Shloka 29
रक्षांसि तानि ते नादाः शिवास् तान्य् आयुधानि च गोविन्दासक्तचित्तस्य ययुर् नेन्द्रियगोचरम्
rakṣāṃsi tāni te nādāḥ śivās tāny āyudhāni ca govindāsaktacittasya yayur nendriyagocaram
Those fiends, their cries, the ominous portents, and even their weapons—before one whose mind was wholly fastened upon Govinda—slipped beyond the reach of the senses, as though they had never been.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Teaching: Devotional
Quality: revealing
Concept: When consciousness is wholly attached to Govinda, fear-objects and hostile appearances lose experiential reality and fall outside the range of the senses.
Vedantic Theme: Moksha
Application: Practice steady nāma-smaraṇa and one-pointed attention during anxiety so reactive perceptions do not dominate the mind.
Vishishtadvaita: Bhakti as a real relation of the jīva to the personal Lord, by which the Lord’s protecting grace overrides māyā’s fear-forms for the devotee.
Vishnu Form: Hari
Bhakti Type: Shanta
FAQs
This verse presents devotion (mind fixed on Govinda) as a spiritual condition in which hostile forces, fearful sounds, and even weapons lose their perceptible power and effectively “vanish.”
He frames protection not merely as physical defense but as the supremacy of Vishnu’s presence: when consciousness is absorbed in Govinda, threats fall outside sensory and experiential reach.
Govinda is implied as the sovereign reality before whom evil, omens, and violence cannot stand—reinforcing the Vaishnava view that Vishnu’s supremacy is both metaphysical and practical.