Friday 26 February 2021

Sri Vinaya Patrika – Sri Tulsidas Maharaj – The significance of Bhakthi, Gnana, Vairagya

 


Chapter - 71 -Sri Vinaya Pathrika  - The significance of Bhakthi, Gnana, Vairagya

 

Sri Tulsidas Maharaj speaks “ Oh! Mind, if you want to restore the shrine of Lord Raghunatha built in your heart, listen to me carefully. Oh! Mind, all you need to remember the mercy and love showered in abundance by the supreme Lord from the day you have deposited in the womb of your mother, and the growth you have achieved each and every second under the constant care and protection of that supreme Lord, and the struggles you have gone through in your mother’s womb. Oh! Mind, abandon your Ahamkara, Mamakara, lust, desire, ego, pride, jealousy, arrogance, anger, and attachment on the material matters, people and possession, and sincerely undertake the austerities, Japa, vow of celibacy, silence, Shamadhamadi, Sathyam, Dhaya, Shaucham, Swadhyaya, Athmavichara etc. and selflessly serve Lord Raghunatha, preceptors, and Santhvrindh. Oh! Mind, get rid of Dhvandhabhava/the dualities of happiness and sorrow, respect and disrespect, gain and loss, grief and joy, then all your troubles will disappear. Oh! Fool, the body you have taken pride in it is a mere mass of secrete and has fleeting nature, it undergoes aging, illness, and finally meets death. The pride you have built in the possession of material matters and attachment to wife, children, relatives, and companion are under the strong seize of ‘Time’, and it is impermanent. I am Tulsidas, have already taken shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Raghunath, Oh! Mind, stop acting like a fool, Kapata Samadhi, performance of religious and spiritual rite to show off, it won’t help to achieve Lord Raghunatha, therefore serve the lotus feet of Raghunatha with pure love and devotion.”

 

Sri Tulsidas Maharaj continues “I have realized that I have no true devotion and love at the lotus feet of Raghunatha, because I have not practiced Bhakthi, Gnana, and Vairagya. I have not achieved any of these not even in my dreams, I have completely drenched in the interest in worldly matters and bondage, I have constantly chased after material and bodily pleasure, hence I did not practice devotion or observed any austerities. Whoever practiced pure love and devotion at the lotus feet of Lord Ram, would easily abandon the interest in worldly matters and bondage, get rid of interest in Shabdha, Sparsha, Rasa, Roop, and Gandha. The Jeeva who is bitten by the Kamaroopi venomous serpent won’t find any dislike to Vishayavisha of Samsara, they keep chasing after the material welfare and bodily pleasure does not get discouraged, even after getting severely battered by the constant grief, humiliation, pain of separation and loss of wealth and possession, etc. I feel pity for those ignorant Jeeva, and I am deeply worried about them. Oh! Tulsidas, the grief and sufferings of worldly existence cannot get destroyed without the grace of the Lord Sri Ramachandra.”

 

126) Man Mere  Manahi Sikh Meri | Jo Niju Bhagathi Chahai Hari  Keri || Ura Aanahi Prabhukrith Hith Jethe | Sevahi The Je  Apanapau Chethe || Dhukha Sukha Aru Apaman Badayi | Sab Sama Lekhahi Bipathi Bihayi || Sunu  Sat Kalagrasitha Yaha Dhehi | Jani Thehi Lagi Bidhushahi Kehi || Tulasidas Binu Asi Mathi Aaye | Milihim Na Rama Kapat Lau Laye ||

 

127) Mei Jani  Haripadh Rathi Nahim | Sapnehum Nahim Biraga Man Mahim || Je Raghubeer Charan Anurage | Thinha Sab  Bhoga Rogasama Thyage || Kama Bhujanga Dasath Jab  Jahi | Bishaya Neeb Katu Lagath Na Thahi || Asamanjas As Hridhaya Bichari | Badath Soch Nith Noothan Bhari || Jab Kab Ramakripa Dhukha Jayi | Tulasidas Nahim Aan  Upayi ||