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.
Monday, November 1, 2010
REAL RENUNCIATION
THERE ARE VERY FEW EMBODIED SELF SOULS WHO HAVE BLESSED TO SEEK LIBERATION FROM TRNSMIGRATION.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE ENGROSSED IN INSCRUTABLE POWER OF LORD KRISHNA ARE HAPPY TO BE IN THE DIRT OF THE MATERIAL ENERGY AS A PIG SEEMS TO BE VERY HAPPY IN A PIT OF MUD.
REAL RENUNCIATION HAS BEEN GIVEN IN SHRIMAD BHAGWAD GEETA.
Lord Krishna has stressed detachment of identification with body which is not real form of Self Soul.
Self Soul is eternal Consciousness. This consciousness attains body after body due to its identification with material body. It is the mind which creates a chain of non existing relationship. This thought of my being body is outcome of Ego.
He who performs all natural duties self lessly is atoned to liberation.
Lord Krishna says in chapter 6 verse one of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Aanashritah karamfalam karyam karam kroti yah I
sa sanyasi ch yogi ch na nirgnirna chakriyah II (1).
He, who does his duty without expecting the fruit of actions, is Sannyasi and Yogi both .But he who has merely renounced sacred fire is not Sannyasi nor he is Yogi who has given up activities.
Here is difference of renunciation.
If one does his duty without seeking a reward or fruit of actions, he is real renouncer. The embodiment itself is meant to undergo these reactions.
Lord Krishna says unambiguously in chapter 13:
Idam srirum kontey! khetrum itiabhidheyate I
Etadyo veti tam prahuA khetragya it tadvidah II (1)
Lord Krishna says that the embodiment is termed as the field.
And he who knows it, sages call it, the Knower.
Every embodiment, whatsoever is the shape, is actually a field through which the blissful self soul ‘jeeva’ pretends to enjoy fruit of his previous deeds.
(Self soul x three evolutes of material nature = action=fruits in form of joy and pain, happiness and sufferings x attachment and identification with actions coming naturally=birth, death and rebirth)
As a farmer sows seeds in a field, irrigates it, after a proper time, the fruits are obtained in the shape of crop. Some time, the divine destroys it by feminine or over raining or flood.
Blissful jeeva in the companionship of material nature appears to act and react, desire and hate and performing other pairs like these. Though it itself is actually an onlooker, its identification and attachment with those deeds actually carried out by three qualities of nature tie down him with these deeds and their fruits.
Despite being aloof and unconcerned, his perception of doer causes him an unending conditioned bondage. He is made to undergo, through identification, joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, happiness and distress etc.
The knower of this field is he himself.
Invisible but seated in this body as consciousness
As consciousness, the Lord’s eternal particle consciousness is the illuminator of the embodiment.
Sages discerning the truth about both, differentiate both in form of eternal self and material nature.
Body which is field is actually resulting of attachment with material nature. Self is eternal but it identifies itself with that material nature in form of body which he is not.
Self soul’s identification worth body is so grave that he percepts every worldly act to have been done by him.
It is like crystal clear and pure gem.
It adopts the color of the any of the three modes of nature and then goes on to identify with them.
It has then to undergo the fruit of attachment.
This is why this body is termed as field.
With the fruit exhausting the self soul leaves the body to further undergo the remaining fruits and gets another embodiment. Forgetting last body and its relations it develops another sting of identification with that new body.
But the embodied soul shunning sacred fire is not a Sannyasi nor is he Karamyogi, if he pretends to have given up actions.
One, who has given up desire to be showered with fruits of his actions, is real yogi.
It is particularly performance of duties assigned to embodiment on account of all previous bodies and identifications with their action done naturally.
Actions are supposed to be done as duty of human form, to attain liberation. Here in this form alone a embodied self soul has a option to detach with actions of body.
An embodied Self Soul cannot shed to act even for a moment. Lord Krishna says in chapter 18 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Na hi dehbhrita shakyum tyaktum karmarhi asheshtah I
Yastu karamfaltyagi sa tyagietiabhdhiyate II (18.11).
A creature having embodiment cannot, even for a moment leave action in entirety, but he who renounces the fruit of the action (s) is the man of renunciation.
Not only human being indulges in action but all the creatures are active all the time. Body itself is the result of attachment with three modes of nature. Actions are bound to come naturally. You have no control over them.
you never desire defamation but it comes, you don’t desire discomfort but it comes, you don’t desire death , but it comes at appointed time, you don’t desire loss but it comes, you don’t desire enemy, but it comes, none desires earth quake, but it comes, like wise all miseries come uninvited. Even one may have to leave this world without even a moment notice.
A flying plane crashes, who desires it? Every embodiment has to act as per dictation of its past deeds; they are not your actions, why to desire fruit from them. You have to get rid of this sin of identification with action and desire for fruit from them.
This is liberation.
You can achieve it just now.
Sit at a little distance from mind. Watch it playing!
Unbridled devotion to Lord Krishna, is culmination of every sacred duty performed without attachment and seeing sameness every where.
