Clarification on Bhagavad Gita 9:23- a correction

[Guest guest]

here is a correction to my post

 

i wrote

 

( Through the saguna worship of the six deities (SIVA, VISHNU,

SURYA, SURYA, GANAPATHI ) , our beloved advaita acharya Sankara

Bhagavatpada tried to establish the eternal truth that all the

deities ( in whichever form and name we choose - > our ishta

devatas) we worship are but manifestations of one supreme

> Self - ParaBrahman! )

 

THE SIX DEITIES ARE

 

1) SURYA

 

2) AMBIKA

 

3) SHIVA

 

4) VISHNU

 

5) GANAPATHY

 

6) SUBRMANYA

 

I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS ERRIR THAT CREPT IN !

 

THERE IS A GITA SLOKA I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO MY POST

 

Yo yo yaam Yaam tanum bhaktah

sraddhaya architum icchati;

Tasya tasyaachalaam shraddhaam (CH 7 , VERSE 21 )

 

REGARDS

Taam eva vidadhaamyaham

[Guest guest]

advaitins, i had quoted tis verse in my post but i fogot to provide

the translation ! incidentally, this verse also may answer Sri

mahadevadvaita's question on about faith in other Gods ( such as Lord

Shiva) rather than faith in sri krishna paramatma HIMSELF!

 

 

 

Yo yo yaam Yaam tanum bhaktah

sraddhaya architum icchati;

Tasya tasyaachalaam shraddhaam (CH 7 , VERSE 21 )

 

HERE IS SWAMI CHINMAYANANADA'S COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE FROM THE

ADVAITIN FILES!

 

" Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith --- that

(same) faith of his I make (firm and) unflinching.

In the very opening of this chapter (VII-7), discriminating the Self

from the not-Self, it was shown how Krishna is the Spiritual

Principle, the Common Truth that holds together the multiple universe

of names and forms. It was also said (VII-14) that the three-fold

mental temperaments (gunas), that work up the "divine illusion,"

hoodwink the individual from right cognition of the Divine Self

within him. But for the Conscious Principle thrilling the inert

matter walls that seemingly encircle the spirit, neither our

physical, nor mental, nor intellectual personalities can ever come to

function, as they do now. It is very well-known that all men do not

worship at the same altar. Each one approaches the same Truth by

worshipping the idol of his own heart. Krishna here declares the

sacred truth that in all Churches, Mosques, and Temples, in public

places, or in private institutions, in the open, or on the sly, in

the quiet huts, and in the silent caves --- wherever and in

whatsoever form, any devotee seeks to worship with Shraddha, "HIS

FAITH DO I MAKE UNWAVERING." A faithful follower of the Geeta can

never be contaminated by sectarianism or intolerance. At the foot of

every altar, it is Krishna, the Self, that constantly supplies more

and more faith to water the expanding fields of devotion in the

sincere devotees.

 

Applying this general statement to the subjective worship in the

human bosom, we can very easily understand the greater import of this

stanza.

 

In the world outside, it is very well-known that the greater the

consistency with which an idea or an attachment is maintained by an

individual, the greater does he become fixed in that temperament or

relationship. The more often a particular type of thought is

entertained in the mind, the deeper becomes that thought channel,

strengthening that very mental impression. These deep-cut patterns of

thought, ploughed along the valleys of the mind, indicate the pattern

of desires which the individual had entertained. In the law that

governs this psychological rule, we can spy and detect the Spiritual

Reality and Its infinite and glorious might.

 

In short, the Lord says that "as we think so we become," and the more

we become, the more we think in the same given pattern. Applying this

principle of psychology, it becomes clear, beyond all doubts, why

everyone of us is bound by our own habits, and how we get chained by

our own peculiar type of thinking. The sensuous are not to be

condemned, and equally so, the divine need not be congratulated! Both

of them are the exact products of their individual types of thinking.

Thought belongs to the realm of nature (Prakriti); thoughts create

the world and the all-pervading Self is the Essential Substratum

(Purusha) that provides the world-drama with its stage and scenario.

 

WITH THIS EVER-GROWING FAITH, HOW DOES THE MAN-OF-THE-WORLD GAIN HIS

PARTICULAR DESIRE? "

 

NOW , PLEASE READ VERSE 22 AND IT WILL BE CLEARER HOW FAITH MAKES LL

THINGS POSSIBLE .

 

REGARDS

 

vASUDVAM SARVAM ITI!