bhOgyAmrutam - 25. sarvaha

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25. Sarvaha

 

 

 

= One who is every one = sarati gacchati iti = The one who is spread everywhere,

the omni-present.

 

 

 

pASuram : TiruvAimozhi – 3-2-7 (NammALwAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam)

 

 

 

samanvayam : Lord Sriman Narayana has made everyone / everything as His divine

body. He is spread everywhere. In spite of that we are not able to recognize Him

and serve Him.

 

 

 

pASuram :

 

 

 

yennAnru nAm iruntiruntu iranki nenje

 

O Heart of mine, you keep suffering perennially.

 

 

 

meyn nAnam inri | vinai iyal pirappu azhunti

 

in endless births of struggle which are bereft of the tatva jnAnam

 

 

 

yenjnAnru mengum Ozhivara niraindu

 

Who is everywhere and who is the support of everything

 

 

 

meyn nAnacchOti kaNNanai mEvutumE

 

When will I reach that Krishna who is supremely radiant, being full of

imperishable knowledge.

 

 

 

Detailed Interpretation:

 

 

 

1) O Heart of mine, you keep suffering in endless births which are bereft

of tatva jnAna:

 

 

 

In this world, someone somewhere is always engulfed in pain and

suffering. Why? It could be due to the loss of a dear one or a dear possession

or it could be that they didn’t get their desired objects.

In reality, the one who is the most lovable – Our Lord Krishna is

present at all times in everyone’s heart. But we are devoid of such knowledge.

This body that we are in as a result of several bhAgavatApachArAs never allows

the generation of such a knowledge nor does it create any interest to go in that

direction.

 

 

 

2) That Lord Krishna who lives in everyone / everything without leaving

them, and who is the source of all the tatva jnAnam:

 

 

 

 

 

Lord Krishna has filled Himself in everyone / everything. He was

like that in the past, is so currently and will continue to be so in the future.

And so He is alluded to as ‘sarvaha’.

 

 

 

If our beloved AchArya is coming towards us in a car, we do not

say that the car is approaching us. We say with joy that our AchArya is coming

to grace us. We give prominence not to the car but to the AchArya inside it.

 

 

 

In the same way, we should cognize the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna

inside everyone / everything. We shouldn’t limit our vision to the body or the

soul that surrounds that supreme Lord. Seen in that perspective, everything /

everyone is Lord Sri Krishna Himself. Such a jnAnam is called the tatva jnAnam.

 

 

 

3) Will I be able to meet the Supremely radiant Lord, who is full of such

knowledge:

 

 

 

Our Lord continuously strives to create such a jnAnam in us and

relieve us of our grief. For this, He makes Himself totally accessible to us in

the form of our AchAryAs, by making them as His SarIram. Thus He always moves

around us with the urge to impart the correct knowledge. But, we fail totally in

recognizing Him.

 

 

 

Will we be able to at least recognize Him properly if not meet

Him in any of our lives? If that’s the case, when is it that we can ever meet

Him? It is possible?

 

 

 

The answer is – “Yes, Its possible”. The following slOkam

(chapter 4. SlOkam 42) of Bhagavadh Gita asserts this. It was the 13th SlOkam of

the GitA jyOti SlOkas selected by Our AchArya HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami vaaru.

 

 

 

tasmAd ajnAna sambhUtam hruth sttham jnAnAsinAtmanaha

 

chhiththvainam samSayam yOgam AtthishTThOthisTTha bhAratha

 

 

 

Because of a lack of association with proper AchAryAs (tasmAt),

you have developed ajnAnam. This ajnAnam has given birth (ajnAna sambhUtam) to a

doubt deep in your heart – (hruthstham samSayam) – Whether I will get the

blissful togetherness with my Krishna?

 

 

 

Now, cut (chitvA) that ajnAnam – with what? – With the sword of

knowledge graced upon by the AchArya (jnAnAsinA) and get up, rise to serve the

Lord who is in everyone / everything. You definitely have an inclination towards

acquiring such a jnAna. Your name itself suggests that (bhArata).

 

 

 

In this way, Lets serve that Lord – sarvaha who is in everyone / everything, who

is everything – And who is our Lord Krishna.

 

 

 

Enough of Lord Krishna and His greatness. We want a Lord who had actually shown

us the way Himself right…Then…

 

 

 

Today is Sri Rama Navami. Lets turn our attention to Our Beloved

Rama. That Lord, who led a life filled with stress and pain, just to show us an

ideal man’s life. A life which lays the path towards acquiring such knowledge

and which itself makes us dear to the almighty. A Lord who is full of only

compassion.

 

 

 

We see lot of heartbreaks due to the loss and seperation from

dear ones and the resulting pain felt by the heart. When our Lord descended to

this earth as Sri Rama, He was separated again and again from His dearest

partner – our beloved mother, once due to destiny, once to uphold the law of His

kingdom. He expressed His pain as though His heart was being cut with a knife

continuously and was bleeding.

 

 

 

His heart is the Heart. Its fully filled with love and only love.

Love for everyone. Such is Our Lord – sarvaha – for whom everything / everyone

is His SarIram. Everyone is His own precious possession. He cannot bear

separation from us. He cannot see the suffering of anyone. Suffering of any

person, is to Him like the pain in some part of His own body.

 

And if anyone can claim to be so, it is only our Lord Sri

Ramachandra. If at all we wish to be in anyone’s loving embrace, it should be

the embrace of our Rama. His heart is The heart which has felt the pain and

which understands our heart fully. When He hugs us close to His heart, surely

all our sufferings will come to an end then and there itself. That love in His

heart, which is highly contagious will find its way to our heart and we will

start serving Him with extreme love. What more knowledge is required?

 

 

 

At the same time, we should pray that one Rama avatAra was enough

and the Lord should not suffer anymore for our sake by taking such incarnations.

But the memory of that Rama should be always there with us and should deliver us

of all the pains and sufferings; The memory of the little Baby Rama, who has

come for us today and is waiting for us to lift him up and kiss Him. When He was

a little Baby that time, He didn’t know that He had to suffer so much through

out His life. He was happily sleeping in His mother’s lap and playing with His

dad. Lets now see to it that the baby Lord who has come to us today is not

subjected to any such pain again and lets take care of Him fully.

 

 

 

Jai

Sriman Narayana

 

 

 

 

 

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