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- The wisdom of Bhisma Dev Part 2
- The wisdom of Bhisma Dev Part 1
- Urban Yoga Kirtan, Melbourne 2011, part 2
| The wisdom of Bhisma Dev Part 2 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:55 PM PST (Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011)
Bhisma Dev said: "Okay, no problem". It wasn't even like: "Well, you know……….well this is very painful, what you are asking here". No, there was nothing in his heart like that. It wasn't painful for him to give up the throne. And that was not just a throne, since that was like unlimited opulence….inconceivable opulence. But he was not interested. Therefore, Bhisma Dev was thoroughly free from the enjoying propensities. He was thoroughly free from the material energy, and had no desire to be in this world. Whilst he was here, he was simply serving Krishna. That was his meditation. Not only was Bhisma not just desiring to be in this world and enjoy the material energy, Bhisma Dev was also not desiring to get out of this material world. He also did not think about liberation as his meditation! One mood is the mood to enjoy, and the other mood is: "Oh god, this world is too much! It's just a world of frustration; it's a world of pain; it's a world of suffering; it's a world of misery. We got to get out of here, if we can do anything to get out of here, and out of this world!" That meditation was also not Bhisma Dev's daily or constant meditation. His meditation simply was: "Let me serve Krishna!" So that is vaisnava. Bhisma Dev was beyond karma and beyond jñānī. He was on the level of: 'sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam', [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. As mentioned in the 'Pancaratras', he was only interested in satisfying the senses of Krishna!   |
| The wisdom of Bhisma Dev Part 1 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:39 PM PST (Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011)
"I have been purchased by the wealth of Duryodhana". That was not a fact. Others maybe – yes. Others may have joined him because Duryodhana made them offers. This whole battle of Kuruksetra had different warriors who would take sides, and not only out of ideological reasons. No, there were often times when those who came first and proposed good offers: "I'll give you all this?" "Okay, I'm on your side!" A lot was simply based on monetary gain, and Bhisma referred to himself like that. The fact of the matter was that Bhisma was not interested in material enjoyment, and he proved that with his vow. Previously his name was 'Devavratha', which was given to him by birth. The name 'Bhisma' was given to him by a celestial voice, at the time when he made that vow to never get married. Devavratha, the great vowed that impossible vow of celibacy. When he made that vow, the demigods showered flowers upon him, and there was a celestial voice calling out: "Bhisma – the terrible vow! He's taking the terrible vow!" So one cannot take that terrible vow, and simultaneously on another level be inclined towards enjoying the material energy, because then celibacy becomes impossible! One must give up the enjoying propensity. One must thoroughly give it up, if one actually wants to give up sex life, because otherwise, many types of enjoying mentality locks us in a train of emotions and thoughts, in the train of thinking feeling and willing, which will ultimately end in the final station called 'sex'. And the train halts here and all passengers are meant to leave the train and: "Don't forget to take your belongings and get off here!" That is the nature of the mind!  |
| Urban Yoga Kirtan, Melbourne 2011, part 2 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST
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