The Easily Attainable "Bhakti" (Devotion and Love of God)
( Bhakti ki Sulabhtaa )
( Bhakti ki Sulabhtaa )
Shree Hari
(continued)
Now if you see that throughout the Gita the "sulabh" (easy path) has come only at this very place in Gita 8/14. The main point is one and only and that is with exclusive sentiments, constantly think of God. You may say that the God who is easily attainable simply by His constant remembrance, how can thinking about Him take place without knowledge of what He looks like ? The answer to that is that till today whatever has been read, heard and understood regarding the Form of God from the scriptures, according to that form and in that very form having devout faith, taking refuge in Him, you must very quickly begin to recite and contemplate on His glorious, eternally purifying Name and His divine and auspicious form. And you must have unflinching faith that on the subject of His form, whatever errors there are in us, in knowing Him, that the compassionate, eternal well-wisher God will most certainly give his entire understanding to us and make us complete, just as God Himself says in the Gita -
teshaamevaanukampaarthamahamgyaannajam tamah |
naashyaamyaatmabhaavastho gyaanadeepen bhaasvataa || (Gita 10/11)
"Such devotees, being part of My existence, receive My divine grace which destroys the darkness of ignorance with the help of light of Knowledge."
In this manner, for the ever devout, the eternal Lord, will provide gain and security. Bhajan is that in which implicit reliance "sevan" on God takes places and that implicit reliance is great which is done lovingly. The implicit reliance on God is possible lovingly and in suitable form when we have a strong sense of "mineness" (apnaapan) with Him, and that sense of mineness with the Lord takes place when we have no relationship or feeling of mineness with any worldly object.
In fact, think and see for yourself, then you will come to know that besides God there is no one else who is ours; because besides God all the things in Nature that can be seen, heard and known, are all constantly leaving us, in other words, they are being destroyed.
Therefore Saint Kabirji Maharaj said -
Din Din chaadyaa jaat hai, taason kisaa saneh |
Kah kabir dahkyaa bahut gunmay gandi deha ||
Therefore, do not regard anyone else as your own, only remembering the Lord, with love and with exclusive sentiments, is an important and easy spiritual discipline. (to be continued)
teshaamevaanukampaarthamahamgyaannajam tamah |
naashyaamyaatmabhaavastho gyaanadeepen bhaasvataa || (Gita 10/11)
"Such devotees, being part of My existence, receive My divine grace which destroys the darkness of ignorance with the help of light of Knowledge."
In this manner, for the ever devout, the eternal Lord, will provide gain and security. Bhajan is that in which implicit reliance "sevan" on God takes places and that implicit reliance is great which is done lovingly. The implicit reliance on God is possible lovingly and in suitable form when we have a strong sense of "mineness" (apnaapan) with Him, and that sense of mineness with the Lord takes place when we have no relationship or feeling of mineness with any worldly object.
In fact, think and see for yourself, then you will come to know that besides God there is no one else who is ours; because besides God all the things in Nature that can be seen, heard and known, are all constantly leaving us, in other words, they are being destroyed.
Therefore Saint Kabirji Maharaj said -
Din Din chaadyaa jaat hai, taason kisaa saneh |
Kah kabir dahkyaa bahut gunmay gandi deha ||
Therefore, do not regard anyone else as your own, only remembering the Lord, with love and with exclusive sentiments, is an important and easy spiritual discipline. (to be continued)
From book in Hindi " Ekai Saadhe, Sab Sadhai" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
Ram Ram
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