Yada hi naindrarthesshu na karamsuanushajte I
Sarvasankalapsanyasi yogaarhuastaduchayte II(4.)
When an embodied soul ceases to have any attachment either with sense objects or for actions and he has renounced all thoughts of world, he is stated to have climbed the heights of yoga.
See following verse of chapter 5 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
kayen mansa budhya kevalerindreyerapi I
yoginah karam kurvanti sangam tyaktvatamvishudhye II
(5.11)
Karamyogis do act through senses, mind, and body as well only for self purification, shunning attachment with them.
Ego and attachment with body are the feelings which basically bind soul with embodiment which is result of past deeds arising out of qualities of nature.
Human embodiment is meant for attaining liberation. The yogis shunning attachment altogether, act with body, mind, intellect and senses only for purification of self soul.
Karamyogis do perform duties resulting from past experience and undergo sorrow and happiness alike. The actions neither bind nor free soul. it is the desire and attachment which binds a free soul with different bodies.
Blessed with intellect a soul in human form can attain liberation by doing away with attachment. Devotion to lord in simple way is that desire for fruit of acts is no more and all acts which are occasioned by senses, mind and body are surrendered to lord.
Attachment completely banished from life span in a particular embodiment, detachment purifies it and pure soul leads to Lord as it is Lord Himself.
Lord Krishna has assigned the embodied soul easiest way to achieve self realization but the impact of his unimpeachable three folded power of material nature is so great that even liberated soul have every chance to fall prey of it.
yuktah karamfalam tyaktva shantimapnotineshthkim I
ayuktah kamkarerh fale sakto nibadhayate II (5.12 )
By offering fruit of actions to Lord a Karamyogi attains lasting peace in form of self realization, where as the ignorant not realizing himself bind his soul by attachment for fruit of acts by desire.
A Karamyogi knowing that he is not the doer and all acts are result of his past deeds culminating in embodiment and nature automatically causes action and reaction, sits without attachment and witness all actions with no desire for fruits of actions. thus whatever troubles befalls him Karamyogi takes them as predestined and he takes them as a blessings from Lord as they were due to attachment of actions previously done but whatever is done now he does not attach to them. Thus he enables himself to realize but ignorant binds himself by way of further attachment and desire for fruit of act executed by nature.
Senses, mind and body are the after effect of nature so whatever is done by these organs are caused by nature. So the soul embodied is free. It is only the mind which has attained non- existing attachment, it is the formidable mind which creates desire and the like: thence proceed varieties of actions such as satvica, rajas and tamsa and these leads to rebirth in accordance with them.
But if done without desire and attachment they result in liberation.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE ENGROSSED IN INSCRUTABLE POWER OF LORD KRISHNA ARE HAPPY TO BE IN THE DIRT OF THE MATERIAL ENERGY AS A PIG SEEMS TO BE VERY HAPPY IN A PIT OF MUD.
REAL RENUNCIATION HAS BEEN GIVEN IN SHRIMAD BHAGWAD GEETA.
Lord Krishna has stressed detachment of identification with body which is not real form of Self Soul.
Self Soul is eternal Consciousness. This consciousness attains body after body due to its identification with material body. It is the mind which creates a chain of non existing relationship. This thought of my being body is outcome of Ego.
He who performs all natural duties self lessly is atoned to liberation.
Lord Krishna says in chapter 6 verse one of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Aanashritah karamfalam karyam karam kroti yah I
sa sanyasi ch yogi ch na nirgnirna chakriyah II (1).
He, who does his duty without expecting the fruit of actions, is Sannyasi and Yogi both .But he who has merely renounced sacred fire is not Sannyasi nor he is Yogi who has given up activities.
Here is difference of renunciation.
If one does his duty without seeking a reward or fruit of actions, he is real renouncer. The embodiment itself is meant to undergo these reactions.
Lord Krishna says unambiguously in chapter 13:
Idam srirum kontey! khetrum itiabhidheyate I
Etadyo veti tam prahuA khetragya it tadvidah II (1)
Lord Krishna says that the embodiment is termed as the field.
And he who knows it, sages call it, the Knower.
Every embodiment, whatsoever is the shape, is actually a field through which the blissful self soul ‘jeeva’ pretends to enjoy fruit of his previous deeds.
(Self soul x three evolutes of material nature = action=fruits in form of joy and pain, happiness and sufferings x attachment and identification with actions coming naturally=birth, death and rebirth)
As a farmer sows seeds in a field, irrigates it, after a proper time, the fruits are obtained in the shape of crop. Some time, the divine destroys it by feminine or over raining or flood.
Blissful jeeva in the companionship of material nature appears to act and react, desire and hate and performing other pairs like these. Though it itself is actually an onlooker, its identification and attachment with those deeds actually carried out by three qualities of nature tie down him with these deeds and their fruits.
Despite being aloof and unconcerned, his perception of doer causes him an unending conditioned bondage. He is made to undergo, through identification, joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, happiness and distress etc.
The knower of this field is he himself.
