Guest guest Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Namaste Sadhakas, Here is a link Swami Vivekananda's poem 'The Song of the Sannyasin'. This poem brings out the spirit of a sannyasin's life. http://www.ariseawake.com/poems/TheSongoftheSannyasin.html Pranams, subbu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Namaste Subbuji, What an inspiring poem! "Few only know the truth. The rest will hate And laugh at thee, great one; but pay no heed. Go thou, the free, from place to place, and help Them out of darkness, Maya’s veil. Without The fear of pain or search for pleasure, go Beyond them both, Sannyasin bold! Say – ‘Om tat sat, Om!’ " Bhagavadgita ch 5.3 j~neyaH sa nityasannyAsi yo na dveShTi na ka~NXati. nirdvandvo hi mahAbAho sukham bandhAt pramucyate. The person who neither hates nor longs for anything should be known as a sannyasi. O Arjuna because one who is free from the opposites ( like and dislikes) is effortlessly released. The adjective nitya is added to the word sannyasi. Nitya does not mean eternal sannyasi. It means a person who is a sannyasi always, as apposed to some one who is a sannyasi at times and sometimes not. To certain things in life we are nithya sannyasis because we have grown out of them, though they were the loved ones for us at some ponit of time. like tricycles, balloons, marbles. cotton candies,dolls, dinky toys etc. we no longer think about them. Supposing a person had to give up a job, or some position he/she has been holding, and he /she keeps talking about it often, that means he/she has not given up the job or the position in the mind. The attachment is still being held on and not grown out of it. It is still continuing to remain in the mind and bothers the person. As long as there are things/ objects which include relationships too, without which one cannot live, then one cannot be a sannyasi at all. This is raga. There are some objects/ people/situations, we want to run away from or escape or avoid, as, we dont want to face or confront because of dislikes, then one cannot be a sannyasi. This only enhances the weakness in the person. This due to dvesha. A person who has grown out of both these likes and dislikes has neither hatred nor longing for these objects. Such a person can be a nitya sannyasi, who is not bound by the ragas and dveshas, that is he is not under the spell of his likes and dislikes. Not affected by the prescence or abscence of a thing , neither overwhelmed nor there is fear. A nitya sannyasi is one who has self knowledge and completely free from raga and dveshas. " Sannyasin bold"- The inner preparedness or inner maturity characterises the sannyasi. He is one who can live with himeself and pursue j~nana to the exclusion of everything else in the world. This requires courage and boldness to give up everything else in the world. If he is excluding everything else in the world, what, and whom does he have to comepete with? What has he got to be afraid of? What a state of joy! om namo narayanaya Lakshmi Muthuswamy Talk is cheap. Use Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 advaitin, Lakshmi Muthuswamy <lakmuthu wrote: > > Bhagavadgita ch 5.3 > > j~neyaH sa nityasannyAsi yo na dveShTi na ka~NXati. > nirdvandvo hi mahAbAho sukham bandhAt pramucyate. > > The person who neither hates nor longs for anything should be known as a sannyasi. O Arjuna because one who is free from the opposites ( like and dislikes) is effortlessly released. Namaste Madam, Thank you for that very nice post on nithya sannyasi. While reading the posts on sannyasa these days, i had been thinking of this crisp and profound definition of sannyasi in the Gita. You have expounded it so very well. There is a saying, 'nivritta raagasya griham tapovanam'. Only he who is free from dvesha and raaga can be a true sannyasi. When these two are not there any ashrama is fine for atma sadhana. The formal sannyasa ashrama helps a lot by avoiding occasions for raga and dvesha. For it is also said: prakshaalanaat hi pankasya dooraat asparshanam varam' = it is better to avoid getting besmirched by dirt than later doing the elaborate washing. Pranams, subbu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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