SD 10.22.34 "These
trees fulfill one's desires with their leaves, flowers and fruits, their shade,
roots, bark and wood, and also with their fragrance, sap, ashes, pulp and
shoots."
This
sloka is spoken by Krishna to the cowherd boys.
He is describing the pleasure that the trees give to him for their
nature of using their life and qualities to serve others.
"Disturbances in
Vraja" is the way Bhaktivinoda Thakura called the anarthas, which are the greatest impediment
for the conditioned jiva to enter the spiritual world. The tree of the ego that
we have grown in lifetimes of vicious activities carries the leaves of bad
qualities and egotistical mind set. So
the devotee by sadhana bhakti with
faith, devotion and concentration, should let all these leaves to go and
transform the tree of envy, the anchor to material life, into one of the trees
that give happiness to Krishna, because everyone's happiness is in Krishna's
happiness. This realization can start
the process for clearing the anarthas (or
anartha nivrtti).
Ripe
and ready
for
the transforming wind
of
the autumn season,
that
clears the sky, the waters
and
the mind, (1)
I
let go the leaves
from
the tree of my ego,
I'll
not feel pain
letting
go the dead leaves
of
arguments and conflicts,
growing
instead a soft smile within,
while
the emptiness of my heart
rustles
and is blown away like a dry leaf.
I
will look at untruthfulness,
false
pretense, hypocrisy
and
desire for superiority,
as
brown parched leaves
releasing
them with joy
into
the purifying gusts
of
this wind,
feeling
peaceful and free
as
the leaves of deception
and
conceit
drop
from my tree;
without
hesitation
I
will look into layers
of
memory
from
where unwanted results (2)
life
after life have sprouted,
and
now are yellow stale leaves
ready
to be detached from the tree
by
this wind of mercy.
My
heart will rejoice
when
finally Krishna,
seated
in my heart,
crushes
with His weight
of
sweetness
the
remaining hard-shelled
acorns
of pride, vanity
and
the stardom-me
then
with consciousness filled
with
devotion,
in
bliss and relieved
that
I, like the tree,
now
denuded of envy,
am
ready to sprout anew,
and
give happiness to Krishna
with
leaves, shoots, (3)
flowers
and fruits.
1)
SD 10.20.32-33
"... the fall season arrived, when the sky is cloudless, the water clear
and wind gentle.
"The autumn season, which
regenerated the lotus flowers, also restored the various bodies of water to
their original purity, just as the process of devotional service purifies the
minds of the fallen yogis when they return to it."
2) Literal translation of the
word "anarthas".
3) CC Adi Lila 3.63 " [...]His smiling glance at
once drives away all the bereavements of the world, and His very words enliven
the auspicious creepers of devotion by expanding their leaves."
