Bhakti Vrisksha - Bhagavad Gita 2.70 -1/27/2017

27 Jan

27Jan

Hare Krishna everyone, we had our 66^th Bhakti Vriksha class on Friday 01/27/2017 conducted by HG Sundarnath Prabhu at Chintan Prabhu and Chandni Mataji home and below are the points related to Verse 2.70 we discussed.

BG 2.70

āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṁ samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat
tadvat kāmā yaṁ praviśanti sarve sa śāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī

In Verse 2.70 the supreme personality of Godhead said; A person who is not disturbed by the incessant ﬂow of desires – that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being ﬁlled but is always still – can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.
In this verse Krishna is using an analogy of so many river merging into ocean but ocean staying calm to explain the phenomenon of stithapragya (self realized) person not getting disturbed by incessant flow of desires.
The ocean has disturbances but with all the disturbances the ocean doesn’t move, it doesn’t come out of its own boundaries even though so many rivers go into ocean. Similarly, when a self realized has any desires he/she doesn’t have any inclination towards sense gratification his/her aim is to serve lord.
We all have many desires, it’s not wrong to have desires, but what you do with desires that is important.
Someone may have desire to earn lot of money which is very good but if one tries to engage in sense gratification with that money then that is wrong.
Prabhuad mentioned that we should all use our senses and abilities in Krishna’s service.
Henry Ford’s great grandson Alfred Ford(Ambarish Das initiated disciple of Swami Prabhupad) uses his wealth to donate in temple construction.
Gadadhar Pandit is a good orator so he uses his ability to preach mediation and Krishna consciousness.
Maya is putting up a show every day, every hour, every minute, and every movement offering us desires for sense gratification.
A Krishna conscious person is not in need of anything as Krishna is fulfilling all his/her desires. Even if some desires are not fulfilled then also the Krishna conscious person doesn’t become unhappy about it, he/she know Krishna is providing what is necessary for me.
People are disturbed because their whole life is centered around to gratify the sense which is an endless exercise, the world have enough to satisfy everyone’s need but not for one’s greed.
People usually say that when you become Hare Krishna devotee then you kind of lose interest in life and become less ambitious but that is wrong , a devotees not only have desires to work hard and fulfill spiritual desires but also higher desires to achieve Krishna.
George Harrison was a successful musician in Beatles band and he become Prabhupad’s disciple and wanted to get his head shaven and indulge completely in Krishna conscious activities, but prabhupad said you are good the way you are, keep doing what you do. You can sing for Krishna he later composed great album called my sweet lord.
We can continue to do what we do but for whose sake we have to do we have to change.
There are so many side benefits of Krishna consciousness, we become dedicated to what we are doing, we become focused.
Krishna conscious person know everything belong to lord, one should not encroach in other’s quota but people want to take other’s property.
Radhanath Swami Said “You can see how rich you are by seeing how many things you have that money can’t buy, you can buy bed but not sleep”.
We should have spiritual desire; we should set goals just like in material desire.

Thanks all for coming!!

Thanks to all matajis for sumptuous prasadam.

Hare Krishna

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