Sivaanandalahari -61

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ankolam nijabIjasantatirayaskAntopalam sUchikA

sAdhvi naijavibhum latA kShitiruham sindhu: saridvallabham

prApnotIha yathA tathA paSupate: pAdAravindadvayam

cetovRuttirupetya tiShThati sadA saa bhaktirityuchyate || 61 ||

 

Like the real seed progeny reaches for the mother ankola tree,

Like the iron needle reaches for the load stone.

Like the chaste woman reaches for her lord,

Like the tender creeper reaches for near by trees,

Like the river reaches for the sea,

If the spirit of the mind,

Reaches for the lotus feet of Pasupathi,

And stays there always,

Then that state is called devotion.

 

*Commentary

 

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‘Ya sarvEdEvaa: namanthi mumukshava: Brahmavaadhinascha ithi’ says the

Sruthi. It says that Everyone from jeevanmuktha to ordinary praaNi do

namaskaaram to ParamEswara indicating the importance of Bhakthi. Moreover,

Naradha Bhakthi Soothram says: ‘thrisathyasya bhakthirEva ghareeyasee

bhakthirEva ghareeyasee’ underscoring the importance of bhakthi. In this

sloka BhagavathpaadhaaL amplifies the siddhaantha of bhakthi, its greatness

and its swaroopa lakshaNam.

 

The seeds of angOla tree when they ripen fall on the ground and without

human intervention they race towards the tree. Likewise the needle is

attracted to the magnet by nature. A pathivrathaa gets behind her bharthaa.

A creeper seeks the nearby tree and hugs its way up. The river inexorably

reaches the ocean. In the same way if the mind without frittering itself

surrenders at the lotus feet of Pasupathi bringing peace and quiet to

itself, that would be the utmost Bhakthi. That bhakthi should be beyond

measure. This is the thaathparyam of the naaradha soothra:

 

'anirvachaneeyam prEmasvaroopam'.

 

That is everyone has this anirvachaneeya prEma only with his own aathmaa.

Actually it is the case with sakala praaNis. Even if he is a fool he will

have utmost prEma only with his own aathmaa. What we know from this is

that only Aathmaa alone is the substance entirely of Aanandha. A person

would not place his prEma on a vasthu that is different from aathmaa. People

give up everything when there is haani to the aathma.

 

(continued in 61 (2) )