UNLESS YOU MAKE SELF EFFORT TO KNOW YOURSELF - WHO YOU ARE, WHY YOU CAME HERE, GOD's GRACE CANNOT HELP #Blog0048

Unless you make self effort to know yourself - who you are & why you came here, God's grace cannot help

भगवान की कृपा तो सब पर है – भगवान अपने श्री मुख से कहते हैं : 

“सब मम प्रिय, सब मम उपजाए, सब पर मोहि बराबर दाया”

मगर जब तक कोई “अपनी कृपा स्वयं पर” नहीं करे तो भगवान भी मदद नहीं कर पाते.          

This is what distinguishes a devotee (अपनी कृपा स्वयं पर करते हैं) from a non-devotee (अपनी कृपा स्वयं पर नहीं करते हैं)         

If a utensil is kept in inverted position, open face downwards – तो प्रलयकारी मेघ भी बरस जाएं तो उसे नहीं भर सकते – then even calamitous clouds burst cannot fill that utensil

जिसने अपना सोया विवेक जगाना ही नहीं है, उसे ब्रह्मा स्वयं भी नहीं समझ सकते       

One who is bent upon letting its “Discrimination power” (विवेक) sleep only & wants to do whatever one’s mind chooses to, i.e., one is led by one’s mind ( जो मन करता है खा लिया, पी लिया, जहां मन करता है चले गए,....) rather than mastering the mind & be a mastermind, even Lord Brahma cannot make him understand about importance of Lord.     

“मूर्ख को समझाना सरल है, पंडित को समझाना और भी सरल है, लेकिन जो है तो मूर्ख, पर अपने आप को समझता है पंडित, उसे श्री ब्रह्मा जी भी नहीं समझा सकते” 

“कहत सुनत दशा हृदय नहीं आवे” 

you cannot appreciate the feeling of bliss of devotion only by casual reading or casual listening – you have to have sincerity of purpose for your invaluable human life  & seriously dive deep into the core of bhakti - to utilise the precious moments of our lives)

Unless a radio equipment "tunes" itself to a radio station or a TV "tunes" itself to its satellite signal or a mobile handset "tunes" itself to its "parent" station, how can the device work ? Not at all ,i.e., no device can work independently on one’s own. 

Similarly unless one "tunes" itself in accordance with signal of Lord, and tries to do everything on his own, is doomed.  

This tuning is to make self effort in knowing about oneself - 1. who is he/she  2. why he/she came to the world ,i.e., what is the purpose of his/her being sent to this world & 3. who sent him here.

Soul is constitutionally the supreme authority of body as designed by Lord but we let our mind, a lower authority, do its own bidding & control us. 

Mind is clueless & direction less, it ought to be controlled by soul through intellect’s discriminating power  (विवेक) but we do not awaken our discriminating power  (विवेक) – this is how we are led by illusion (माया) & waste our lives by going here & there & not in the proper prescribed direction of Lord.

इसलिए अपने आप का खुद पर “आत्म कल्याण करें”

Gita shloka 3.20, KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS PERSON WORKS TO TEACH THE PUBLIC HOW TO LIVE AND HOW TO ACT,25th June

Gita shloka 3.20, Kṛṣṇa consciousness PERSON works to teach the public how to live and how to act

TRANSLATION

Even kings like Janaka and others attained the perfectional stage by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people in general, you should perform your work.

PURPORT

Kings like Janaka and others were all self-realized souls; consequently they had no obligation to perform the prescribed duties in the Vedas.

Nonetheless they performed all prescribed activities just to set examples for the people in general.

Janaka was the father of Sītā, and father-in-law of Lord Śrī Rāma.

Being a great devotee of the Lord, he was transcendentally situated, but because he was the King of Mithila (a subdivision of Bihar province in India), he had to teach his subjects how to fight righteously in battle.

He and his subjects fought to teach people in general that violence is also necessary in a situation where good arguments fail.

Before the Battle of Kurukṣetra, every effort was made to avoid the war, even by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the other party was determined to fight.

So for such a right cause, there is a necessity for fighting.

Although one who is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness may not have any interest in the world, he still works to teach the public how to live and how to act.

