Saturday, February 6, 2010

Prayer

My dear Krishna,

I am only Yours.

I am  living only in Your house. 
Whatever I do, I do it for You.
Whatever I have is Yours.
I use Your things in Your children's service.

त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव, त्वमेव बंधू च पिता त्वमेव
त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव, त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव.
Tvameva Maata ca Pitaa tvameva
Tvameva Bandhusca sakha tvameva
Tvameva Vidyaa dravinam tvameva
Tvameva Sarvam mama devadeva 
My dear Bhagvan Krishna! You are my mother, father, brother, sister, friend, teacher, maintainer, protector and my dear Bhagavan. You are everything for me and I am completely dependent upon You. You are mine  and I am Yours! 
सिय राममय सब जग जानी करहु प्रणाम जोरी जुगपनी 
Siya Ram mai sab jag jaani; karahu pranaam jori jugpani 
My dear Bhagvan Ram! Seeing this world as Your form, I offer pranams with folded hands. You reside in my and everyone's heart. Please give me vision so that I can see You in every living entity and objects. With such equal vision, I will see good and bad people equally as they are all part of You. Please remove the faults of rivalry, jealousy and envy as I am supposed to see You in everyone. How can I be jealous or think bad of others if You are in them! Give me strength and ability to serve and help You in form of people around me.
Tvadiya vastu govindam tubhymeva samarpaye
त्वदीय वस्तु गोविंदं तुभ्यमेव समर्पये.
Whatever I do, I do it for You. I offer everything to You. Whatever things I have are actually Yours. I want to use Your things in Your service.
My dear Bhagvan Ram! I want to remember You all the time. May I never forget You! May I remember You all the time! Please help me remember You while I am doing my activities.
सर्वे भवंतु  सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु माँ कश्चिद दुःख भाग्भवेत.
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niraamayaa.
Sarve Bhadraani Pashyantu, Maa kascchid Dukh bhaagbhevet 
May everyone be happy and healthy! May everyone see the truth and no one suffer! Please protect everyone and protect my family.
मोर सुधारों सो सब भान्ति, जासु कृपा नहीं कृपा अघाती.
More sudhaaro so san bhaanti jaasu kripa nahin kripa aghaati. 
My dear Bhagavan! Fix all kinds of faults in me and improve me. Your mercy never tires of giving mercy.
जहि पर कृपा करही जन जानी, कवि उर अजिर नाचावही  वाणी.
Jahi par kripa karahi jan jaani, kavi ur ajir nachavahi vaani.  
Goddess Saraswati dances on the tongue of those whom You mercifully see as Yours. That person who gets Your mercy gets all the knowledge. I am Yours. You are mine. Please give me Your mercy and accept me as Yours.
हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे
हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे 
hare ram hare ram ram ram hare hare
hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare











Final Instruction of Bhagvan Shri Krishna

Bhagavan Shri Krishna said: Dear Uddhav, now I shall describe you auspicious Bhagavat-dharma. By following this dharma with faith, the human beings  can easily conquer unconquerable death in form of this world. Uddhavji! My bhakta should do all his actions (karma) for Me and gradually practice to increase my remembrance or thoughts (स्मरण) about Me while doing those actions. Quickly his mind and citta ( चित्त reservoir of thoughts) will be offered to Me. The mind and self will become focussed on My dharma. He can live in the holy places where saintly people reside and follow the actions of those people who are my ananya bhakta. Ananya bhakta has truly realized this bhagavat dharma.


The sky has no limit and everything is contained within the sky. Similarly, sadhak with pure heart should see Me (Paramatma) residing in one's  own and everyone's heart. Oh pure hearted Uddhava! That sadhak is considered true knower of this dharma who takes shelter of this above vision of knowledge, sees Me in every living entity and objects, loves and respects everyone seeing them as My form and sees equally the compassionate and cruel, the wise and the fool, the one who serves the wise and the thief. In this way, when one continuously tries to see everyone as form of Bhagavan, then soon competition, enviousness, contempt, abusiveness, ego and other faults go away from his heart. Don't care for other's disregard and ridicule. "I am good and other's are bad" - give up this fault finding tendency. Offer pranams to dogs, fool, cow and donkey falling flat on the ground. (At least do it mentally in your mind). Until this consciousness of truly seeing Me in everyone is developed, worship Me by serving living entities by mind, speech and bodily actions. Uddhavaji! In his way when seeing Paramatma everywhere is practiced, then soon one is able to truly see  everything as Brahman (Paramatma or Me). When such vision is established, the doubts and confusions go away automatically and due to seeing Me everywhere, one give up vision of this world i.e. identification of self with this world. Of all the possible ways to attain Me, I consider this to be the best way of attaining Me  - see all living entities and objects as Me with mind, speech and bodily activities. Uddhavji! This is my Bhagavat dharma. When sadhak starts practicing this dharma, then no obstacle can affect the sadhak because this dharma is niskama (free from material motivation) and this is considered best by Me due to being nirguna (beyond external inert matter). While practicing this dharma, offer the obstacles and mistakes to Me. If fear and lamentation is experienced, then offer that feeling to Me. Offer crying, running and other seemingly useless activities to Me without any judgement. Due to them being offered to Me, they become Bhagavat dharma. The culmination of discrimination of those who discriminate between self and inert matter, cleverness of those who are clever is to attain Me, the imperishable and eternal tattva (substance or truth), using perishable body. This dharma is even difficult to realize even for devatas (heavenly beings). What to say of human beings! One who understands this dharma attains eternal moksha and attains Me.