Narada Bhakti Sutra [1:5] Continued

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> [1:5] Having attained which (Devotion), (s)he cares

> for nothing, never grieves,never hates,never delights

> in anything and (s)he finds no urge or enthusiasm for

> sense enjoyment.

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Narada Bhakti Sutra [1:5] Continued :-

 

In the great glory of the Lord the Love-heart of the devotee

melts to become one with Him. Thereafter there can never be

any anxiety over anything, or ever can there be atleast a distant

chance for even a whiff of remembrance of the sense-objects and

their enjoyments.

 

The immortal devotees, the Gopies of Vraja openly confess,

 

"When we can't shift our mind even for a moment from our

beloved Krishna, how can we strive for getting any worldly

objects, or weep over things that we have failed to procure ?

Our minds know nothing other than Krishna."

 

The mind of the devotee comes to be so jealously occupied

by the Lord that there is no accomodation in it thereafter for

anything else.

 

Sri Ramakrishna tested Swami Vivekananda by asking him to

pray to the Mother for worldly prosperity, the Swami attempted

several times to obey his command, and when he was asked why

he could not, he said that the moment the thought of the Divine

Mother came into his mind, he lost all desires for worldly

prosperity, and hence could pray only for Bhakti.

 

`With my mind deeply immersed in the rare ambrosia of singing

Thy glories, I do not care for the Vaitarini (the river of Hell) so

diffficult to cross. – Bhagavatam 7.9. 43&44.

 

`What wise person would discard that enjoyment of Supreme

Bliss and revel in things unsubstantial ? When the exceedingly

charming moon is shining, who would wish to look at a

painted moon ?' - Vivekachudamani 522.

 

The Bhakta is always immersed in this higher joy, in which

The ego is completely absent.

 

As Plotinus says, `They are no more two, but one: the soul

is no more conscious of the body or mind, but knows that she

has what she desired, and that she is where no deception can

come, and she would not exchange that bliss for all the heaven

of heavens.'

 

The perfect person, having transcended the ego, comes to have

a type of non-attachment that is spontaneous, and not the result

of any effort.

With spontaneous non-attachment to the relative joys and sorrows

of the world, such a person is immersed in the bliss of the Divine.

Seeing everything as a manifestation of the Divine,

(s)he does not exert to promote self-interest, but works for the

good of all, wihout any sense of ego or of any feeling of external

compulsion, in a spirit of service to God.

 

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Swami Chinmayananda's discourses on Narada Bhakti Sutra

are used. The books may be purchased from the

Missions.

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Raghava