Re: Daily Study of Bhagavad Gita As It Is - one verse and purport per day

From the book 'Follow the Angels' by HDG Srila BR Sridhara Dev Goswami.

Subjective Vision
Those in touch with Divinity are all-seeing, all-knowing, subjective. Ignorant people ascribe objective
vision to this higher plane. It is difficult to conceive. If we stand before the Deity, we
should not indulge our eye or any other sense in order to experience the Deity. When we think of
Him as an object of our senses, we are deceived. We should be trained to find the Seer in the
seen. Drastari drsyatvam—try to see the subjective existence.

The Deity is subjective existence. We are the object of His sight. He is all-seeing, all-feeling, all-knowing.
The Bhagavatam says that is the proper view. Then we are in a position to view the
Reality; we have to come in touch with Reality. It is all super-subjective. Then we come to live
in the dhama, the holy abode.

That is the dhama, the divine area, where one can feel that the whole environment is superior,
made of subjective existence. All should be revered; none are there to serve us, there for our enjoyment.
Everything is to be approached with veneration and regard. We are their servants. The
Lord and His kingdom are venerable, super-subjective. Then we come into contact with Vaikuntha,
the higher entity.

The objective entity is all maya, all bhoga. What we see as the object of our enjoyment is illusion
and concoction, maya. When everything is revered, worshiped, and treated with respect, then
we are in Vaikuntha, in Vrndavana. It is mentioned in Caitanya Caritamrta, vaikunthera prthivyadi
sakala cinmaya (C.c. Adi-lila 5.53): everything is made of spiritual stuff and superior to us.
Below there is Maya and above there is Yogamaya, the land of the Lord. We want to get out of
this entanglement, this separate interest. What is superior, we imagine that to be inferior to ourselves
and want to use it for our own purpose and enjoyment. The world of enjoyment is a concocted
one.

We should learn to see that everything must be treated with reverence and with serving attitude,
everything. Then we can come in contact with the dhama, the land of the Lord, where every particle
is to be worshiped. Everything holds a superior position. What is really supernatural, we are
treating it as though it is naturally part of the sense experience. No. Just try, bhidyate hrdayagranthis
cidyante sarva-samsayah, ksiyante casya karmani mayi drs e 'khilatmani (Bhag.
11.20.30). Disassociate the ego of separate existence totally from enjoyment. Abolish the tendency
to enjoy, to utilize whatever we find to satisfy our senses. This angle of vision, this maya,
this ego, the center of such experience should be totally abolished. Dissolved. And all doubts
will be cleared when we find ourselves in that plane.

When we are free from the clutches of separate interest, then all suspicion and doubt will be cleared.
We shall feel this through direct soul experience, the experience of the inner senses that we
possess. Then there will be no need for all our attempts and efforts; they'll stop. No special endeavor
must be undertaken for our purpose because we have no separate existence. We are particles in
the Infinite and that which is feeding the Infinite will feed us also.

We shall find the general interest everywhere. We are not separate, so there is no necessity of
acting for our special interest. We shall see the divine arrangement for everyone, including every
grain of sand. We are one in the whole and the main current is doing everything, so no karma, no
action is necessary on our own behalf.

Then it will become very clear that we have our duty in that universal flow, and we are one of
them. We are particles there. Automatically the universal force handles us in such a way. That is
Yogamaya, the Lord's internal potency, not Mahamaya, the controller of the material universe.
That plane is not acted upon by separate interest, but influenced by the general interest of the
whole. We have our movement there, and that is service, not enjoyment.

 

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