The Lord is the destroyer of the distress of the distressed

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Arthana for those who are distressed the lord is the destroyer of their distress for those who are fearful he removes the fear for those who are envious he is the ultimate punisher in the form of Kaala, the gesticizing lord of Kaala is considered to be the strongest punisher because in this world people can evade the different kinds of punishments evade if they are influential enough if they have good enough contacts they may evade certain punishments but they cannot evade the punishment of Kaala and to that lord Ramachandra I offer obeisances so here the essential mood is one of recognizing that we all have to deal with our issues and we cannot wish away the problems that we are facing in our life we can only turn towards the lord and hope for his mercy and by his mercy deal with the problems properly without his mercy even if we try our best we cannot deal with the problems in a long-term efficacious way because the way to deal with problem is not just to deal with the problems but to deal with the underlying mentality the mentality of being separate from god that is the cause of all problems the lord is the remover is the destroyer of the distress of the distressed the lord is the destroyer of the distress of the distressed so now at one level people approach god because they suffer from specific distresses so for example someone may suffer from say some poor health or some relationship issues somebody not have a job these are various kinds of distresses that people may suffer people suffer from in this life and krishna also says in 7.16 the bhagavad-gita that artha the distressed are one category of people who come to him who approach him now those who approach him because of distress what happens to them is their distress removed sometimes it may be removed immediately sometimes it may be removed in due course of time but the important point is that by krishna’s mercy anyone who approaches him will get a higher shelter will get an experience of inner strength that will enable one to effectively cope with if not deal with that distress whenever we face a problem the effect that the problem has on us is often far bigger than the problem itself it means that sometimes if the problem induces a panic attack on us then that panic attack the response we make under the influence of the panic is far greater than whatever be the specific issue that we are dealing with under the influence of panic people speak and do things by which they often make a problem bigger than they need to be so krishna this prayer is specifically to lord ram for obeisances to lord ram they specifically said here that the distress is the remover of their distress for those who are fearful he removes their fear so let’s worship krishna your mind will become free from you will become free from misery free from the misery specifically the misery of fear of fear so fear and distress are not just perceptions within my mind yes they may be perception and sometimes they may become bigger than what they actually are externally but still often problems originate in problematic situations externally and sometimes those problematic situations are in the form of troublesome people so krishna said so here it is said for those who are abuse the lord is the ultimate chastising rod he will ensure that they get their due that they get the consequence of whatever they are trying to do now in life so whenever we feel distressed in life we need to know that our business is not to counter whoever is trying to create problem for us yes sometimes for our service sake sometimes for our position sake the position by which we can render service we may need to take some practical vision measures to counter that person and whatever is required for that we can we should do but we should not make it let our mentality become a vindictive mentality the lord is the person who will punish eventually there is a law of karma which is supervised by krishna and krishna will take care of people who have who are creating trouble for others so if we are troubled by someone we can do whatever it takes to make sure that we are in a situation that we can continue our service but we don’t have to imagine that we have to be the sole dispensers of justice and we have to know that it’s for us to do what it to correct all problems in the world no we do our service as well as possible and leave other things at least when we are focusing on our devotional practices at that time it’s good to remember that our responsibility is primarily to stay connected with krishna and in that connection with krishna whatever we are able to do that will be for the best of everyone if we so by meditating like this that the lord is the reliever of my internal and external distresses we can get the inspiration to take shelter of him even when we are suffering from distress if we start thinking that after i solve this problem then i will take shelter of the lord then the board will always present us with some problem or the other and we’ll never come to a situation where we’ll be able to take shelter of the lord steadily better that whatever be the situation we take shelter of krishna now take shelter of the lord now and with the connection that comes by taking shelter of him with the wisdom that comes to that connection we can deal with the situation the best possible way so we are not running away from problems when we are taking shelter of the lord we are running away from the misdirected mentality that imagines compounding problems to be solving problems quite often when we think oh this problem is there i just go head on and deal with it but what we often do in the name of dealing with it head on is to aggravate it to our knee jerk reaction often make the problem worse but if we focus on krishna and turn to him and take shelter of him and through our devotional meditation and the wisdom and the clarity the composure the wisdom coming right off then we can effectively deal with whatever issues we are facing thank you