JNANAPPANA to Improve Your Bhakti-Yoga ... ( Part 2 of 12 ) .

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Dandavat Pranams to Bhagavan Krishna and Vaishnavas ! ,

Introduction

To guide His Bhaktas, Bhagavan Krishna inspired His favorite devotee-Poet Poonthanam to compile "Jnanappana " ( Song of Knowledge) . The draft copy of this book was edited by, Bhagavan Himself .

The following Sloka # 6 to 10 , speak about different spiritual paths, Karma-Bondage , realization of Brahman , etc .

" JNANAPPANA "

( Sloka # 6 to 10)

Sloka - 6

For the understanding of different people ,our Vedic scriptures have stated many paths to follow .

Note : It is with a view to make the various types of people understand that our vedic scriptural books tell us about different spiritual paths .

Sloka - 7

For those who can selct the path,many a paths of action exist,like those that make one realize the veil covering the truth,or the methods of Yoga depending on one's own limitations .

But they are all of limited use because they are complicated .

Note : But most of these methods are difficult and unpleasant except for the very intelligent men .

Sloka - 8

In this rotating wheel of births an deaths,to teach us who get caught and toil in this wheel,those great God-realized men,have showered many a truth with grace ,

to attain salvation with ease .

And so all of you please listen carefully .

Note : Our Sages have provided us easy methods to attain salvation .

Sloka - 9

Please know first that the thing which ties us all ,is the `Karma' that we have done in the past .

Note : The past birth's Karma results in our present day actions . ( Karma-Bondage) .

Sloka - 10

Each part of all this world that we see now ,became only one form of an ethereal light during Deluge , with nothing attaching to it ,with it not attaching to anything .And for those spiritual seekers who search minutely one by one ,It becomes the `single entity' through which every thing is known.And for those whose mind flits and wanders,It becomes something unknown , similar but dissimilar to each other,but all together the spirit of the soul.And it seems was made by God, with all the three worlds as its parts.

Note : The concept of `Brahman ` , the eternal truth is introduced . It is a single entity for those steady mined men who realized it . However it is unknown and varying to those whose mind is unsteady .

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya!!!

SriKrishnaDasa Rajeev