SB 8.3.6 Let us not mistake our ignorance of meaning to be the absence of meaning

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shrimad bhagavatam 836 so Gajendra is now stating how the supreme lord is incomprehensible to the finite intellect so he said that my dear lord beyond all the destructibility of this world is your supreme indestructible position beyond all the darkness of this world is your supreme unchanging undiminishing illumination that’s what he has focused on in the previous verses now he is focusing on the point that from that transcendental position you orchestrate this world and what happens in this world and why it happens is something that we finite beings cannot understand at least not without your help and he is saying that even the great beings deva rishaya even the gods and the rishis even they can’t understand namme vidho surgana prabhamam namah rishya, the bhagavad gita also says the same thing in 10.2 now jantu punah gaurati gantumeeritum so jantu refers to just ordinary living being like myself how can i understand, how can i express and then yatha nattasya kathibhir vicheshtho that just as when a person is dancing vishnachikadhapur gives a very interesting elaboration on this verse he says that when a person is performing a dance like bharatanatyam now the dance is based on a particular pastime say krishna stealing butter now one who knows that pastime and sees that the pastime is being depicted through this dance can relish the dance and can comprehend the dance much better one who doesn’t know what is the original pastime being depicted just see some hands being moved, legs being moved, face is having certain expressions and doesn’t understand it so that means just seeing the dance alone is not enough, one has to see the dance with a prior knowledge of what is being depicted similarly he says my dear lord when we look at this world ultimately this world is your pastime everything that happens in this world is by your energy your ultimate will because it is not the pastime in the sense that you want the suffering that is there in this world but it is a pastime in the sense that the material energy also ultimately acts for your fulfilling your plan and the essence of pastime is that it’s a part of your plan so because we don’t know what your plan is, we just see the motions of material nature and we get bewildered by that so your movements my dear lord are very difficult to understand but I nonetheless have faith that you are my well-wisher, you are my benefactor and you therefore my dear lord and you therefore become my protector this is why this particular crocodile has attacked me and what purpose is to be served by this I do not know but just as the dance is not purposeless or meaningless similarly nothing that happens in this world is purposeless or meaningless the purpose and meaning are known to you and my dear lord I seek your illumination your guidance so that I may know it to some extent by which I will be able to cooperate with you, do what is your will, so please oh lord protect me so later on we will see the protection he is asking for is not just in terms of physical protection but also spiritual, give me understanding by which I can live for you my dear lord so often troubling circumstances distract us in chanting and remembering that that actually the lord is acting behind the bewildering moments of material energy can help us realize the relevance of chanting to our problems through chanting we are praying for the vision to see the purpose and the meaning behind the problems and the way we should best cooperate with the lord’s purpose and understand his meaning thank you