Invisible but seated in this body as consciousness
As consciousness, the Lord’s eternal particle consciousness is the illuminator of the embodiment.
Sages discerning the truth about both, differentiate both in form of eternal self and material nature.
Body which is field is actually resulting of attachment with material nature. Self is eternal but it identifies itself with that material nature in form of body which he is not.
Self soul’s identification worth body is so grave that he percepts every worldly act to have been done by him.
It is like crystal clear and pure gem.
It adopts the color of the any of the three modes of nature and then goes on to identify with them.
It has then to undergo the fruit of attachment.
This is why this body is termed as field.
With the fruit exhausting the self soul leaves the body to further undergo the remaining fruits and gets another embodiment. Forgetting last body and its relations it develops another sting of identification with that new body.
But the embodied soul shunning sacred fire is not a Sannyasi nor is he Karamyogi, if he pretends to have given up actions.
One, who has given up desire to be showered with fruits of his actions, is real yogi.
It is particularly performance of duties assigned to embodiment on account of all previous bodies and identifications with their action done naturally.
Actions are supposed to be done as duty of human form, to attain liberation. Here in this form alone a embodied self soul has a option to detach with actions of body.
An embodied Self Soul cannot shed to act even for a moment. Lord Krishna says in chapter 18 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Na hi dehbhrita shakyum tyaktum karmarhi asheshtah I
Yastu karamfaltyagi sa tyagietiabhdhiyate II (18.11).
A creature having embodiment cannot, even for a moment leave action in entirety, but he who renounces the fruit of the action (s) is the man of renunciation.
Not only human being indulges in action but all the creatures are active all the time. Body itself is the result of attachment with three modes of nature. Actions are bound to come naturally. You have no control over them.
you never desire defamation but it comes, you don’t desire discomfort but it comes, you don’t desire death , but it comes at appointed time, you don’t desire loss but it comes, you don’t desire enemy, but it comes, none desires earth quake, but it comes, like wise all miseries come uninvited. Even one may have to leave this world without even a moment notice.
A flying plane crashes, who desires it? Every embodiment has to act as per dictation of its past deeds; they are not your actions, why to desire fruit from them. You have to get rid of this sin of identification with action and desire for fruit from them.
This is liberation.
You can achieve it just now.
Sit at a little distance from mind. Watch it playing!
Unbridled devotion to Lord Krishna, is culmination of every sacred duty performed without attachment and seeing sameness every where.
Yada hi naindrarthesshu na karamsuanushajte I
Sarvasankalapsanyasi yogaarhuastaduchayte II(4.)
When an embodied soul ceases to have any attachment either with sense objects or for actions and he has renounced all thoughts of world, he is stated to have climbed the heights of yoga.
See following verse of chapter 5 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
kayen mansa budhya kevalerindreyerapi I
yoginah karam kurvanti sangam tyaktvatamvishudhye II
(5.11)
Karamyogis do act through senses, mind, and body as well only for self purification, shunning attachment with them.
Ego and attachment with body are the feelings which basically bind soul with embodiment which is result of past deeds arising out of qualities of nature.
Human embodiment is meant for attaining liberation. The yogis shunning attachment altogether, act with body, mind, intellect and senses only for purification of self soul.
Karamyogis do perform duties resulting from past experience and undergo sorrow and happiness alike. The actions neither bind nor free soul. it is the desire and attachment which binds a free soul with different bodies.
Blessed with intellect a soul in human form can attain liberation by doing away with attachment. Devotion to lord in simple way is that desire for fruit of acts is no more and all acts which are occasioned by senses, mind and body are surrendered to lord.
Attachment completely banished from life span in a particular embodiment, detachment purifies it and pure soul leads to Lord as it is Lord Himself.
Lord Krishna has assigned the embodied soul easiest way to achieve self realization but the impact of his unimpeachable three folded power of material nature is so great that even liberated soul have every chance to fall prey of it.
yuktah karamfalam tyaktva shantimapnotineshthkim I
ayuktah kamkarerh fale sakto nibadhayate II (5.12 )
By offering fruit of actions to Lord a Karamyogi attains lasting peace in form of self realization, where as the ignorant not realizing himself bind his soul by attachment for fruit of acts by desire.
A Karamyogi knowing that he is not the doer and all acts are result of his past deeds culminating in embodiment and nature automatically causes action and reaction, sits without attachment and witness all actions with no desire for fruits of actions. thus whatever troubles befalls him Karamyogi takes them as predestined and he takes them as a blessings from Lord as they were due to attachment of actions previously done but whatever is done now he does not attach to them. Thus he enables himself to realize but ignorant binds himself by way of further attachment and desire for fruit of act executed by nature.
Senses, mind and body are the after effect of nature so whatever is done by these organs are caused by nature. So the soul embodied is free. It is only the mind which has attained non- existing attachment, it is the formidable mind which creates desire and the like: thence proceed varieties of actions such as satvica, rajas and tamsa and these leads to rebirth in accordance with them.
But if done without desire and attachment they result in liberation.
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