Saturday, October 17, 2020

Gita shloka 3.2, ARJUNA SAYS: MY INTELLIGENCE IS BEWILDERED, 8th June

Gita shloka 3.2

TRANSLATION

My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively what is most beneficial for me.

PURPORT

In the previous chapter, as a prelude to the Bhagavad-gita, many different paths were explained, such as sankhya-yoga, buddhi-yoga, control of the senses by intelligence, work without fruitive desire, and the position of the neophyte.

This was all presented unsystematically.

A more organized outline of the path would be necessary for action and understanding.

Arjuna, therefore, wanted to clear up these apparently confusing matters so that any common man could accept them without misinterpretation.

Although Krsna had no intention of confusing Arjuna by any jugglery of words, Arjuna could not follow the process of Krsna consciousness—either by inertia or active service.

In other words, by his questions he is clearing the path of Krsna consciousness for all students who seriously want to understand the mystery of the Bhagavad-gita.

 

Friday, October 16, 2020

VRINDAVAN IS GREAT, वृन्दावन महिमा #Blog0033






Vrindavan IS GREAT, वृन्दावन महिमा


चैतन्य महाप्रभु जी कहते हैं: “अपने चरणों की रज कर लीजिए”

“अपने चरणों की रज कर लीजिए”
“उर ऊपर नित्य रहूं रमता, अपनी वनमाल का फूल बना दे
लहरें टकराती रहें जिससे, उस यमुना का मुझे कूल बना दे (कूल=Shore, तट, किनारा)
कर कंज से थामते हो जिसको, उस कदम वृक्ष का मूल बना ले (कर कंज (Lotus)=Your Lotus like hands)
तेरी चरणों को नित्य चूमा करें, बृजराज मुझे बृज धूल बना दे”

Chaitanya Mahäprabhu says :

either make me dust of Your feet
or
make me a flower of Your garland so that I am always near Your chest
or
make me the shore of Yamuna so that I am in constant touch with Yamuna waves
or
make me the root (
मूल) of kadamb tree under the shade of which You play and support it

or
make me the dust of ब्रिज so that I can kiss Your feet all the time.

वृंदावन धाम को वास भलो

“वृंदावन धाम को वास भलो
जहां पास बहे यमुना रसरानी

जो जन नहाए के ध्यान धरें
वृंदावन तिन को मिले रज धानी
वेद पुराण बखान रहे ,

बात यही सब मुनि मनमानी

यमुना यम दूतन टारत हैं
यम टारत हैं श्री राधिका रानी”

It is best to live (वास) in Vrindavan where river Yamuna flows nearby.

Whoever takes bath in river Yamuna and meditates on Lord, gets the right of staying eternally at Vrindavan - this is declared by all vedas.

Yamuna gets you rid of angels of death whereas Radha Rani gives you eternal liberation back home to Godhead 

(यम lord of death Yamraj, टारत - Yamraj cannot come to you who has grace of Sri Radha)  


वृंदावन में वास की वस्तुतः विधि क्या है

यही है वृंदावन का चिंतवन
“वृंदावन को नाम रट,
वृंदावन को देख,
वृंदावन सौं प्रीति कर,
वृंदावन उर ले”

What is the desired way of living at Vrindavan.

Thinking about this is meditating lovingly on Vrindavan, the eternal abode of Lord.

Keep repeating the name of Vrindavan by the tongue

and

think about Vrindavan,

love Vrindavan and put Vrindavan in your heart (उर)

This leads to you Lord's actual doorstep literally.

ये वृंदावन की महिमा है कि वृंदावन की सीमा प्रवेश करते ही सारा जीवन प्रसाद हो जाता है

भगवान का कण कण में होते हुए भी, वृन्दावन की महिमा है, क्यों, क्योंकि वहां पर वो प्रेम प्रत्यक्ष है

Though God is in each atom, Vrindavan is specially significant as God manifests Himself there

जैसे सबमें समान रूप से भगवान होते हुए भी, संत की महिमा है Although God is everywhere, but saint / bhakta is significant


वृन्दावन वृन्द कहत, दुरित (पाप,sin) वृन्द (a heap,a multitude) दूर (goes away) जाईं,

और नेह (love) बेली (creeper -that grows) रस भजन की तव उपजे मनमाहीं"

When you recite Vrindavan by love, your sins vanish by mountains & love in the heart grows for Lord


