Beauty in Kṛṣṇa's Presence
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Kuntīdevī is requesting that He be, one can keep God always within one's heart.
We simply have to apply our mind and senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as done by Mahārāja Ambarīṣa.  Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane  ( Bhāg. 9.4.18 ). First we must fix our minds on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, for the mind is the center of all sensory activities. If the mind were absent, in spite of having eyes we could not see, and in spite of having ears we could not hear. Therefore the mind is considered the eleventh sense. There are ten senses—five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses, and the center of the senses is the mind. The  Bhagavad-gītā  (3.42) says:
indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ manasas tu parā buddhir yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ
In this verse Kṛṣṇa explains that although we consider the senses to be very prominent, beyond the senses is something superior—the mind—beyond the mind is the intelligence, and beyond the intelligence is the soul.
How can we appreciate the existence of the soul if we cannot understand even the psychological movements of the mind? Beyond the mind is the intelligence, and by speculation one can at the utmost approach the intellectual platform. But to understand the soul and God, one must go beyond the intellectual platform. It is possible to understand everything, but we must gain understanding through the right channel. Therefore the Vedic injunction is:
tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham
“If one is actually serious about understanding supernatural, transcendental subject matters, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master.” ( Muṇḍaka Up. 1.2.12 )