Treasure the intelligence that enables us to value the treasure of devotion

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truths thank you where he is depicting his own position and he is taking the position of the conditioned soul for our edification for our instruction and he is saying I have become blinded Ritvivek Mahadhanasya Ritvivek my Viveka my discerning power my intelligence Viveka is not just the information information processing faculty but moral discerning faculty what we could call conscience my discerning faculty Ritvivek it has been stolen away Mahadhanasya and actually it is a great treasure Mahadhanasya Mahadhan now normally we value as a treasure that which enables us to gain something higher that means if the currency gets devalued and then we may have thousands of currency notes but we would not consider them to be a treasure because they do not they will not yield us anything valuable but if we instead recognize that we at our core are spiritual beings we are souls, we are parts of Krishna and being his parts we are not in any position to ever become happy without the remembrance of Krishna so we absolutely need a spiritual devotional connection with Krishna to gain higher happiness without that we may get some temporary sensual deletion but we will never get any lasting satisfaction therefore recognizing this we need to have the vision for making right choices without that vision for making right choices no matter what we do we will end up hurting ourselves we will end up injuring ourselves by not using not making healthy choices just like a student by making the choice of studying can get good marks and have a good career so if that same student starts drinking and wasting time and doesn’t study then that student will ruin one’s career put another way if someone has the has a map to some hidden treasure and if somehow some thief comes and steals away that map then although the treasure is there but the treasure is no longer accessible so in one sense the path to the treasure is also a treasure the map to the treasure is also a treasure similarly for us if we can purify ourselves by making healthy choices to practice bhakti diligently then we all can get elevated get connected with Krishna who is the source of all happiness and by the strength of that connection we all can become supremely enriched unfortunately if we neglect this connection if we instead let ourselves be titillated if we let ourselves be seduced by lower pleasures then the intelligence or the loss of that intelligence which enables us to see spiritual joys as higher as better as more fulfilling and lower worldly pleasures as self-sabotaging that intelligence is a treasure because that intelligence enables us to find our way and that intelligence is our way our discriminating capacity and if some thieves steal away the map then they are terrible thieves so here he is saying Maha Dhanasya is a great treasure Vivek because it can have great results it can offer us eternal happiness or it can offer us or its or its lack of use or its loss can sentence us to lifetimes of continuation cycle of birth and death Chaurair Mahabalibhir Indriyanam Adheyay so Chaurair Mahabalibhir senses are thieves and what kind of thieves Mahabalibhir they are extremely powerful thieves Indriyanam Adheyay known as the senses the senses steal away the treasure that we have the treasure of inner satisfaction and by this stealing of that treasure Mohandakar Kuhare Mohandakar Kuhare Vinipati Tasya in the Kuhare, in the ditch in the deep dark ditch of Mohan of illusion Vinipati Tasya throws us and Devesh Dehi Krupanasya Kara Valambam if somebody is fallen on a ditch then somebody outside has to send a has to offer a rescuing hand to pull the person, fallen person similarly Devesh O Lord, please rescue Dehi he is due to me Krupanasya, I am a foolish person Kara Valambam now when we are trying to practice Bhakti chanting the holy names or rendering devotional service our Viveka is very important and we can pray to Krishna especially when we find ourselves pathetic towards chanting Krishna, please give me the strength please protect my Viveka and if our Viveka is protected if we avoid the temptations offered by the senses then we will not be in the Moha and we will see the holy name to be fulfilling that maybe it will be challenging but we will also see that it is eventually fulfilling and we will feel stimulated to go through the challenge challenging phase and eventually relish the fulfilling culmination of constant taste constant joyful taste in remembrance of Krishna Thank you