||Srimad Bhagavath Mahapuran||

||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 55 - Jada Bharatha’s conversation with the King Raghugana -3

Jadabharatha continues “Oh! Rajan, a person who is soaked in the worldly matters, lacking control of mind, focusing on the sensual pleasures and miseries of life could not turn aside from it and concentrate on the supreme Lord who resides as a soul in the human body.  The flexible mind turns away from the worldly matters at ease and concentrates on the Supreme Lord.  Oh! Rajan, the air has all-pervading nature and vital for the existence of living beings on Earth, in the same manner, Bhagavan Vasudeva/Kshethrajja resides as soul the living beings.  The person who has the knowledge of Athman, that body is perishable and the mind is the tool shaping an individual, it has the power to wander around worldly matters as well as to concentrate on the supreme Lord Bhagavan Vasudeva who is eternal.  The mind has the power to focus on the supreme Lord at ease, but it cannot stand up with the thoughts of other individuals for a long time, thus the difference of opinion arises in all relationships.  The mind that was originated from the soul has the ultimate destination, it has to return to the supreme Lord who resides as a soul like rivers and streams find its way to merge with the ocean.  The individual who understands this ultimate truth would live as a renounced soul.  As long as the mind wanders around seeking sensual pleasures, it will not realize the knowledge of self.  Oh! Rajan,  therefore focus your mind on the supreme Lord who resides as a soul in you, otherwise, you have to undergo the troubles of mental and physical ailments on your whole life, you will not get freed by miseries and sorrows of worldly existence.  Therefore, you should turn your feeble mind that is wandering all over seeking sensual pleasures into the glorious myths of Lord who is the supreme Preceptor, capable to elevate the soul from miseries and sorrows of worldly existence.  ”

King Raghugana replied “ Oh! Mahathma, Oh! Avadhootha, I shall reverentially prostrate before you,  I could understand your teaching about the highest of the truth, even though I have the slightest doubt to clear with you.  All your teachings are like medicines to a patient, it is comfortable for a person who is fighting in the icy cold.  Oh! Mahatma, you have narrated the strange aptitude of the mind to wedge with the eternal truth of Paramathma, and the capacity to stay away from it.  I could understand your teachings, but I am unable to visualize it.”