Grace is Eternal Devotion - - -

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To get the grace of the Lord is more important than to please yourself with the

worldly pleasures here, which includes fame. To please the Lord is more

important than to get the grace of the Lord. The sages tried to get the grace of

the Lord to save themselves from hell through penance. But the same sages in the

form of Gopikas tried to please the Lord even by going to hell by offering the

foot-dust to Lord Krishna. Therefore, the Gopikas are treated higher than the

Lord by the Lord Himself and the life of the Gopikas is more sacred than the

penance. Bhagavatham, explaining the life of Gopikas, should be the highest aim

of this human life. All the greatness of Bhagavatham is due to Gopikas only.

Radha, who even became mad in the love of God, stands as the queen of Gopikas.

Grace of the Lord indicates selfishness in us, whereas the pleasure of the Lord

indicates the sacrifice in us. Thus the final stage of Sadhana is only to end

selfishness and reach the climax of sacrifice

in the case of Lord. Some ignorant people reach the climax of sacrifice towards

the society, which is foolishness. Sacrifice to please your body and your family

is more important than to please the society and this is Pravritti or justice.

But the Lord is more important than your body and family and this is Nivrutti or

spiritual field. You must know both Pravrutti and Nivrutti and act according to

the context. Fully ignorant people of Tamas quality cannot know the significance

of both these fields as said in the Gita (pravrittimcha nivruttimcha).

 

At the lotus feet of Shri Datta Swami

surya

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anabebe57 <kailashana wrote:

" skywhilds " <skywords wrote:

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> Grace is Eternal Devotion

>

> Anxiety, illusion, suffering, separation and despair:

> These are but an Other's earthy glare> Another's shadow

> Shallow, violent, hastening stare.

> Such awkwardness as labors there,

>

> Under another's schedule

> Another's school

> Another's worldly rule

>

> But when inwardness retreats into its own timelessness

> There to find in Now the ever present of Eternity

>

> Such coupling deepening fraternity

> Beyond alienation, care and space

> Consummates in an undulating

> Cherished connubial embrace

>

> Whose total devotional finality,

> Is the oceanic dance of infinity,

> Whose mystical, transcendental

> Endless space and

> Pace

> Is Grace>

Gorgeous!!! grace bows to grace

in " Namasste " and " I Love You "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nisargadatta , prakki surya <dattapr2000 wrote:

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> To get the grace of the Lord is more important than to please

yourself with the worldly pleasures here, which includes fame. To

please the Lord is more important than to get the grace of the Lord.

The sages tried to get the grace of the Lord to save themselves from

hell through penance. But the same sages in the form of Gopikas tried

to please the Lord even by going to hell by offering the foot-dust to

Lord Krishna. Therefore, the Gopikas are treated higher than the Lord

by the Lord Himself and the life of the Gopikas is more sacred than

the penance. Bhagavatham, explaining the life of Gopikas, should be

the highest aim of this human life. All the greatness of Bhagavatham

is due to Gopikas only. Radha, who even became mad in the love of God,

stands as the queen of Gopikas. Grace of the Lord indicates

selfishness in us, whereas the pleasure of the Lord indicates the

sacrifice in us. Thus the final stage of Sadhana is only to end

selfishness and reach the climax of sacrifice

> in the case of Lord. Some ignorant people reach the climax of

sacrifice towards the society, which is foolishness. Sacrifice to

please your body and your family is more important than to please the

society and this is Pravritti or justice. But the Lord is more

important than your body and family and this is Nivrutti or spiritual

field. You must know both Pravrutti and Nivrutti and act according to

the context. Fully ignorant people of Tamas quality cannot know the

significance of both these fields as said in the Gita (pravrittimcha

nivruttimcha).

 

~ o ~

 

Very emblematic!

 

Regarding this pronouncement, my first impression is that one would

have to be well versed in an insular vernacular to fully comprehend

what some might call overspecialized jargon. Such code can be

cumbersome, academic, rigidly hierarchical and exclusive. There is

also an implication of gratuitous violence, both in the metaphors and

in the desperation of such words as " ignorance, " and " sacrifice. " The

identification of any quality, such as ignorance or grace, with any

entity, such as Lord, people or the body, seems an attachment.

 

Whereas, for me, grace is everywhere and anywhere, available to anyone

at any time, unconditionally and beyond any relationship to any

entity, whether mundane and mortal or celestial and divine.

 

Grace is gentleness made limitless.

 

Perhaps That is the very cleverly hidden homeopathic and self

destructing meaning, in the passage above:

 

First one protests against the seemingly external and unnecessary

tyranny, then one recognizes it as always having been one's own!

 

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