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TEXT 73 arjuna uvaca
SYNONYMS  arjunah uvaca--Arjuna
said; nastah--dispelled; mohah--illusion; smrtih--memory;
labdha--regained; tvat-prasadat--by Your mercy; maya--by
me; acyuta--O infallible Krsna; sthitah--situated; asmi--I
am; gata--removed; sandehah--all doubts; karisye--I
shall execute; vacanam--order; tava--Your.
TRANSLATION Arjuna said,
My dear Krsna, O infallible one, my illusion is now gone. I have regained
my memory by Your mercy, and I am now firm and free from doubt and am prepared
to act according to Your instructions.
PURPORT The constitutional
position of a living entity, represented by Arjuna, is that he has to act
according to the order of the Supreme Lord. He is meant for self-discipline.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that the actual position of the living entity
is that of eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. Forgetting this principle,
the living entity becomes conditioned by material nature, but in serving
the Supreme Lord, he becomes the liberated servant of God. The living entity's
constitutional position is to be a servitor; he has to serve either the
illusory maya or the Supreme Lord. If he serves the Supreme Lord,
he is in his normal condition, but if he prefers to serve the illusory
external energy, then certainly he will be in bondage. In illusion the
living entity is serving in this material world. He is bound by his lust
and desires, yet he thinks of himself as the master of the world. This
is called illusion. When a person is liberated, his illusion is over, and
he voluntarily surrenders unto the Supreme to act according to His desires.
The last illusion, the last snare of maya to trap the living entity,
is the proposition that he is God. The living entity thinks that he is
no longer a conditioned soul, but God. He is so unintelligent that he does
not think that if he were God, then how could he be in doubt? That he does
not consider. So that is the last snare of illusion. Actually to become
free from the illusory energy is to understand Krsna, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, and agree to act according to His order.
The word
moha is very important in this verse. Moha refers to that
which is opposed to knowledge. Actually real knowledge is the understanding
that every living being is eternally a servitor of the Lord, but instead
of thinking oneself in that position, the living entity thinks that he
is not a servant, that he is the master of this material world, for he
wants to lord it over the material nature. That is his illusion. This illusion
can be overcome by the mercy of the Lord or by the mercy of a pure devotee.
When that illusion is over, one agrees to act in Krsna consciousness.
Krsna consciousness
is acting according to Krsna's order. A conditioned soul illusioned by
the external energy of matter does not know that the Supreme Lord is the
master who is full of knowledge and who is the proprietor of everything.
Whatever He desires He can bestow upon His devotees; He is the friend of
everyone, and He is especially inclined to His devotee. He is the controller
of this material nature and of all living entities. He is also the controller
of inexhaustible time, and He is full of all opulences and all potencies.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead can even give Himself to the devotee.
One who does not know Him is under the spell of illusion; he does not become
a devotee, but a servitor of maya. Arjuna, however, after hearing
Bhagavad-gita from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, became free
from all illusion. He could understand that Krsna was not only his friend,
but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And he understood Krsna factually.
So to study Bhagavad-gita is to understand Krsna factually. When
a person is in full knowledge, he naturally surrenders to Krsna. When Arjuna
understood that it was Krsna's plan to reduce the unnecessary increase
of population, he agreed to fight according to Krsna's desire. He again
took up his weapons--his arrows and bow--to fight under the order of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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