sense the everything for the pot similarly the lord is everything yasmin idam the world, this universe is resting on him yathas chaidam it is coming from him yenidam yadam swayam by him himself it is pervaded so it has come from him it is resting in him and it is pervaded by him at the same time yo asmat parasmat cheparas but he is at the same time beyond all this he has his own self existence that makes him ever access that makes him or that enables him to relish love in his own transcendental abode far away from the troubles of this world so by philosophically remembering how the lord is around him he calls out to that lord and by remembering how he is far away he contemplates how that lord is actually transcendental, unaffected by situation and therefore capable of helping is unaffected in the sense that he is not threatened he is not troubled so he can come immediately to help and in this way to the philosophical mode of glorification Gajendra is expressing his devotion his call for help so when we chant Hare Krishna sometimes we may think that Krishna is very far away in the spiritual world does he hear our chanting? actually yes Krishna is performing his pastimes in the spiritual world but he is he is right within us in our own heart and he is hearing the chanting so yasminidham yathas chetam we are resting on the earth the earth is Krishna’s energy yathas chetam we are Krishna’s energy we are Krishna’s spiritual energy our mouth and our tongue is Krishna’s spiritual energy so our capacity to chant is coming from him yenedam yensoyam he is pervading everywhere as the super soul he is manifesting himself as the holy name and yosmat parasmat chaparas he is at the same time transcendental he is golokai repre madana that holy name is actually the love treasure of the spiritual world and that remains the love treasure of the spiritual world while manifesting in this world also to that wonderful holy name tam prapadye soyam duvam I offer my obeisances to that self-sufficient supreme lord this is a very inspiring word for us to contemplate on Krishna while chanting his holy names