Unloosen All Ties Within the Heart
By Śrīla B.R. Śrīdhara Deva Goswāmī Mahārāja, excerpted from Inner Fulfilment.
The innate principle of life is to save one’s own self, to become immortal, to come out of ignorance, and to become happy.
Our very existence is being threatened at every second here where we live; also, ignorance is threatening to cover our knowledge; and we are always being threatened to be swallowed by misery. These are our standing enemies, our born enemies, which are constantly threatening us.
We must fight them in a scientific way and find out how to get free from them. They threaten our very existence, our very knowledge, and our very sense of happiness.
bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiś chhidyante sarva-saṁśayāḥ
ksīyante chāsya karmāṇi mayi drṣte ’khilātmani1
When we gain the proper solution, all questions will disappear. That which is almost impossible and unthinkable—such a solution we will gain from the ancient scripture Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Such a stage is possible. What is that? Bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiḥ: all the ties within the heart will be unloosened. The heart is full of different bindings. We tie ourselves with this idea, that idea—thousands of ideas. We are tied down by: “I like this. I like that. I like it.” But there is a certain type of knowledge that may descend within us that will cause all these bindings to be unloosened at once.
At once we will find that so many ties are all unnecessary: so unloosen them, unloosen them all. They are our enemies. We thought them to be our friends, and we wanted to tie ourselves with them. Unloosen! Unloosen! Unloosen! They are not friends—but are all enemies—therefore all the ties of the heart are to be broken off.
Bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiḥ is in the first stage: to become free of the ties of activity—karma. And the layer of knowledge is the next stage, chhidyante sarva-saṁśayāḥ: there are so many doubts; doubts after doubts, but just as mist disappears, all doubts will be cleared. There is such a stage: a plane free from all doubt.
The Upaniṣads also come and say:
yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati
yasmin prāpte sarvam idaṁ prāptaṁ bhavati
tad vijijñāsasva tad eva brahma2
Enquiry is good, but enquire like a proper man, in a proper, scientific way. Search. Search for the particular thing which equates to the search of everything. Come to search that thing which will solve your entire problem. Searching after this, searching after the wants of A, searching after B, searching after C—dismiss all these mad ideas. Search only after the one thing that will satisfy everything. It is possible.
Yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati: if we know that one point, everything is known. If we get that thing, everything is achieved. Is it possible? Yes, it is possible! And when we come to such faith, then it is real faith: it is śraddhā.
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