Geeta Dhara – Gurukul

Bhagavad Gita sings:

आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् ।
तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी ॥२- ७०॥
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āpūryamāṇam acalapratiṣṭham
samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat,
tadvat kāmā yam praviśanti sarve
sa śāntim āpnoti na kāmakāmī (70)
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“As the water of the many rivers falls into the full
and
ever constant ocean without affecting its tranquility,
even so the pleasures of sense merge into a man
of
steady discrimination without producing any deviation,
and
such a man attains to the state of the most sublime peace rather
than yearn for sensual enjoyment.”
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The full and changeless ocean assimilates all the rivers
that flow violently into it without losing its repose. Similarly the man who is aware of the oneness of his Self and the Supreme Spirit assimilates all worldly pleasures within himself without in any way staying from his chosen path.

Rather than longing for sensual gratification, he aims at the achievement of the most sublime bliss of uniting his Self
with
the supreme God.
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Ravaging everything that comes in their way- crops,men and animals, and their habitations-and with a frightening roar, the violently sweeping currents of hundreds of rivers fall into the ocean with a tremendous force but they can neither raise or lower its level by even an inch; they only merge into the ocean.

In the same violent way sensual pleasures assault the sage who has attained knowledge of reality and merge in him.
They can impress on him neither weal nor woe.

The actions of the worshiper are non good and non evil:
they transcend good and evil.
The minds which are conscious of God, restrained and dissolved, bear only the mark of divine excellence.
So how can any other impression be made on such a mind?

In this one verse, thus, Sri Krishn has answered several of Arjun’s queries. Arjun was curious to learn the mark of a sage who know the divine reality:how he speaks,how he sits, how he walks?

With the single word- “ocean”-the omniscient Sri Krishn answers all these questions.

The mark of a sage is that he is like an ocean.

Like an ocean he is not bound by rules,that he must sit like this and walk like that.

It is men like him who achieve the ultimate peace,
for they have self control.
They who yearn for pleasure can have no peace.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

As expounded by most revered Gurudev. 

Humble Wishes!!!

Bhagavad Gita sings:

ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः ।
लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा ॥५- १०॥
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brahmaṇy ādhāya karmāṇi
sangam tyaktva karoti yah,
lipyate na sa pāpena
padmapattram ivā’mbhasā (10)
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“The man who acts,
dedicating all his actions to God
and
abandoning all attachment,
is
untouched by sin as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.”

The lotus grows in mud, but its leaf floats above the water.

Ripples pass over it night and day, but if you look at the leaf it is always dry. Not a drop of water clings to it.

So the lotus growing in mud and water is yet unsullied by them.

Just so, the man, all of whose actions are merged into God (this dissolution occurs only with perception, not before),
and
who acts with total detachment because there is nothing beyond to be desired, is unaffected by action.

Yet he is busy with the performance of action for the guidance
and
good of the ones who are behind him.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

Humble Wishes!!! 

 Bhagavad Gita sings:
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साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदुः।
प्रयाणकालेऽपि च मां ते विदुर्युक्तचेतसः॥७-३०॥

sādhibhūtādhidaivam mām sādhiyajñam ca ye viduh
prayānakāle’pi ca mām te viduryuktacetasah
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“They who know me as the presiding Spirit in all beings (adhibhut)
and
gods (adhidaiv),
and
in yagya ( adhiyagya ),
and
whose minds are fixed on me, know me at the end.”
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Men who know Sri Krishn also know the Supreme Spirit that animates all beings; all gods, and yagya. They, whose minds are absorbed in him, know the God in Sri Krishn, dwell in him,
and
attain to him for ever.

Sri Krishn has said that men do not know him because they are ignorant. But they who aspire to be rid of delusion know him along with God, the embodiment of perfection, the identity between him and the individual Soul as well as the material universe, and perfect action: in brief, the immaculate nature of the Spirit that dwells in all beings, gods, and yagya.

The source of all this is a seer : one who has realized the truth.

So it is not that this awareness is impossible to acquire. But there is an appointed way by following which alone can a man hope
to
possess this perfect knowledge.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

 As expounded by most revered Gurudev.

Humble Wishes!!!

