When the Paramatma is always in the heart, how can Krishna leave the heart?
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So, when the Paramatma is always present in the heart, what does it mean to say that Krishna may leave our heart? See, when we talk about the heart and Krishna leaving or entering, quite often we implicitly use language that is not necessarily literal. For example, even the concept of the heart, when you say my heart is broken, well, it’s not that the biological organ heart has been broken, isn’t it? We use the word heart in a literal sense to refer to the biological organ.
And we use the word heart also to refer to the seat of emotions. Similarly, leaving the heart, Krishna, of course, never leaves the heart. Sarvasya chaaham hrithi sannidhi vishtu.
He is always there in the heart. But when we say Krishna leaves the heart, that basically means that, you know, we no longer feel the presence of Krishna in our heart. We no longer, we are no longer aware of his presence.
So that can happen because of certain decisions, certain actions that we do, certain desires that we let grow. So there is, there are times in our life when we do bhakti nicely and we feel Krishna’s presence. But then if we expose ourselves too much to sensuality or expose ourselves too much to criticism of devotees of Krishna, then our heart becomes, we don’t feel the presence of Krishna in our heart.
So we are talking more in terms of not Krishna leaving the heart literally, but more in terms of we not being aware, not feeling Krishna’s presence. So that’s how Kaikeyi, by her decisions, by her listening submissively to mantra, she caused Lord Ram to leave Dwarka. So by our, by our listening to doubts, we may also, Krishna may become unmanifest to us in our heart.
Although he’s always manifest, but he may become unmanifest to us and we may not feel his presence at all. Not feeling his presence means that even when we practice bhakti, we don’t feel any softness of the heart. We don’t feel any joy.
We don’t feel any upliftment of our consciousness. So basically, we don’t feel Krishna’s presence. That’s what happens when we expose ourselves to doubts or desires too much.
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