WORSHIP OF DEMI GODS GOES TO LORD
As this entire creation is super- imposition of Lord Krishna, meditation on Demi Gods is also meditation of Lord buy in a wrong manner as He is the ultimate enjoyer of all sacrifices.
Lord Krishna says in chapter nine of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Yeapianyadevta bhakta yajante shardhyanvitah I
Teapi mamev kontey yajantiavidhipurvkam II
Aham he sarvyagyanam bhokta ch parbhurev ch I
Na tu mamabhijananti tatvenatshchavanti te II
Yanti devandevvrata devanptrianyantiptrivaratah I
Bhutani yanti bhutejya yanti madyajinoapi mam II (9.23-25)
Arjun! Those who with utmost devotion, worship Demi-Gods, they actually worship me only with a mistaken approach.
I am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but not knowing me in reality, they fall.
Those attached to Demi-Gods go to those Gods, and those attached to manes go to manes; those who adore spirits go to spirits and those who worship me alone, come to me alone.
Why people meditate on Demi Gods?
The people attached to actions expect a quick result and scriptures have prescribed certain rituals to attain their purpose. Gods able to bestow these results too are narrated in Vedas. To attain material prosperity people get attached to those Gods.
Because of this attachment and desire they go to Demi Gods as per their attachments.
Lord is supreme self and not knowing this embodied souls again enter into cycle of birth and death after exhausting virtues.
Similarly those who are attached with manes and spirits go to manes and spirits respectively.
But those unflinchingly attached to Lord Krishna go to Him without any fear of transmigration
Lord has given an assurance in Bhagwad Geeta that those attached to him go to his servitude without any return to the material world.
It is prime duty of self souls in human form to serve and devote to Lord.
The way is not important, nor is form. One should understand that self of all is one, one’s faith may be different but it should be unaltered and unfettered.
Lord assures that he takes care of the welfare of devotees:
ananyashchintyanto mam ye janah paryupaste I
esham nityabhiyuktanam yogkshemam vahamiaham II ( 9.22)
The devotees, who in a disinterested spirit, constantly worship me, loving none else, ever think of me, to those ever united in thought with me, I take care of their security and needs.
Lord has issued an eternal guarantee to liberate the self soul attached to him.
Attachment with material nature in form of embodiment, mind, intellect, senses and sense objects is bondage and attachment with Lord Krishna is liberation.
Lord Krishna makes it that clear persons performing Vedic rituals prescribed for attainment of heaven, go to heaven and remain there for a good time enjoying the celestial comforts and with their fortunes earned from virtues, then their attributes being exhausted, they again come to earth in karmic transmigration cycle.
Those who are solely attached to lord, loving only him, all the time thinking of him, worshiping him in a disinterested spirit, united in thought with him are always in the protection of lord
The Lord /God Head / the Supreme Self / the atman, the self of universe, project this universe and he is the projected, maintains it and dissolves it.
Lord fulfils his devotee with his attachment where after devotee does not worry about his welfare.
Here welfare is not to be taken in worldly sense. This is assurance of self realization and freedom from every worldly misery.
Lord has not made us what we are. It is the sum of one’s own actions and attachment with them which has resulted embodiment and the embodiment has to undergo reactions.
Due to our limited knowledge, we always blame Lord to have created misfortune and problems for us.
But it is not truth.
Instead self soul has created every thing itself.
Embodiment undergoes reactions of previous identifications with actions in countless bodies already left by self soul.
In fifth chapter lord Krishna says:
na kartitvam na karamarhi lokasya srijti parbhu I
na karamfalsanyogam savbhavastu parvartate II
naadate kasaychitpapam na chev sukritam vibhuh I
agyanenavritam gyanam ten muhayanti jantavah II
gyanen tu tadagyanam yesham nashitamatmanah I
teshamadityavatgyanam parkashayati tatparam II (5.14-16)
Lord does not determine the doer ship or doings of embodied souls, nor their contact with fruit of actions, but it is the nature alone that functions.
Lord Krishna / Omnipresent Supreme Self neither receives sins nor virtues of embodied souls. Since knowledge is clotted by ignorance; hence being constantly falling prey to delusion.
But whose ignorance has been set aside by virtue of true knowledge of self that wisdom shining like Sun reveals the Supreme.
But if one in present embodiment attaches himself to the Lord, he assures to look after the emancipation of soul. As a father of all beings, Lord looks after everyone but he too has a preference to his devotee.
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