 Bhagavad Gita sings:
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पिताहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः।
वेद्यं पवित्रमोंकार ऋक्साम यजुरेव च॥

pitāhamasya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahah
vedyam pavitramonkāra rksāma yajureva ca
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“And I too am the bearer and preserver of the whole world
as
also the giver of rewards for action; father, mother
and
also the grandsire; the sacred,
imperishable OM who is worthy of being known;
and
all Ved-Rig, Sam and Yajur.”
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It is Sri Krishn who supports the whole world. He is the “father” who provides, the “mother” who conceives and gives birth, and the “grandsire” who is the ancient source into whom all being also merge at last. He is worthy of being known as also the sacred OM which may also be interpreted as the Self’s resemblance to God (aham+akarah = Omkarah).

That OM (God) is identical with him and so his Self is fit for knowing. He is also the agent of the three parts of the observance of yog: Rig-adequate prayer, Sam-evenness of mind; and Yajur-
the ordained yagya for union with the Supreme Spirit.

He adds:
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महर्षीणां भृगुरहं गिरामस्म्येकमक्षरम्।
यज्ञानां जपयज्ञोऽस्मि स्थावराणां हिमालयः॥

maharsīnām bhrguraham girāmasmyekamaksaram
yajñānām japayajño’smi sthāvarānām himālayah||
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“I am Bhrigu among the great saints (maharshi),
OM among words,
the yagya of intoned prayers (jap-yagya) among yagya,
and
the Himalaya among stationary objects.
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Sri Krishn is Bhrigu among great sages. He is also OM,
symbol of the Supreme Spirit, among words.
He is the jap-yagya among yagya. Yagya is the Image of that special form of worship that enables a worshipper to be united with God.

In summary, therefore, it is remembrance of the Supreme Spirit and recitation of his name. When after having crossed the Stages of two kinds of speech, the audible and the muttered, the name reaches the stage of yagya, it is then recited by neither articulated speech nor from the throat; nor even in thought;
it then infuses every breath.

There is then only a surging ahead unceasingly with the vision of mind in God engraved on every breath. The rise and fall, ascent
and
descent, of yagya, and its different stages depend up breath.

It is something dynamic-a -matter of action. Among stationary objects, Sri Krishn is the Himalaya, cool, even, and immovable
like
the one God himself.
The immutable, even, and tranquil God is never destroyed.

He further adds:
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अक्षराणामकारोऽस्मि द्वन्द्वः सामासिकस्य च।
अहमेवाक्षयः कालो धाताऽहं विश्वतोमुखः॥

aksarānāmakāro’smi dvandvah sāmāsikasya ca
ahamevāksayah kālo dhātā’ham viśvatomukhah
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“I am the vowel akar among the letters of the alphabet, dwandwa among compounds,
the eternal Mahakal amidst mutable time,
and
also the God who holds and sustains all.”
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Besides being the first sound of the sacred OM,Sri Krishn is also the imperishable, immutable time. Time is always changing,
but
he is that state-that time-which takes one to the eternal God.
He is also the Omnipresent Spirit (Virat Swarup)
who
pervades and sustains all.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

As expounded by most revered Gurudev.

Humble Wishes!!!

 Bhagavad Gita sings:

प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीर्ब्रह्मचारिव्रते स्थितः ।
मनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्त आसीत मत्परः ॥

praśāntātmā vigatabhīr
bramacārivrate sthitaḥ,
manaḥ sanyamya maccitto
yukta āsīta matparah

“Abiding in continence, fearless, serene at heart,
alert and restrained in mind,
he should surrender himself firmly to me.”

What actually does continence (brahmcharya vrat)-celibacy-mean?

People usually say that it is restraint of the sexual urge.
But it has been the experience of sages that such restraint is impossible
so long as mind is associated with objects, sights, touch,
and
sounds which
inflame the urge.

A true celibate ( brahmchari ) is rather one
who is engaged in the task of realizing God ( Brahm ).
The brahmchari is a man of Brahm-like conduct:
a doer of the appointed task of yagya
that
leads men to attainment and ultimate dissolution
in the eternal, immutable God.

While doing it, the external sensations of touch and of all such contacts of the mind
and
other senses have to be excluded in order to concentrate the mind on contemplation of God,
on the incoming and the outgoing breath,
and on
meditation.
There are no external memories when the mind rests on God.

So long as these memories last,
the absorption in God is incomplete.
Currents of deviation flow through the mind, not through the body.

When the mind is wholly occupied with its adoration of God,
not only does the sexual urge but all the other physical urges also cease.
So dwelling in conduct that will take him to God,
free from fear,
in a state of repose,
and
with a restrained mind,
the devoted worshiper should surrender himself totally
to an accomplished teacher.

[Revered Gurudev Swami Adgadanand jee Paramhans]

Humble Wishes.
~mrityunjayanand~