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Beginning with text 64 and continuing almost until the end of Chapter

Two, Ka answers Arjunas last question: How does he walk? The


purport of this question is: How does a man in transcendence engage
his senses? Beginning with text 64 and continuing almost until the
end of Chapter Two, Ka answers Arjunas last question: How does he
walk? The purport of this question is: How does a man in
transcendence engage his

2.64:-

Purport:- The Ka conscious person is concerned only with the


satisfaction of Ka, and nothing else. Therefore he is
transcendental to all attachment and detachment. If Ka wants, the
devotee can do anything which is ordinarily undesirable; and if Ka
does not want, he shall not do that which he would have ordinarily
done for his own satisfaction. Therefore to act or not to act is
within his control because he acts only under the direction of Ka.
This consciousness is the causeless mercy of the Lord, which the
devotee can achieve in spite of his being attached to the sensual
platform.

2.65:- He is satisfied in his KC & thus he has steady & fixed


intelligence. Although he is controlling his senses & regulating them
& using them in Krsnas service, but he is fully satisfied in his KC.
Without that satisfaction in KC, without that para dv nivartate
it is impossible to actually remain fix. This is one of the great
challenges of a devotee he has to get the higher taste for hearing &
chanting about Krsna. If we just try to work & work & work for Krsna,
our work wont blossom into higher taste. We have to hear about Krsna
otherwise our work will turn into karma. We will just be working &
working & gradually material desires will come & then we want a part
of the results that will come. Therefore its a challenge of getting
that higher taste.

nma cintmai ka

caitanya-rasa-vigraha

pra uddho nitya-mukto

bhinnatvn nma-nmino

CC Madhya 17.133

The name is Krsna & non different than Krsna. So we have to get that
taste otherwise the pull of material desire will drag us to act in so
many ways first to contemplate the objects of the senses. Then
attachment will develop. The higher taste must develop. It is a great
challenge. So if the mind & senses becomes deviated what happens is
described in next verse.

SUM:- Without bhakti, regardless of what one possesses or what one


does, no one is satisfied, as we see in the example of rla
Vysadevas lamentation in the First Canto of the rmad-Bhgavatam.
Vysadeva had compiled the Vedas, added the Puras and composed the
Mahbhrata, yet because he had not emphasized bhakti, he remained
dissatisfied in mind.

2.66:- So its the same point. We have to fix our mind on Krsna
without which it will be constantly thinking what we want even if it
is superficially dressed like devitional service. We will be the
center of it & wont bring the satisfaction we are looking for. We must
learn the art of pleasing guru & Krsna.

Purport:- Unless one is in Ka consciousness, there is no


possibility of peace. So it is confirmed in the Fifth Chapter (5.29)
that when one understands that Ka is the only enjoyer of all the
good results of sacrifice and penance, that He is the proprietor of
all universal manifestations, and that He is the real friend of all
living entities, then only can one have real peace. Therefore, if one
is not in Ka consciousness, there cannot be a final goal for the
mind. Disturbance is due to want of an ultimate goal, and when one is
certain that Ka is the enjoyer, proprietor and friend of everyone
and everything, then one can, with a steady mind, bring about peace.
Therefore, one who is engaged without a relationship with Ka is
certainly always in distress and is without peace, however much he may
make a show of peace and spiritual advancement in life. Ka
consciousness is a self-manifested peaceful condition which can be
achieved only in relationship with Ka. 44:50

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