Taking Refuge in Gita
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Wherever I reside, it is God’s home; whatever work I do, it is God’s work; whatever I receive, it is God’s gift and the mother-father, wife-son etc that I am taking care off, they are all God’s people. Just as on getting married, the woman’s ‘gotra’ (descendants in an unbroken male lineage) changes, the husband’s ‘gotra’ becomes her ‘gotra’, in the same way, a devotee who has taken refuge in God adopts the “achyutgotra” (God’s lineage). Goswamiji Maharaj says - “Saah hi ko gotu gotu hot hai ghulam ko”(Kavitawali, Utter. 107)
Just like when one comes to know the weak spot in any limb of a wrestler, then the wrestler is bound to lose, in the same way, God too has a weakness. If one grabs hold off that weak spot, He cannot go here and there, He loses ! That weakness
is - Not taking the shelter of anything else besides God. In other words, with single-pointed, exclusive sentiments, taking refuge in only God -
Ek Baani karunaanidhaan ki |
So priya jaake na gati aan ki || (Manas, Aranya. 10/4)
Meerabai said - “Mere toh Giridhar Gopal, Doosero na koyi”| “Only God is mine, no one else is mine”. “Only God is mine” Everyone says so, but they do not say, “no one else is mine” - rather mother-father, brother-friend, family, wealth-possessions, knowledge, abilities etc. are also mine. They rely and take the support of something or the other. Just as when the king’s son, begs in front of others, then the king does not like it, in the same way, “jeev” (embodied soul) a fraction (part) of the sat-chit-anand (existence-consciousness-
When one takes complete refuge in God, then he cannot leave. However, he who takes the support of various others besides God, like money, power, abilities, class-stage in life, knowledge etc, then how can God protect him completely? Therefore God says - “Maamekum sharanam vraja” “Only take shelter in Me” However there must be that firm conviction and
determination in a “Sharanagat” that even if God does not protect me, even though he causes much harm, even if the body gets destroyed, then too I will only take the support of God. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu used to say -
Aashilshya va paadratam pinushth ma -
madarshaanaamrmahataam karotu va|
yathaa tathaa va vidhadhaatu lampato
matpraananaathastu sa eva naaparah || (Shikshaashtak 8)
“Whether He embrace me and makes me elated, or tramples me with His feet when I am clinging to them, or He does not give me His darshan whereby my heart pains in anguish. That eternal
sovereign Lord Krishna, whatever He wishes He may do, He alone is the source of my life, there is no one else.”
(to be continued)
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Date : 26th July, 2013 -
Date : 26th July, 2013 -
(Gita ki Sharanagati)