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Jai Srimannarayana to all devotees!

 

(Taken from Sriman T.P. Ramachandracharya's 'Manasu - Maata')

 

Our elders say we should do ‘Sathvika thyaaga” before doing any karma either it

is nithya karma or naimitthika karma.

 

We daily recite before doing our daily worship -

 

“Swashe:shabhuthena mayaa sweeyaih sarva parichchadaih

vidhaathum preethamathmaanam devah prakramathe: swayam.”

 

I belong to Him alone and I am at His disposal to be used by Him the way He

wants to, and with the things which are His, Bhagavan is getting the

aara:dhana done by me for His ‘preethi’. The derived ‘preethi’ is His, tools are

His, we – who are doing the worship – are His possessions. What is there that

is ours or for our sake in this? Everything is His. Everything is for Him. So

whatever you do as an offering to Him is not binding on your part. What all we

do is on Bhagavan’s command. What all we do is as Bhagavan’s service. What all

we do is for Bhagavan’s happiness.

 

We should know this secret and do whatever we do.

 

In Bhagavat Gita Bhagavan said

‘Yathkaro:shi, yadaSna:si, yajjuho:shi, dadaasi yath,

yatthapasyasi, Kounthe:ya! Thathkurushva, madarpaNam.

 

Arjuna whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever offerings you make to the

fire, whatever you offer to whomever, whatever penance you do – you offer all

that to Me.

 

Here Swami says ‘I will take you to the right perfect place you have to reach

without getting you entangled in bondages, without letting you fall into the

swirling depths of whirlwinds, without allowing you sink into the abysses. It is

my responsibility. Why do you doubt?”

 

The same thing had been said by Vedaantha Desika in the manthra which had been

in practice during his time

‘yathkaro:mi yadaSnaami

yajjuho:mi dadaamiyath

yatthapasyaami govinda !

thathkaro:mi thvadarpaNam.

 

For those who are too delicate to utter even this much here are the powerful

words.

‘sarvam srikrishNaarpaNa masthu!’

 

Let us all cultivate the habit of saying this. Repeat once again.

‘SARVAM SRIKRISHNAARPANAMASTHU’

Jai Srimannarayana!

Ramanujadaasi.