Re: Bhakthi or is it a business transaction?
Originally Posted by
Anirudh
Namaste HDF
Why a Krishna temple, on a Janmaaahtami should exite us differently.? A slokam is a slokam whether it is read for the first time or on a special occasion or everyday in your home. Of late started wondering why our mind reacts in this way.
Great devotees and Saints never seemed to have gone through this feeling. It fascinated me when I learnt in those days every day they use walk a very long distance only to "fan" a deity idol or to bath an idol with 108 buckets of water.
Is our mind bored with the repetition? Are we doing business with Bhagwaan under the Prayer mask?
My intellect/ego doesn't allow me to think that I have got tired of Bhakthi but my reactions doesn't support my thinking. I am sure many would have experienced what I have explained it here.
Have you ever asked yourself why you felt that way?
Namaste Anirudh (may I call you Aniruddha? )
A very good question. I can tell you of a group who has scientifically explored this question with honesty, and encouraging honesty in others -- the GaudIya VaishNav. Their emphasis of transition from vaidhi bhakti (regulated devotional practice) to rAgAnuga bhakti (following in footsteps of those whose devotion is spontaneous and motiveless) .
However, the downside to chewing this topic too much is the danger of dragging everyone into Kindergarten and not acknowledging spontaneous love in a devotee next door simply because "they are just another kali yug human of modern day like me"
It is the human tendency to generalize and normalize and homogenize that dulls the spontaneity with --- "It cannot be so because it is supposed to be rare"
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Now for the secret behind those saints who do it again and again and agin and not get tired. Walk 5 miles to fan the Deity. Bathe the Deity with buckets from the Ganga etc. These beings have hit the transcendental amrut-Ganga (eternal immortal nectar-Ganga) of prem (spontaneous Divine Love).
Easier than that is never ever getting tired of the Holy Names and becoming a cookie monster for the Holy Names.
Can't have enough of the Beloved Mukunda -- but this does not make the devotee-cookie-monster some wonder or a "great devotee" because this "me" in this context is non-existent! The wonder is in the Holy Names, Holy Forms, Divine qualities, pastimes of the Divine!
Hari nAma PrabhU, Hari Himself, Hari guNa gAvA, Hari lIlA , Hari rUpa, Hari rasa Hari bhakti Hari pyAsa....
It is NAma PrabhU that is the source of that awe and admiration, not the non-existent "devotee"
Sant DnyAneshwar calls it the amrut-zarA (eternal waterfall of nectar ). Gauranga calls it the bhakti latA (creeper of pure devotion) that broke the outer covering of the material universe.
What is this? It is that spontaneity, that never causes boredom, whose navaneet evergreen freshness never tapers off.
What is this? and Where is this?
It is in the Divinity of the Divine, the mAdhurya (sweetness) of mAdhav, vAsudevatva of vAsudev, kAruNya of the karNAsAgar, that tattva (principle) and the Source of that tattva, madhU of madhusUdan, saundarya of ShyAmsundar, daivI guNa of the nirguN, ...
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that keeps the vessel called devotee going!
THAT is the secret.
Triggering or invoking the amrut ZarA (eternal waterfall of nectar) is the secret.
The point you bring in -- is
a) The result of the amrut Zara not yet being hit, is boredom -- which means the material mundane platform has to be transcended
b) pretence of that Zara being triggered , is the byproduct of ego not matured into nirAgas nirahamkAr nirAmay devotion.
nirAgas == innocent, pure, free of tags and labels
nirahamkAr == devoid of false ego or false identification with the vessel called the local body-mind-me_ness-mine_ness
nirAmay = pure, auspicious, natural, pretense-free.
Hari nAma PrabhU, Hari Svayam, Hari guNa gAvA, Hari lIlA , Hari rUpa, Hari rasa Hari bhakti Hari pyAsa....
Last edited by ameyAtmA; 12 September 2014 at 10:54 PM.
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