Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
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"Bhismadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which
were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the
all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is always self-satisfied, but sometimes,
being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental pleasure by
descending on the material world, although from Him only the material world
is created."
Because Bhīṣmadeva was a statesman, the head of the Kuru dynasty, a great
general and a leader of kṣatriyas, his mind was strewn over so many
subjects, and his thinking, feeling and willing were engaged in different
matters.Now, in order to achieve pure devotional service, he wanted to
invest all powers of thinking, feeling and willing entirely in the Supreme
Being, Lord Kṛṣṇa.
He is described herein as the leader of the devotees and all-powerful. Pure
devotees of the Lord have no desire other than the service of the Lord, and
therefore they are called sātvata. The Lord is the chief amongst such
sātvatas.
Bhīṣmadeva, therefore, had no other desires. Unless one is purified from all
sorts of material desires, the Lord does not become one's leader. Desires
cannot be wiped out, but they have only to be purified...
For the ordinary man who wants to lord it over material nature, the Lord not
only sanctions and becomes a witness of activities, but He never gives the
nondevotee instructions for going back to Godhead. That is the difference in
dealings by the Lord with different living beings, both the devotee and the
nondevotee.
He is leader of all the living beings, as the king of the state rules both
the prisoners and the free citizens. But His dealings are different in terms
of devotee and nondevotee.
Nondevotees never care to take any instruction from the Lord, and therefore
the Lord is silent in their case, although He witnesses all their activities
and awards them the necessary results, good or bad. The devotees are above
this material goodness and badness. They are progressive on the path of
transcendence, and therefore they have no desire for anything material.
SB.1.9.32
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