|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 341 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  192

Udhdhava speaks “Oh! Govinda, even the intellectuals find it difficult to know the supreme knowledge of your all-pervasive nature, therefore they have to leave the body and take birth again and again, kindly narrate about it.”

Bhagavan speaks “ Oh! Udhdhava, The mind, and intellect absorbs the pleasure through the sense organs; it’s a storehouse of worldly desires and matters, it leaves the body with unfinished desires and lust, and takes birth again and again.  The mind and intellect constantly engage in collecting worldly matters and pleasures that are heard or seen and make an effort to fulfill those desires.  People who are drenched in the worldly matters and bondages, approach the death, AthyanthaVismrithi/memory loss causes re-births.  Oh! Udhdhava, The mind, and intellect initiated from the supreme soul should attain the union with it with the constant practice of meditation.   The life of humans on the Earth is as simple as the sparks from the fire diffuse in the fire; the rivers merge in the ocean, fruits get ripened and combine with the Prakrithi.  Oh! Udhhdava, The human body undergoes various stages of development such as child/5 years, youth/16 years, middle age/60 years and old age. Oh! Udhdhava, whoever understands the eternal truth that the presence of the changeless supreme soul which is the source of the functioning of the body, mind, and intellect, elevates their soul with the constant contemplation upon me would attain serenity and peace.  Oh! Udhdhava, the thoughts in the human mind and intellect is like the trees on the river banks replicate its shadow on the water, and whenever the water moves it creates an illusion of movement of the trees.  The thoughts are fleeting nature like the illusion of movement of the tree on the water; the supreme soul is eternal.  Oh! Udhdhava, an ignorant is whoever soaked in worldly matters and bondage, never knew that people or things easily creates boredom in life, still continues to chase after pleasing senses, and cannot elevate their souls.  Oh! Udhdhava, if you want to get relieved from all those thoughts of material well-being, and people, attain control over the senses that create obstacle to the elevation of your soul, practice meditation upon me, it would bring good control over your sense, like an intelligent person who do get disturbed or feel hurt of physical and verbal abuses, not react to sarcastic and spiteful comment of others, and will not get disappointed at the act of disgrace or throwing dirt on him.”