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Source: The Hindu (http://www.the-hindu.com)

 

One can bind Lord by sincere devotion

 

CHENNAI, AUG. 28. Innumerable are the instances of men having

fallen from grace and being wiped out because of their arrogance.

Conceited as they are, they will not listen to reason and slight

even the genuine and sane advice tendered to them by wise men.

They will stick to their decisions not aware of the dire

consequences. A comparison of a person so proud and insolent will

be to that of making a dog sit on a throne. It will only pursue

its usual path.

 

How then can a person avoid retaining the quality of displaying

haughtiness? Humility can be cultivated by doing service to God

through various spiritual exercises like worship and meditation.

Before God, such sincere men, yearning to develop good conduct,

will realise their smallness. It is not that God wants a display

of lavishness while conducting such a process of submission. Even

a flower, offered with absolute dedication and faith at His feet,

will fetch His grace. Through devotion, it is possible to bind

the Lord making Him immobile. Other means to compel Him will

totally fail as seen by the action of a man with all powers at

his command, attempting to tie God-in-human form, who was in his

presence to advise and reform him.

 

Another aspect to be remembered while surrendering to God is the

affection with which offerings are made to Him. The food that is

placed before God should be pure as it has direct relationship

with the moulding of one's character. In the Mahabharatam, when

Krishna went on His peace parleys, He ignored the reception of

all rich people and chose to stay with one hailing from lower

class who showed his deep debt of gratitude for what God has

provided him. He was one who was aware that God's decision is

final and that all should abide by his order.

 

Sri Vidyadheesha Theertha of Palimar Math, in his discourse,

referred to the sudden reversal in the attitude of the Pandavas,

after the successful completion of 12 years of exile and one year

stay incognito. As Krishna was preparing to go as their envoy to

get them back their legitimate share of the kingdom, Bhima, the

valiant of all people, and Arjuna, the wise, talked of peace,

unmindful of the fact that they had taken vows to take revenge

against the culprits who had insulted them. Bhima had once said

that a lotus may bloom on the mountain top and the sun may alter

its course and rise in the west, but he could not swerve from his

oath of breaking the thigh of the sinner. Krishna pacified them

and said He could only try to coax the opponents but added that

it was not possible to expect good from the crowd of wicked

elements, who would not be amenable for peace.

 

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