03 - Bhakta-lakshanas - Who is a Devotee | Swamini Ma Gurupriya

Gurupoornima 2024 - Discourse based on Bhagavad Gita & Srimad Bhagavatam
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In this talk, Ma helps us further explore the subject of devotion and the true devotee. In the seventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna starts focusing on wholesome devotion. Though he is in a human form, he identifies himself with the Supreme and gives spiritual instructions to Arjuna.
Sri Krishna gives the assurance that when the seeker pursues Yoga taking refuge in the Supreme wholesomely, he will know the Supreme in entirety. He says that true spiritual seekers are few. Amongst them, those who strive to know God in preference to any other attainment, are still rarer. Very rarely one understands the supreme in its essence.
Krishna says that his inferior nature is divided into eight constituents-earth, water, fire, air and space, and the internal constituents mind, intelligence and ego. This is the Supreme’s eight-fold lower nature. The higher nature is the sentience by which the whole creation is sustained. It is the jeeva in the human personality. The physical body is animated and activated by the sentience or the spiritual presence.
Krishna says that all beings have emerged from the conjunction of the lower and higher natures of the Supreme Reality. This Supreme Reality is the origin and the dissolution of the universe. It is permeating everything and the entire existence is interwoven in the Supreme.
Bhagavad Gita speaks about how the one soul manifests many things with manifold properties. It is the taste in the waters, brilliance in the sun and the moon, the Om of all Vedas, and the will power in all humans. It is the divine fragrance of the earth, brilliance of the fire, life in all beings and the austerity in the ascetics. It is the eternal seed of all beings; it is the intelligence of the intelligent and the brilliance of the brilliant.
Ma says that when we introspect on these verses and make it our own, everything becomes divinized. We understand that everything is designed and controlled by the Supreme Lord. The mind, then, starts perceiving the whole creation as God’s and starts associating all interactions, actions and behaviour with God.
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Verses chanted during the talk: स्वामिन्नमस्ते नतलोकबन्धो कारुण्यसिन्धो पतितं भवाब्धौ । मामुद्धरात्मीयकटाक्षदृष्ट्या ऋज्व्यातिकारुण्यसुधाभिवृष्ट्या ॥ svāmin-namaste nata-loka-bandho kāruṇya-sindho patitaṃ bhavābdhau | mām-uddharātmīya-kaṭākṣa-dṛṣṭyā ṛjvyātikāruṇya-sudhābhivṛṣṭyā || Vivekacūḍāmaṇiḥ 35 || ज्ञानस्वरूपं निजभावयुक्तमानन्दमानन्दकरं प्रसन्नम् । योगीन्द्रमीड्यं भवरोगवैद्यं श्रीमद्गुरुं नित्यमहं नमामि ॥ jñāna-svarūpaṃ nija-bhāvayuktam-ānandam-ānandakaraṃ prasannaṃ | yogīndram-īḍyaṃ bhava-roga-vaidyaṃ śrīmad-guruṃ nityam-ahaṃ namāmi || Guru Gītā 114 || नित्याय सत्याय चिदात्मकाय नव्याय भव्याय परात्पराय । शुद्धाय बुद्धाय निरञ्जनाय नमोऽस्तु नित्यं गुरुशेखराय ॥ nityāya satyāya cidātmakāya navyāya bhavyāya parātparāya | śuddhāya buddhāya nirañjanāya namo'stu nityaṃ guruśekharāya || Guru Gītā 326 || मय्यासक्तमना: पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रय: । असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु ॥ mayyāsaktamanā: pārtha yogaṃ yuñjanmadāśraya: । asaṃśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu ॥ Bhagavad Gita 7.1 यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं तत: | यस्मिन्स्थितो न दु:खेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते || yaṁ labdhvā chāparaṁ lābhaṁ manyate nādhikaṁ tataḥ yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vichālyate Bhagavad Gita 6.22 जन्मानेकशतै: सदादरयुजा भक्त्या समाराधितो भक्तैर्वैदिकलक्षणेन विधिना सन्तुष्ट ईश: स्वयम् । साक्षाच्छ्रीगुरुरूपमेत्य कृपया दृग्गोचर: सन् प्रभु: तत्वं साधु विबोध्य तारयति तान् संसार-दुःखार्णवात् ॥ janmānekaśatai: sadādarayujā bhaktyā samārādhito bhaktairvaidikalakṣaṇena vidhinā santuṣṭa īśa: svayam । sākṣācchrīgururūpametya kṛpayā dṛggocara: san prabhu: tatvaṃ sādhu vibodhya tārayati tān saṃsāra-duḥkhārṇavāt ॥ श्रद्धा रतिर्भक्तिरनुक्रमिष्यति ॥ śraddhā ratirbhaktiranukramiṣyati ॥ Srimad Bhagavatam 3.25.25 भक्तिर्विरक्तिर्भगवत्प्रबोधः । bhaktirviraktirbhagavatprabodhaḥ । Srimad Bhagavatam 11.2.43 स्वस्वरूपानुसन्धानं भक्तिरित्यभिधीयते ॥ svasvarūpānusandhānaṃ bhaktirityabhidhīyate || Vivekachudamani 31 आकाशवल्लेप-विदूरगोऽहं आदित्यवद्-भास्य-विलक्षणोऽहम् । अहार्यवन्नित्य-विनिश्चलोऽहं अम्भोधिवत्पार-विवर्जितोऽहम् ॥ ākāśavallepa-vidūrago’haṃ ādityavad-bhāsya-vilakṣaṇo’ham । ahāryavannitya-viniścalo’haṃ ambhodhivatpāra-vivarjito’ham ॥ ब्रह्मभूत: प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ् क्षति | सम: सर्वेषु भूतेषु मद्भक्तिं लभते पराम् || brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śhochati na kāṅkṣhati samaḥ sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām Bhagavad Gita 18.54 मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये | यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वत: || 3|| manuṣhyāṇāṁ sahasreṣhu kaśhchid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaśhchin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ Bhagavad Gita 7.3 भूमिरापोऽनलो वायु: खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च | अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा || bhūmir-āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva cha ahankāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛitir aṣhṭadhā Bhagavad Gita 7.4 अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम् | जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत् || apareyam itas tvanyāṁ prakṛitiṁ viddhi me parām jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat Bhagavad Gita 7.5 एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय | अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगत: प्रभव: प्रलयस्तथा || etad-yonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya ahaṁ kṛitsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā Bhagavad Gita 7.6 शास्त्रस्य गुरुवाक्यस्य सत्यबुद्ध्यवधारणम् । सा श्रद्धा कथिता सद्भिर्यया वस्तूपलभ्यते ॥ śāstrasya guruvākyasya satyabuddhyavadhāraṇam | sā śraddhā kathitā sadbhiryayā vastūpalabhyate || Vivekachudamani 25 मत्त: परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय | मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव || mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñchid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva Bhagavad Gita 7.7 रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययो: | प्रणव: सर्ववेदेषु शब्द: खे पौरुषं नृषु || raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śhaśhi-sūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣhu śhabdaḥ khe pauruṣhaṁ nṛiṣhu Bhagavad Gita 7.8 पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ । जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु ॥ puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau । jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu ॥ Bhagavad Gita 7.9 बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् । बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥ bījaṃ māṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ viddhi pārtha sanātanam । buddhirbuddhimatāmasmi tejastejasvināmaham ॥ Bhagavad Gita 7.10 सम्पूर्णं जगदेव नन्दनवनं सर्वेऽपि कल्पद्रुमाः गाङ्गं वारि समस्तवारि निवहाः पुण्याः समस्ताः क्रियाः वाचः प्राकृतसंस्कृताः श्रुतिशिरो वाराणसी मेदिनी सर्वावस्थितिरस्य वस्तुविषया दृष्टे परब्रह्मणि ॥ sampūrṇaṃ jagadeva nandana-vanaṃ sarve'pi kalpadrumāḥ gāṅgaṃ vāri samasta-vāri nivahāḥ puṇyāḥ samastāḥ kriyāḥ | vācaḥ prākṛta-saṃskṛtāḥ śrutiśiro vārāṇasī medinī sarvāvasthitirasya vastu-viṣayā dṛṣṭe parabrahmaṇi || Dhanyāṣtakam ||

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