Guest guest Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Priya atma bandhuvulaku Namaste, Sri Sri Shyama charan lahiri mahasaya used to say If anybody wants to understand Bhagavad Gita ---- one has to enter in to his own inner self because its not possible to understand the real meaning of Gita out side. Sri Lahiri mahasaya interpreted Gita to his disciples every day after experiancing it through his sadhana. One such sloka which is common to us all and which is wrongly interpreted is patram, pushpam, phalam toyam yome bhakhtya prayacchati Tadaham bhakktyupa hrutamasnami prayatatmanaha Normally we think God is asking us to offer him patram ,phushpam, phalam and toyam and we start offering him all leaves flowers and frui what does he mean by this? Does he really want us to do pooja with the above said things? if so why didnt he mention which leaves flowers and fruit are suitable for his worship Patram means leaf which represents our body Like a green leaf turns yellow fades away and falls down our body also wither away one day.God is asking us to offer this body to him. How can we do this? When a sadhaka gains victory over his Indriyas after doing some sadhana he forgets about his body and involves totally in his innerself. This is the first step Then comes pushpam which represents the beautiful vision a sadhaka gets or experiance in his kootastha This pushpam God is asking us to offer him. That means one should not be satisfied here and stop his sadhana Next come phalam which represents the Atma darshanam. when a sadhaka advances further in his sadhana he gets Atma darshanam.This is the fruit of his sadhana and Lord God is asking us to offer him this fruit Last comes Toyam[water or neeru] which represents the flow of prana in our body.How can anyone give this? Does Lord want us to take away our prana and offer him? Not at all.---- After Atma darshanam in his kootastha the sadhaka further travels towards sahasrara and when all vibrations of prana come to a stand still .This toyam or prana Lord is asking us to offer him.That is when a sadhaka offers his prana flow to Lord he is said to be in paravastha and automatically reaches the blissful state of satchidanad. This is the real meaning of patram,pushpam,phalam and toyam and most of us not knowing this are seriously involved in doing pooja with all sorts of leaves fruit and flower I see many women and men early in the morning go out for a walk and collect flowers fromm different houses[without house owners knowledge] for their daily pooja thinking that its a great act .First thing we all should remember is that its wrong to pluck flowers from somebodys garden for pooja and if one has no money to buy flowers just simple pranamam will do because every thing in this universe is His creation and what is great on our part if we offer him something that he has created? In devine love i remain kumari Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help./l/in//mail/mail/tools/tools-08.html/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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