Monday,
11 February 2019
Be
Conscious of the Divine
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The Speaking Tree , India | ET
By SWAMI
CHIDVILASANANDA
Fearlessness
is the first virtue Krishna commends to Arjuna in Chapter 16 of the Bhagavad
Gita. Janeshwar Maharaj, the poet-saint of Maharashtra, commenting on this
verse, says, “Of all the daiva sampatti, divine qualities, fearlessness holds
the highest place.” Isn’t it true that a person commits most of his sins out of
fear? Out of fear, a person keeps everyone at arm’s length. Don’t you tell lies
out of fear? Fear has many different shades and connotations.
It
thrives on misgivings. Spiritual practice weakens the hold fear exercises on
our minds and helps strengthen our love for God. It reduces the mind’s
agitation and encourages it to become strong.
To gather
all the fruit, one needs to be persevering. Bhartrihari said in the Niti
Shataka: for fear of obstacles, low-spirited people do not begin anything.
Ordinary people begin things but stop when the first difficulties arise.
But the
best of men, though repeatedly felled by adversities, do not abandon a noble
undertaking. There are also ordinary fears.
For
example, if you are teetering on the edge of a cliff, you experience fear of
falling. Now that is a good, healthy fear. If you are cooking and the fire is
burning very high, you fear to get too close. Overcoming fear does not mean
getting rid of the reflexes of the body.
Poet-saint
Krishnasuta wrote a bhajan about fear that says, “What fear could exist for one
whose mind is dissolved in the bliss of divine consciousness?” The Vedas
declare that all doubts dissolve when you realise the highest Truth, the divine
Consciousness.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from
the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Love of
God
We accept
God not because we really want Him, but because we have need of Him for selfish
purposes . Love is something absolutely unselfish, that which has no thought
beyond the glorification and adoration of the object upon which our affection
are bestowed . It is a quality which bows down and worships and asks nothing in
return. Merely to love in the sole request that true love has to ask.
It is
said of a Hindu saint that when she was married. She said to her husband the
king that she was already married. “To whom?” asked the king “To God” , was the
reply. She went among the poor and the needy and taught the doctrine of extreme
love for God. One of her prayers is significant showing the manner in which her
heart was moved: “I ask not of wealth; I ask not for position: I ask not for
salvation; place me in a hundred hells, if it be Thy wish, but let me continue
to regard Thee as my Love” The early language abounds in beautiful prayers of this
woman. When her end came, she entered into Samadhi on the banks of a river. She
composed a beautiful song, in which she stated thee she was going to meet her beloved.
Men are
capable of philosophical analysis of religion. A woman is devotional by nature
and loves God form the heart and soul and not form the mind. The songs of
Solomon are one of the most beautiful parts of the Bible. The language in them
is much of that affectionate kind which is found in the prayers of the Hindu woman
saint. And yet I have heard that Christians are going to have these
incomparable songs removed. I have heard an explanation of the songs in which
it is said that Solomon loved a young girl and desired her to return his royal
affection. The girl, however, loved a young man and did not want to have
anything to do with Solmon. This explanation is excellent to song people,
because they cannot understand such wondrous love for God as is embodied in the
songs. Love for God in India different from love for God elsewhere, because
when you get into a country where the thermometer reads forty degrees below
zero. The temperament of the people changes. The aspiration of the people in
the climate where the books of the Bible are said to heave been written, were
different from the aspiration of the cold-blooded Western nations, who are more
apt to worship the almighty dollar with the warmth expressed in the songs than
to worship God, love for God seems to be based upon a basis of “What can I get out of it?” In their prayers
they ask for all kinds of selfish things.
Curtsey Religion and its practice
But, if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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