GG Verse 146 - Guru Gita grants freedom from disease

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Dear All,

 

Our verse today :

 

146. One attains life, freedom from disease, and imperishable

qualities for their children and their grandchildren through the

generations. If recited by a widow or any woman without desire, she

may attain self- realization.

 

Please help us to understand a bit more by sharing your thoughts/insight.

 

Many thanks to you all.

 

Jai Guruji ki jai.

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OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

a guess is this verse is saying that one attains life, as in the

opposite of death, or eternal life. freedom from disease, disease

is of the body/world, not of the soul. and imperishable qualities

are qualities that have no end, eternal, qualities of God. future

generations of a realized soul would also get benefits from this

knowledge of Truth. and it works for everybody. men and women.

 

maybe the verse means the Gita frees one from bondage, it liberates.

 

JAI MA

 

 

, Kali Kali

<kaliananda_saraswati> wrote:

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> 146. One attains life, freedom from disease, and imperishable

qualities for their children and their grandchildren through the

generations. If recited by a widow or any woman without desire, she

may attain self- realization.

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> Please help us to understand a bit more by sharing your

thoughts/insight.

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> Many thanks to you all.

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> Jai Guruji ki jai.

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Kalia,

 

I think the first part of this points again to the benefits of

treading the path of light. When the gurudeva becomes the caretaker

and the guiding force of your life, many things can (not necessarily

will) change for the "better".

 

Swamiji has discussed before, I think in reply to a question here on

the forum, about how our sadhana effects our family both after us and

before. I can't say I really understand this. I have only heard before

about how children receive part of their karma from their parents

before they are born.

 

I think the idea of the widow, amplified in the next part of the

verse, is that a widow, especially if she is nearing the end of her

life, no longer needs to fill her heart with the needs of husband and

children, but can fill it with God and Guru instead.

 

I have observed that, at their best, women have such naturally

beautiful hearts. In contrast to most men, who are more in their heads

and stomachs, women are capable of great compassion and selfless love

for others. This natural facility makes it easier for women, I think,

to devote themselves to God and Guru, to the exclusion of their

personal desires. As you know, though by no means easy, devotion is

said to be the easiest path to self-realization. The woman with no

other attachments can achieve self-realization through devotion to

Guru, and the path of the Guru (remember, the purpose for which we

recite is perfection in the prasad of the Guru).

 

Jai Maa!

Chris

 

 

 

, Kali Kali

<kaliananda_saraswati> wrote:

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> Dear All,

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> Our verse today :

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> 146. One attains life, freedom from disease, and imperishable

qualities for their children and their grandchildren through the

generations. If recited by a widow or any woman without desire, she

may attain self- realization.

>

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> Please help us to understand a bit more by sharing your

thoughts/insight.

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> Many thanks to you all.

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> Jai Guruji ki jai.

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> Discover

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Dear All,

 

Our verse today :

 

146. One attains life, freedom from disease, and imperishable

qualities for their children and their grandchildren through the

generations. If recited by a widow or any woman without desire, she

may attain self- realization.

 

Please help us to understand a bit more by sharing your thoughts/insight.

 

Many thanks to you all.

 

Jai Guruji ki jai.

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It is always so, Nirmala. One must be free from attachment and desire

to achieve union with God.

 

I have always liked Meister Eckhart's description. He was a sixteenth

century enlightened Christian (in case you don't know him). He said

that if you want to know the Father you must first empty your heart of

all created things (non-divine, desires, attachments). Though it is

very difficult to accomplish, he said that if one can completely empty

the heart even for an instant, God will rush in to fill it with Himself.

 

It seems to me to be a very practical, and beautiful, description,

based in personal experience.

 

Jai Maa!

Chris

 

 

 

, Nirmalananda Saraswati

<nirmalananda1008> wrote:

> It's interesting to note that one of the pre requisites for

obtaining the fruit of reciting is to be free from desire.

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> Kali Kali <kaliananda_saraswati> wrote:

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> Our verse today :

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> 146. One attains life, freedom from disease, and imperishable

qualities for their children and their grandchildren through the

generations. If recited by a widow or any woman without desire, she

may attain self- realization.

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> Please help us to understand a bit more by sharing your

thoughts/insight.

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> Many thanks to you all.

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> Jai Guruji ki jai.

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