1 बार अयोध्या जाओ, 2 बार द्वारिका, 3 बार जाकर त्रिवेनी में नहाओगे, 4 बार चित्रकूट, 9 बार नासिक में, बार बार जा के बद्रीनाथ हो के आओगे, कोटि बार काशी, केदरनाथ, रामेश्वरम, गया ,जगन्नाथ आदि घूम घूम आओगे, पर होंगे प्रत्यक्ष जहाँ दर्श श्याम श्यामा के, उस वृन्दावन सा कहीं आनंद नहीं पाओगे


किसी ने थोड़े सरल शब्दों में कह दिया :

"मोहे मोर जो बनायो, तो बनायो वृन्दावन को, डार डार कूद कूद तुम्हीं को रिझाऊंगीं

बन्दर जो बनायो, तो बनायो वृन्दावन को, नाच नाच कूद वृक्ष झूरन दिखाऊंगी

भिक्षुक बनायो तो बनायो बृजमण्डल को, मांग मांग टूक (टुकड़ा) ब्रिजवासिन को खाऊंगी

कोकिला (कोयल,cuckoo) करो या कीर (तोता,parrot) करो, जमुना के तीर (नदी का किनारा)

आठों याम (24 hours) श्यामा श्याम, श्यामा श्याम गाऊंगी

जय जय श्यामा, जय जय श्याम, जय जय श्री वृन्दावन धाम" 


O Brother, Shri Vrindavan Dham is the real treasure. This Vrindavan is such a true wealth that even if you receive uncountable mountains of gold, abandon it and go to Sri Vrindavan and worship the ever-young prince of Braj, Lord Krishn  < click to read


While proclaiming the glory Vrindavan Ras (Bliss of Vrindavan), Shri Hariram Vyas (Shri Vishakha Avtar) says, My Mind only relishes the bliss of Vrindavan. I sacrifice myself on those who discuss the same with me. I have no interest in Vedas, scriptures and their long speeches which doesn't include Sri Radha Krishna's divine pastimes and Bliss of Vrindavan is not present. This Bliss of Vrindavan is not the subject of discussion but it is a matter of experience. One should consider the actual grace of Shri Krishn only when One meets the actual Rasik Saint who reveals the Glory of this Bliss of Vrindavan. Very rare and fortunate are the ones in whose hearts this Bliss of Vrindavan has appeared

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Gita shloka 3.1 PATH OF REALIZATION IS KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS, 7th June

Gita shloka 3.1 : PATH OF REALIZATION IS KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS

TRANSLATION

ARJUNA SAID: O JANARDANA, O KESAVA, WHY DO YOU URGE ME TO ENGAGE IN THIS GHASTLY WARFARE, IF YOU THINK THAT INTELLIGENCE IS BETTER THAN FRUITIVE WORK?

PURPORT

THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD SRI KRSNA HAS VERY ELABORATELY DESCRIBED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUL IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, WITH A VIEW TO DELIVER HIS INTIMATE FRIEND ARJUNA FROM THE OCEAN OF MATERIAL GRIEF.

AND THE PATH OF REALIZATION HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED: BUDDHI-YOGA, OR KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS.

SOMETIMES KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS IS MISUNDERSTOOD TO BE INERTIA, AND ONE WITH SUCH A MISUNDERSTANDING OFTEN WITHDRAWS TO A SECLUDED PLACE TO BECOME FULLY KRSNA CONSCIOUS BY CHANTING THE HOLY NAME OF LORD KRSNA.

BUT WITHOUT BEING TRAINED IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS, IT IS NOT ADVISABLE TO CHANT THE HOLY NAME OF KRSNA IN A SECLUDED PLACE WHERE ONE MAY ACQUIRE ONLY CHEAP ADORATION FROM THE INNOCENT PUBLIC.

ARJUNA ALSO THOUGHT OF KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS OR BUDDHI-YOGA, OR INTELLIGENCE IN SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, AS SOMETHING LIKE RETIREMENT FROM ACTIVE LIFE AND THE PRACTICE OF PENANCE AND AUSTERITY AT A SECLUDED PLACE.

IN OTHER WORDS, HE WANTED TO SKILLFULLY AVOID THE FIGHTING BY USING KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS AS AN EXCUSE.

BUT AS A SINCERE STUDENT, HE PLACED THE MATTER BEFORE HIS MASTER AND QUESTIONED KRSNA AS TO HIS BEST COURSE OF ACTION.

IN ANSWER, LORD KRSNA ELABORATELY EXPLAINED KARMA-YOGA, OR WORK IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS, IN THIS THIRD CHAPTER.