NBS - 5

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namaste,

 

N.B.S. # 5: [transl. of extracts from Deglurkar's Marathi commentary]:

 

The previous aphorism dealt with the positive attainments of one who has the

love of devotion.

The present one will state the negative aspects that a devotee overcomes ,

but a worldly minded

person cannot; namely, desire, grief, hatred, attachment, secular strivings.

Such love can sprout in one with a family tradition of it, or by the

initiation from a compassionate

Teacher, or one's own sincere dedication & perseverance .

Desire is inherent in the mind; when the mind is focused on the body, it

externalises the needs

and tries to satisfy them by obtaining those objects. Failure to get them

results in the agitation

of the mind. Such extroversion itself is the root cause of misery.

For a devotee, steeped in devotional love, cannot see inside or outside

anything other than the

loved one.

Grief arises out of separation from an object of desire. The sovereign

remedy for grief, as stated

in Ishavasya Upanishad, is the transcendence of duality:

" yasminsarvaaNi bhuutaanyaatmaivaabhuudvijaanataH .

tatra ko mohaH kaH shokaH ekatvamanupashyati .. "

Thus a devotee ever remains free from grief. What a worldly person grievs

for, becomes an act

of Divine grace for the devotee.

As the only desire of the devotee is the Divine, which is indestructible and

resides in one's own

heart, no grief can arise. In fact grieving for worldly objects is regarded

by the devotee as an

insult of the Divine. Grief pulls one into the past, and never lets one rest

in the present.

For a devotee, the grief of separation from the Divine is the source of more

intensity of love.

The all-pervasiness of Divinity leaves no room for the devotee to develop

hatred or envy.

In the words of the Gita: " adveshhTaa sarvabhuutaanaam.h ."

Satisfaction of desires involves contact of sense organs and the objects.

These are ephemeral,

with a beginning and an end. The sage does not get entangled in these.

The devotees' efforts get directed solely towards Divine works, and not for

secular or mundane

pleasures; as Gita puts it: "shubhaashubha parityaagii ."

 

[NBS #5 concluded]

 

Regards,

 

S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

----Original Message Follows----

"Ravisankar S. Mayavaram" <msr

shriimaataa

NBS - 5

Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:17:48 -0600

 

 

yat.h praapya na ki.nchid vaa.nchati na shochati na dveshhTi

na ramate na utsaahii bhavati || 5 ||

 

Having attained bhakti, one desires not (not even a little bit),

one grieves not, one hates not, one delights not, and one does

not get excited (or over ethusiastic).

 

Why so? A person perfected in bhakti attains sama dR^ishhTi and

samattva bhaavam. By sama dR^ishhTi one rises above the pairs or

dvanda-s like heat and cold, pleasure and suffering, etc. Having

realized that the goal of life is to contemplate on ambaaL,

bhakta does not give importance to trivial moods and useless

mundane ups and downs. One realizes that jagan maataa pervades

all beings and has no partiality or bias towards any being.

 

Please correct and post your thoughts.

 

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