Vishnu Sahasra Nama 12 – Our goal cannot liberate us as long as our desires are bound

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Hare Krishna Liberation is considered the goal but the Vishnu Sahasranama asserts that actually the liberated also have a goal and that goal is Vishnu Paramagati, so there can be many Gatis, all of us have our various goals in life and we may want to get a better job, have a new house, buy a new car or whatever become a successful person, there are all various goals and subjectively speaking while there can be a conflicting competition between many of these goals, one goal we may decide is most important, that is my Paramagati, say I want to go to America and that’s where I want to go, that is my Paramagati, but our goals are often bound in the Ajamila section of the Bhagavatam, a word is used Baddha Trishna to describe the condition source, it’s interesting Trishna is like craving, desires so the desires are bound so it’s interesting, we say that what is this bondage, our desires are bound even when we want to desire something higher our desires again come back to lower things, just like an addict say alcoholic addict may want to think of other things but thoughts go back to alcohol again and again, so like that the desires get bound, so even our Paramagati is actually not Parama, it is still material, it may even be Adhama, so our desires are bound to the things of this world, but those who are Muktanam those whose desires are not bound, what happens to them is it that they give up all desires yes they do give up all desires, but still they have an aspiration and their aspiration is to attain Lord Vishnu, to attain His abode to attain His association, to attain His service so Muktanam Paramagati hi so through this glorification, the transcendental position of Lord Vishnu as Paratpara Brahma Brahma is itself considered Para, but the absolute truth Vishnu is beyond Brahma also so it is Paratpara so that is being established over here and the Bhagavatam also demonstrates this to the example of Shukadeva Goswami who Atma Ramas Chimnayo Nirvantha Purukrame Tehetukim Bhaktim Ittham Bhuta Guno Harihe so it is described about Shukadeva Goswami that he was liberated, Atma Ram but still he was attracted to the glories of Lord Krishna that indicates that the glories of Lord Krishna are not material, because Shukadeva Goswami was free from all material attractions so he will be attracted only to transcendental things, and this proves that Krishna’s glories are transcendental so what is demonstrated in the Bhagavatam is embodied, is contained is embedded in this one name Muktanam Paramangati He so by meditating on the glories of the Lord thus we can get the inspiration to also aspire to attain that Lord although at present our desires may be bound but the Krishna but by knowledge, by contemplation on the glory of Krishna and the rarity of the opportunity to attain Him we can redirect our desire from worldly things to Krishna and thereby ultimately we can return to Him we can attain His abode so the Holy Name can make us Mukta and can change our understanding of what is the Paramangati and purifying us and eventually it can help us, catapult us, take us right to the lofty, loftiest reaches of the spiritual world where we attain Muktanam