Vishnu Sahasra Nama 15 – Krishna is ever-watching and ever-willing to help

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devotion thank you so here the word Sakshi is used to describe the supreme lord Sakshi literally means eye witness so Akshi one who sees with these very eyes so generally eye witness accounts are considered to be very reliable because one is oneself seeing and giving the testimony now Krishna is the eye witness of everything how is that? because he is present in the hearts of every one of us and he also is not just some impersonal presence, some light but he is also a person, a super soul who is present in the heart he is an expansion of the four hand in Vishnu form who are eternally in the spiritual world and who manifest as the Purusha avatars in this world so inside our heart Shirodaksha Vishnu is present as the Paramatma and he is Sakshi he sees with his own eyes so in the Bhagavad Gita 13.14 when the super soul is being described it’s mentioned that his hands and legs are everywhere and similarly his eyes head and mouth is also everywhere so the idea is that we interact with the world through our working senses and knowledge acquiring senses so Krishna’s knowledge acquiring senses and working senses both are everywhere his eyes are everywhere how do we understand the fact that his eyes are everywhere his presence everywhere is not meant to punish but it is to purify, it is to assist it is to elevate now just as when we are in danger if we know some thieves are about to attack us and if we know that a policeman is watching then we know the policeman will protect us and that gives security but if we are ourselves on a mission to rob someone and then we see a policeman is watching us then that will cause fear so Krishna’s presence in our heart if our intention is to serve then it will not punish, it will not cause any panic or fear it will only give security that even if some problems come up Krishna will protect me and especially when we are trying to practice bhakti yoga and often we find that our feelings are not at all devotional, we don’t feel like chanting, we don’t feel like praying we don’t feel at all like connecting with Krishna so at that time we can know that Krishna sees not just our feelings he sees also our feelings about our feelings that means he sees whether we choose to give in to those feelings but or he sees whether we choose to give in to those feelings or to fight against those feelings so we may feel non devotional undevotional but if we persevere in devotion with the determination to please Krishna by our consistency and our diligence then that will also please him so we shouldn’t think that our spiritual advancement is dependent only on our feelings because feelings are the feelings that come up in our mind they are a little bit unpredictable as the modes vary these feelings also vary but our response to our feelings, our feelings about our feelings our feelings about our feelings that refers to our feelings the first refers to our responses do we respond by getting discouraged or do we respond by becoming determined so a serious casual devotee becomes discouraged a serious devotee becomes determined by remembering that these feelings are transitory and they will go, they come because of our identification with the mind and the mind’s susceptibility to be influenced by the modes but as Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita so just as Krishna situated udasina Krishna urges us to also be udasina towards the emotions which come upon us which come upon us and stay fixed on the path of transcendence and this willingness to reject the external feelings that come upon us that willingness is also a sign of our seriousness and that will help us to advance so as Krishna has said earlier that we tolerate heat and cold and we tolerate also happiness and distress 2.14 and this is 2.15 those who tolerate like this will attain liberation so by knowing that Krishna is watching our feelings about our feelings and Krishna is ready to grant us grace and advancement and he will grant us the strength for tolerance towards those feelings and then he will give us the taste for transcendence of those feelings all this will come if we just stay determined in our devotion in spite of the feelings that may come up so saakshi he is watching and he will help if we just show him determinedly that we want his help thank you