BG 11.49: You have been perturbed and bewildered by seeing this horrible feature of Mine. Now let it be finished. My devotee, be free again from all disturbances. With a peaceful mind you can now see the form you desire.
BG 11.50: Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, having spoken thus to Arjuna, displayed His real four-armed form and at last showed His two-armed form, thus encouraging the fearful Arjuna.
These verses are very interesting. These tell you the mood of Krsna and his personality. When we want to develop a relationship with a person, we try to understand the mood of the person. We want to learn how that person behaves. In these verses, we understand that Krsna cares for Arjuna, he wants to reciprocate with Arjuna's needs. He know what Arjuna desires. He is such a sweet Lord. He knew Arjuna is feeling disturbed, so let me finish this horrible form.
He is a bhakta-vatsala - He doesn't like to see his devotees disturbed or troubled. He wants to take care of his devotees and want them to be free from all disturbances. He is more pained when his children are pained. He is atmaram but when the devotee is suffering, Krsna is also hurt. But why are we suffering or in pain, because of our own karma. Ex - when a child doesn't work hard and gets low marks even the parents are in pain, but they are not disturbed. Similarly, Krsna is feeling pain for all his children.
Krsna;s desire is for all of us to become free from disturbances. He is wishing and praying like this. But unfortunately, we are creating trouble for all of us. SP is also explaining why he should this form to Arjuna - 1. Arjuna asked for it 2. Arjuna could see the future and understand that the people for whom he was worried that he will be killing them, he saw that all of them are already killed because of their negligence and hence will be punished. Now if Arjuna has to choose if he wants to be an instrument or somebody else to be the instrument. Hence he should not hesitate to do his duty.
A devotee isn't very interested in Universal form. Bhakta means, one who is doing bhakti. Dev service onto Krsna. Devotee wants to connect with some feature of the Lord. To reciprocate with a loving devotee he also shows a loving 2 handed form so he can have a relationship with them. The ultimate conclusion is - how to develop loving exchanging with Krsna.
3 features of Krsna are brahman, paramatma and bhagavan. We can only develop loving exchanges with the Bhagavan feature of the Lord. The moment you take the bhakti feature out, the loving exchange is lost. Hence the personal feature is so important. Bhakti yoga is the culmination of all the yogas. The lord is reciprocating at the deepest level in bhakti yoga. Loving exchanges with Krsna. So, we can say Krsna cares of his devotees and this verses give us so much FAITH.
We should have so much faith that Krsna is actually receiving my chanting, my bhoga, my aarti offering, my service. We should break the barrier and become personal with Krsna. Ex- Shabri and berries she was personal to make sure berries are sweet - such a detail of bhakti. What is my Lord feeling, how do I reciprocate with my Lord. Ex - how when I feed Vivaan I take care of each bite before he eats. I eat first to make sure he's ok. That is Love, we need to develop pure transcendental love for Krsna.
Us going through difficult situations in life just like Arjuna went through the difficult situation to see the Universal form, the purpose is to come closer to Krsna and that he';s a loving father he then get love for Krsna. Just like Brahmaji prayed - My dear Lord these difficult situations are coming but dear Lord you are so merciful that you are taking care of me inspite of these difficult situations. It is your LOVE which is saving me and because of your love you are taking care of me. A pure devotee is in this mood always.
Saumya-Vapu means very beautiful. Krsna's form is soo beautiful that if once anyone sees that form, one forgets everything else. That is the power of Krsna's beauty. Yamuna at Kesi ghat - the beautiful form of Govinda is present there and that will make you lose taste of the material world. We can't see the beautiful form through our eyes, only can be seen through the heart. Example - parents of an ugly child think their child is so beautiful - because they are seeing him with different vision. Similarly, we need to get proper vision and that vision can be got by LOVE for Krsna. Devotees are always taking the darshan of Shyamsundar form because they are anointed by the pure love for Krsna.
He can't tolerate the pain of his children. To rescue his children he comes personally in this age to help them come back home as Mahaprabhu. Seeing the horrible state in Kali, he comes as the most merciful incarnation (Audarya bhava) - Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Mahaprabhu taught harinaam sankirtan. Just by this, one may be able to cross over the ocean of necissence. Actually every moment we are defeated by kama, krodha, lobha..... Hence we need to conquer these anarthas by following Mahaprabhu's and acaryas foottsteps. Harinaam sankirtan will cleanse the heart of all the anarthas.
One most important part of Harinaam Sankirtan comes in the 3rd verse of Sistastakam - be more humble than blade of tree ..... In that consciousness can somebody chant the holy name of the Lord constantly. That is the key for somebody to make progress in bhakti yoga. Hence, to take advantage of Harinaam sankirtan - we need to become humble and surrender at the lotus feet of Mahaprabhu and then chant with a pure heart and that's when we can progress in our spiritual life. Kirtaniya sada hari!
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