Sharing Sanjivani -Part 4

Chapter- (475) What is the gain of faith in Paramatma?

(475)

What is the gain of faith in Paramatma?

Lord Shri Krishna says;

मत्तः स्मृतिर्ज्ञानंपोहनं च(भगवद् गीता (15/15)

I am the root cause of all kinds of memories, knowledge, and APOHAN -all kinds of doubt in this Sansar. A knowledgeable person who has faith in my existence within his body and outside in every particle of the universe feels my company 24*7. He remains in Sansar as if a lotus lives in mud or water but remains aloof from it. Shrimad Bhagavatam declared;

सत्तामयं सारभृतां निसर्गो यदर्थवाणीश्रुतिचेतसामपि।

प्रतिक्षणं नव्यवदच्युतस्य यत् स्त्रिया विटानामिव साधुवार्ता ।।

(Shrimad Bhagavatam10/13/2)

A knowledgeable person who can differentiate good and bad in Sansar just as a swan can differentiate milk and water; he has the habit of feeling ME anywhere. His senses are devoted to me. His speech is full of Hymns, Mantras, and Katha Amritam. His ears listen to BRAHMANADAM everywhere his heart remains entertaining him with reading, reciting, learning, and meditating only on my Swaroop which he sees in every living and non-living. Just as a VIKARI person sees nuisance and entertains his senses in the company of various kinds of beautiful women and interested in them a devotee remains busy in entertaining his senses in Bhagavad Katha, kirtan, Bhajan recitation of mantras, and meditation and find my newer and newer Swaroop every time with a great untold exciting experience. Paramatma Swaroop blesses him. To this kind of devotee with pure knowledge of Brahma, Buddhi and Yoga helps him in controlling horses of senses roaming here and there and concentrate and meditate in स्वात्मा SWATMA as now he is enlightened with ज्ञानयोग GYANYOGA and his बुद्धि BUDHHI longs for Paramatma only. He even does not worry about salvation. In Ram Charitmanas Tulsidasji says;

अस विचारि हरि भगत सयाने।

मुक्ति निरादर भगति लुभाने।। ( रामचरित मानस-7/119/4)

These devotees have not studied Vedas, and Purans as Gopis, nor they served any great Guru nor did severe TAPSCHARYA nor observed fasting, nor performed VRAT as described in Bhagavatam for Gopis;

ते नाधीतश्रुतिगणा नोपासितमहत्तमाः।

अव्रतातप्ततपसः सत्सङगान्मामुपागताः।।(श्रीमद भागवतम्- 11/12/7)

They just be in the company of Paramatma 24*7, they feel Paramatma within their body and mind, thoughts and actions, and become Yoginis. When a child walks on the road or in the fair with his parent, he has no fear of getting lost on his way. In the same way, a devotee's journey of life, may it be; as a picnic or visiting fair and full of fun or may it be like standing on the war field and full of struggle and depression; he neither becomes happy nor sad, he just goes on and on and everything passes by him as if we see everything passing by from the window of a running car, bus, train on our planet.

We have seen that Narsinh Mehta is not worrying about his social obligations to his daughter and preparation for a wedding, he just requests Krishna to take care of everything. Mirabai was not worrying about poison in the given bowl to her by Rana ji as they have faith in God's wish

SAMVEDA MAHANAMNYARCHIK says;

विदा मधवन् विदा गातुमनशंसिषो दिशः।

शिक्षा शचीनां पते पूर्वीणां पुरुवसो ।।(सामवेद-महानाम्न्यार्चिक-1)

O, God! You are the only power of all the treasures of knowledge and prosperity. You know everything. Please guide me in all the directions so that I could go further in the right direction God! You are so powerful and full of strength. You exist in all the livings and nonliving. You create and you mar; hold and sustain. Hold us and enlighten our paths of knowledge so that we can fulfill whatever you expect from us by giving noble human birth. The faith that Paramatma is our only mentor and following him in all the situations of pain and gain, we can be fearless and our faith should remain unshaken.. When king Dasharath decided to abandon his kingship and surrender AYODHYA to Ramji, he went to his Guru and requests him to allow him to be free from worldly responsibility and fear of life and death.

राम होहिं जुबराज जियत मेरे, यह लालच मन माहीं।

बहुरि मोहिं जियबे-मरिबेकी चित चिंता कछु नाहीं।।

(गीतावली-अयोध्याकाण्ड-2)

If Ram holds the reigns of my kingdom, I could free myself for meditation but we love Sansar after retirement also; we want to earn money more and more to secure our family. This greed creates bondage and we cannot free ourselves from worshipping God. Though there is nobody in this world except Paramatma has shown miracles in everybody's life but because of our pride and ego, the consciousness full of I-me-my-myself does not allow us to have faith in him.

But when a person lying on the sickbed or on death bed, recalls his whole life and whatever he did for family friends and worldly pleasure becomes useless as nobody comes to his rescue, he realizes that he should have faith in only God and does not expect anything from any worldly relations and relatives.

आपन छोडों साथ सब, जब दीन हितु ना कोई।

तुलसी अबुज अम्बु बिन, तरनि तासु रिपु होई।।(तुलसी दोहावली)

A day comes in everybody's life when all his relations prove useless and when they abandon him in the hour of need as if they become his enemy, he realizes his mistake and then surrenders to Paramatma. All selfish worldly relations leave him because now he is useless just as we see; when water abandons lotus and ponds dried up, the Sun that is the source of energy for his life for lotus plant now becomes enemy of lotus and lotus burnt in the heat of blazing Sun heat.

Hence it is said that you have to trust only Paramatma. When Lord Shri Krishna asks Arjun that... when I am holding reigns of your chariot in Kurukshetra and I am drawing you as you wish, now you know that all the VIBHUTIES rest within ME, why do you want to know about everything. I feel it very surprising, to this Arjun says that though I am मोहोङयं विगतो मम...out of the illusion of Sansar and now I know that you are the only SEED, a particle dwells in everything but whatever you say about our self, do you really mean it? Do you really dwell in every particle of this universe? O, God! I want to see your divine Swaroop. This shows a lack of faith and a doubtful mind as it is a common human character.

Why do we not have faith or ready to believe even though we have seen miracles in every element, everywhere, every day and night; and still not surrender to Almighty?

Let us surrender to Jagat Guru Lord Shri Krishna to find out solutions to our questions...