Venkatesh Stotram 5 – Contemplate Krishna’s personal and reciprocal nature to bring depth and devotion into the mantra meditation

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
thank you so this particular verse from the Venkatesha Stotra the beauty of lord Krishna is being described so kalavev krishna plays his flute in such a captivating way the gopis are captivated by krishna’s flute playing and what happens after he is captivated so it’s not just one or two gopis hundreds and thousands and millions of gopis are attracted in fact ultimately every soul is attracted to krishna and krishna’s flute song is not just meant only for the gopis krishna has flutes for the cows krishna has flutes, a special flute for the gopis and the flute represents krishna, is one way krishna’s all attractiveness is manifested the principle is that krishna is all attractive and he attracts everyone so there is a alliteration here not the same sound but a complete word that is repeated so there are crores of gopis attracted and krishna is actually more attractive than millions of cupids and not only that it’s not just a mass attraction sometimes there may be a movie star who is young and attractive and then thousands of female fans swoon over him but for them all those fans are just a statistic the star can’t have an individual relationship with each of these fans because he after all is just a finite limited person who because of some talent has got a temporary shorted glory but krishna is a each gopi reciprocates with her in an individual and distinctive way krishna knows every individual means every one of us is distinct and krishna knows each of us distinctly and he has an individual distinctive relationship with each one of us Sukhadad he is the giver of happiness he reciprocates with every soul individually and through that reciprocation grants supreme happiness of devotion Pratibhalavika Abhimata Sukhadad Vasudeva Sutaan Vasudeva Sutaan so that Vasudeva Suta Vasudeva Suta I do not want any other person apart from him as my lord he is my master he is my be all and end all and it is this lord that i want to serve always so here the prayer that is happening is my dear lord you are all attractive, you are individual and you grant supreme happiness and it is this lord who is manifesting as his holy name so when we love and serve krishna we are actually loving and serving a lord who loves us individually distinctly especially and that lord manifests as his holy name so by remembering krishna is all attractive and yet individual and personal reciprocal nature we can feel inspired to offer our heart sometimes when we are chanting it might just appear as if we are just uttering some sound again and again and again and there is nothing there may not seem to us that there is anything personal or devotional or reciprocal about it it might just seem a mechanical repetition but it is not because the name of krishna is not just a sound it is actually the name of the all attractive person and the name is not different from the person and the person is hearing and reciprocating so by meditating on the person krishna and his extraordinary attractive and benevolent nature we can bring depth and devotion to our chanting and thereby get deeper experiences of his reciprocation thank you