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Faced with his acute predicament, Maharaja Pariksit (at the conclusion of Canto One) enquired about the duty of one who is about to die. Sukadeva Goswami’s sharpened words of wisdom helped the King to sever his material attachments and achieve spiritual connection. Just like Maharaja Pariksit, everyone has a limited amount of time in this world, and, before we breathe our final breath, all material attachments must be completely cut off so we can re-enter the spiritual world.
Canto Two describes the process of universal creation. When it registers that this temporary realm, which is in constant flux, is simply a circumstantial backdrop in our ‘play of life,’ we’re able to detach ourselves from it. It is Krishna in the spiritual world whom we all have an eternal relationship with, who exists prior to this creation, and who remains after its destruction. Residence in that eternal reality, however, is only possible for those who cut their attachment to this temporary phantasmagoria.
“Santah means the persons who are sadhu, who are pious. They can cut off by their words our attachment with this material world. They can cut off. Just like Krishna is speaking to Arjuna. What is the idea of speaking so many things? Just to cut off his attachment from the so-called material affection. He is affected with something which is stumbling his progress in his own duty. So He is, Krishna is presenting His Bhagavad-gita just to cut off. Santa eva hi chindanti uktibhih. Uktibhih. Chindanti means cut. Now, for cutting something we require some sharpened instrument. But here, to cut off the mind from attachment, it requires sharpened ukti. Ukti means words. Sharpened topics. There should not be... Just like when a person cuts something, there is no mercy, similarly when a sadhu or a person saint, speaks to his student, he does not make, show any mercy. He speaks the truth so that his mind may be cut off from the unreal attachment.”
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