| Canto 5: The Creative Impetus Chapter 18: The Prayers Offered to the Lord by the Residents of Jambūdvīpa |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.18.37
anvīkṣayāńgātiśayātma-buddhibhir
[From - http://vedabase.net/sb/5/18/37/ ]
TRANSLATION
The objects of material enjoyment [sound, form, taste, touch and smell], the activities of the senses, the controllers of sensory activities [the demigods], the body, eternal time and egotism are all creations of Your material energy. Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy. They can also see Your transcendental form as Supersoul in the background of everything. Therefore I repeatedly offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
From the mâyâ to Your form raised by the objects of the senses, the controlling deities over the senses, the body, the predominating time, by false ego and the modes of nature observed as a fact, are those whose intelligence found its stability the careful consideration of all the different limbs of the yoga system, completely freed; unto that Supreme Soul my reverential homage.
From the mâyâ to Your form raised by the objects of the senses, the controlling deities over the senses, the body, the predominating time, by false egotism and the modes of nature observed as a fact, are those whose intelligence has become fixed through the careful considering of all the different limbs of the yogasystem, completely freed; unto that Supreme Soul my reverential homage.[From - http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/canto5/chapter18.html#Text%2037 ]
An attempt to understand - by Bharat Bhushan
Life goes topsy turvy all of a sudden. Its extremely painful when one knows that something that you dread is going to happen, so slowly building up for the final avalanche. It is unlike a cyclone. You know that a cyclone has a beginning, an eye, and an end. Or is that a hurricane? But with an avalanche, you have only one option - keep running ahead of it. Can you stand still, face the avalanche and threaten the avalanche? When it is rushing towards you? Will that scare the avalanche? You hope that it will perhaps frighten the avalanche. Should one accept the inevitable? Should one continue to keep working as if nothing has happened? Is there a way to avoid the hit by the avalanche?
There may be two more options. First, hide under a shelter, before the avalanche begins to move, let it crash down all around you, and allow it to wash away. Second, you can dig down, underground, if there is no shelter around you. Dig deep down, pull everything else above you, and hope that you can breathe afterwards, and walk safely past he damage that the avalanche has caused in the area.
An avalanche is an avalanche and will not change its behaviour. It will destroy everything on its route and will also destroy its own speed when it eats up its own mass. Hide. Dig. Go deep. Events far away can have an impact all around you. If planets far away can have an impact and predict your future, then events on the planet can have a bigger impact.
Get ready. Be prepared. Work at it and organise oneself. How much can one hope that the fallout should not consume oneself? Main focus, simple clear objective, is to take care of one's own health, one's mental stability and well being. If one is health, thinking well, keeping the mind clear, and being very stable, then one can stay healthy, be strong and face another day.
3.1.2011
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