Experienced persons in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can act in such a way that others will follow, and this is explained in the following verse.

 

SURRENDER COMPLETELY TO GOD WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATION #Blog0047

SURRENDER  COMPLETELY TO GOD WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATION      

निष्काम भाव से  सम्पूर्ण  समर्पण   
 

अब सौंप दिया इस जीवन का,   सब भार तुम्हारे हाथों में

है जीत तुम्हारे हाथों में और हार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

मेरा निश्चय है बस एक यही, एक बार तुम्हे पा जाऊं मैं

अर्पण करदूँ दुनिया भर का सब प्यार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

 

 

जो जग में रहूँ तो ऐसे रहूँ, जैसे जल में कमल का फूल रहे

मेरे सब गुण दोष समर्पित हों, करतार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

यदि मानव का मुझे जन्म मिले तो, तेरे चरणों का पुजारी बनूँ

 इस पूजा की एक एक रग का हो तार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

जब जब संसार का कैदी बनू, निष्काम भाव से कऱम करूँ

फिर अंत समय में प्राण तजूं, निराकार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

 

मुझ में तुझ में बस भेद यही मैं, नर हूँ तुम नारायण हो

मैं हूँ संसार के हाथों में, संसार तुम्हारे हाथों में॥           

 

 

Gita shloka 3.19, ONE SHOULD ACT AS A MATTER OF DUTY WITHOUT BEING ATTACHED TO THE FRUITS OF ACTIVITIES, 24th June

 

Gita shloka 3.19, one should act as a matter of duty without being attached to the fruits of activities

TRANSLATION

Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme.

PURPORT

The Supreme is the Personality of 

Godhead 

for the devotees, and liberation for the 

impersonalist.

A person, therefore, acting for Kṛṣṇa, or in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, under proper guidance and without attachment to the result of the work, is certainly making progress toward the supreme goal of life.

Arjuna is told that he should fight in the Battle of Kurukṣetra for the interest of Kṛṣṇa because Kṛṣṇa wanted him to fight.

To be a good man or a nonviolent man is a

personal attachment, but to act on 

behalf of the Supreme is to act without 

attachment for the result.

That is perfect action of the highest degree, recommended by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

Vedic rituals, like prescribed sacrifices, are performed for purification of impious activities that were performed in the field of sense gratification.

But action in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is transcendental to the reactions of good or evil work.

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no attachment for the result but acts on behalf of Kṛṣṇa alone.

He engages in all kinds of activities, but is 

completely non attached.

 

HOW WAS THE LIFE, HAVE WE EVER PONDERED OVER THIS? DID I MEET MY DESIRED OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE IN LIFE? #Blog0046

It is good to ask children “How was the day today?”               

For we adults, a more relevant & worthwhile question to ask would be : 

“HOW WAS THE LIFE”               

Did I meet my desired objective/purpose in life?               

Did I come to know WHO I AM & WHY I WAS SENT HERE IN HUMAN FORM BY SOME SUPER POWER - was it only for fun & मस्ती day in day out, having picnics / parties, was it for worrying all the time for kids education & their jobs, for our health, getting all sorts of headaches, body pains & viruses, was it only for eating, sleeping, mating & defending, getting old, diseased & die?                 

Or Did we miss connecting the dots…..?         

WHEN WE HAVE TO ATTEND, SAY A MARRIAGE FUNCTION, HOW MANY DAYS IN ADVANCE DO WE START PLANNING? BUT WHERE WE HAVE TO GO FOR EVER AFTER DEATH, HAVE WE THOUGHT OF MAKING ANY ARRANGEMENTS – IN ADVANCE ?      

Searching answer for this itself wakes up our “Discrimination” (विवेक) & more than half the desired objective of life is achieved.                 

All answers lie only in one word – GOD. We need to start “loving” Him & sooner than later, we get all our resolutions.                 

“देर भी हमारे यहाँ है, अंधेर भी हमारे यहाँ है”                

HE is always ready to respond PROVIDED we seek Him.                

CORONA TIME IS CAUSED BY NATURE ONLY FOR THIS PURPOSE – THAT WE PAY HEED TO THIS RADIX (MOST ESSENTIAL).