|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 342 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  193

Bhikshu Gita

Srimad Bhagavath Mahapuran teaches ways to get control over the cluster of unwanted thoughts, which has the nature of animal and human behaviors causes miseries and sorrows.  The behavior of animal are structured in a particular manner, they keep chasing for pleasure, do not have independent thinking, they follow exactly the same as their herds, chase for its prey, mate for physical pleasure, and finally, get killed or die of natural death.  The human mind and intellect only have the capability of independent and rational/Maneesha, thinking.  The animal behavior in human take pleasure in unpleasant deeds, words, and thoughts, it gets fasten with the worldly matter and bondage, and feels helpless like an elephant tied to the poll, even though the elephant has immense strength to get it freed from the pole in seconds, it will not attempt to get freed, because of the practice of several years, in this way the human mind which is extremely resourceful gets fastened with the cluster of unwanted thoughts without making an effort to get rid of it.  Srimad Bhagavath Mahapuran educate how to get relieved from the cluster of thoughts which causes mental and physical exhaustion, with a marvelous knowledge that thoughts cannot overrule the mind, unless and until it is allowed. Whoever realizes the damages caused by the cluster of unwanted thoughts and takes initiative to get out of those redundant thoughts become their own preceptor. The path of enlightenment is extremely harsh, it needs extreme austerities and penance, such as control over senses, Shareeram/fasting, Vachakam/Vakshudhdhi, and Manasikam/ meditation.

Udhdhava speaks “ Oh! Bhagavan, you have advised keeping lighthearted if anyone tries to humiliate with word, action, or thoughts, Oh! Krishna, it is impossible to practice for an ordinary person like me, kindly narrate how is it possible? Even the intellectuals fail to practice control over them.”

Bhagavan speaks “ Oh! Udhdhava, you have raised a brilliant question, I shall describe a legend /Ithihasa to you, listen to me carefully.  There was a Bhikshu/mendicant have to suffer constant humiliation from the people of the village he lived, he recovered from the disgraces and sung marvelously a song.  I shall narrate the story of the Bhikshu who lived in the city of Avanthi.”