Chapter
– 122- Sur -Vinaya – Pathrika – Sri Surdas
Maharaj – Sri Sur – Vinaya – Pathrika – The significance of the practice of
devotion in the Balyavastha/childhood, Kishoravastha/adulthood, and
Kaumaravastha/youthful days
Sri Surdas Maharaj speaks “Oh! Ignorant,
kindly follow my advice, and slow down your chase for material possession, wealth,
money, richness, children, wife, relatives, and companion. You have wasted
the precious life drenched in lust, desire, ego, jealousy, pride, anger,
Ahamkara, and Mamakara, thereby you have misused the three significant phases of life
such as Balyavastha/childhood, Kishoravastha/adulthood, and Kaumara/youthful
days, finally you have approached the later years of age. Oh! Ignorant, engage in the practice of meditation and
contemplation upon the lotus feet of Lord Sri Hari while you are young and
healthy, the miserable days are yet to come, during the later years of age the
limbs won’t co-ordinate with your mind, movements would become restricted, the
vision gets blurred, the hearing capacity become dull, the speech would become misty
and the air rush out of your mouth instead of words, your thought process and
speech would get disoriented and many more troubles would follow these days
that are beyond description. Oh! Ignorant, do not get drenched in the
Maya/illusion of Mayapathi, the Universe and its diversified matters of sound,
touch, appearance, passion, and smell of fleeting natured. The illusion/Maya
continues to capture you until you are soaked in ignorance, once you are out of
the interest in fleeting natured material matters of possession, wealth, money,
richness, fame, wife, children, companion and relatives, etc. your sufferings
and grief of worldly existence would disappear. Oh! Jeeva, the supreme Lord
Jagadheeshwara is the Lord of the Universe, he is the protector of the Universe and
its living and non-living things, he is all-pervasive Bhramam resides as a soul in
the Jeeva, it has neither birth nor death, it is unblemished, pure, free from
dualities, and its eternal bliss, hence contemplate and meditate upon the
Supreme Lord Sri Hari, and worship him with pure love and devotion.”
Baire Man Samujji Samujji Kacchu Cheth | Ithanau
Janma Akaraya Khoyau Syama Chikura Bhaye Seth || Thab Lagi Seva Kari Nischaya
Sau Jab Lagi Harithara Kheth | Surdasa Bharama Bhoolau Kari Bighana Sau Heth ||
