A DIVINE MESSAGE
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2014 Sharad Poornima
Philosophy
Sharad Poornima
Gloomy day or a day of devotional upliftment?
It was the most beautiful full moon night of the fall seen before in Vrindaban. The beautiful magnificence, the moon appeared with all ambience of Vrindaban reflected the complete highest level of Divine love “Maadan” showered for the deserving souls of Braj. Lord Krishna, by the grace and permission of Shri Radha of His divine forms to drench all the dese of them personally. It started at midnight (4.29 billion earth years).
Our beloved master Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj midnight in Mangarh, a village in Uttar Pradesh his devotees to follow the love ideology
Our Gurudev, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was the ocean of mercy like Shri Radha and sweetly mischievous and playful like Lord Krishna. Hence He is also considered as the second the mixed avatar of Shri Radha Krishna
He was extremely active and jovial. Besides He was so caring and loving that He was adored by his devotees like their life. His followers were kept so busy with the schedule of His sweet pastimes that they had no inkling of commencement of day or night. It used to happen every day round the year.
But the most favored day of His devotees was “Sharad-Poornima” the day when He blessed the earth with His appearance. Devotees residing all over the world would start planning far ahead of time to reach Mangarh, the birth place of Shri Maharaj Ji. Nobody wanted to miss the most blissful The entire village of Mangarh would be other beautiful birthday decorations. The celebration would start at 3.00 AM with Guru-pujan. The lines to do pujan of His lotus feet used to be so long that it was hard to delineate beginning or the end of the lines. Thereafter, there would so many enjoyable activities that devotees could barely find free time to rest.
That same blissful day of Sharad Poornima is arriving very soon. Although lots of devotees in India and abroad are planning to reach Guru-Dham Mangarh ahead of time, yet everyone is feeling gloomy and missing the joy of Gurudev’s birthday celebrations of the past when He blessed us with His physical presence. The devotees are sad to think that they would be deprived of seeing His cheerful face and miss laughing at His witty jokes. How can we be blessed by touching His lotus feet early in the morning! How can we have beautiful glimpses of Him in various outfits the entire day!! In the past the girls and boys living in the Ashram would put up stunning cultural programs showing their amazing acting, singing and dancing talents.
During these performances, His expressions, hilarious remarks and gestures would be more pleasurable than the programs themselves. The devotees would be more interested in watching Him rather than the cultural programs. Alas, how we would be denied this pleasure now. Most of the time during Keertan, He would be absorbed in divine ecstasy. His personality at that time was so blissful and divine that many devotees would also faint in ecstasy. How we ever have the same vibrations of divine ecstasy? Although we feel devastated, a large number of devotees are still planning to visit Mangarh to get engrossed in His sweet memories and reminisce about the places in Mangarh, where he used to walk, talk, sit and play various pastimes. They are going to do Sadhana (devotional practice) and shed tears thinking of sweet memories of the past. They are going to increase their feelings of love and separation for Him.
So, this Sharad Poornima looks like it’s going to be an incredible mixture of devotion tinged with sadness.
Our beloved master Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj midnight in Mangarh, a village in Uttar Pradesh his devotees to follow the love ideology
- Love Shri Radha –Krishna exclusively.
- Adore Shri Krishna as your beloved and Shri Radha as your supreme governess. It is called “ Bhav”.
- Love them in a completely selfless manner. This means serving happiness and doing everything only for their pleasure.
Our Gurudev, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was the ocean of mercy like Shri Radha and sweetly mischievous and playful like Lord Krishna. Hence He is also considered as the second the mixed avatar of Shri Radha Krishna
He was extremely active and jovial. Besides He was so caring and loving that He was adored by his devotees like their life. His followers were kept so busy with the schedule of His sweet pastimes that they had no inkling of commencement of day or night. It used to happen every day round the year.
But the most favored day of His devotees was “Sharad-Poornima” the day when He blessed the earth with His appearance. Devotees residing all over the world would start planning far ahead of time to reach Mangarh, the birth place of Shri Maharaj Ji. Nobody wanted to miss the most blissful The entire village of Mangarh would be other beautiful birthday decorations. The celebration would start at 3.00 AM with Guru-pujan. The lines to do pujan of His lotus feet used to be so long that it was hard to delineate beginning or the end of the lines. Thereafter, there would so many enjoyable activities that devotees could barely find free time to rest.
That same blissful day of Sharad Poornima is arriving very soon. Although lots of devotees in India and abroad are planning to reach Guru-Dham Mangarh ahead of time, yet everyone is feeling gloomy and missing the joy of Gurudev’s birthday celebrations of the past when He blessed us with His physical presence. The devotees are sad to think that they would be deprived of seeing His cheerful face and miss laughing at His witty jokes. How can we be blessed by touching His lotus feet early in the morning! How can we have beautiful glimpses of Him in various outfits the entire day!! In the past the girls and boys living in the Ashram would put up stunning cultural programs showing their amazing acting, singing and dancing talents.
During these performances, His expressions, hilarious remarks and gestures would be more pleasurable than the programs themselves. The devotees would be more interested in watching Him rather than the cultural programs. Alas, how we would be denied this pleasure now. Most of the time during Keertan, He would be absorbed in divine ecstasy. His personality at that time was so blissful and divine that many devotees would also faint in ecstasy. How we ever have the same vibrations of divine ecstasy? Although we feel devastated, a large number of devotees are still planning to visit Mangarh to get engrossed in His sweet memories and reminisce about the places in Mangarh, where he used to walk, talk, sit and play various pastimes. They are going to do Sadhana (devotional practice) and shed tears thinking of sweet memories of the past. They are going to increase their feelings of love and separation for Him.
So, this Sharad Poornima looks like it’s going to be an incredible mixture of devotion tinged with sadness.
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Philosophy सार गर्भित सिद्धान्त
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पुनि शरद्पूर्णिमा आ गई ।
कौन प्रीत की रीत मीत की, बीत अरी वर्षा गई । नहिं आए नहिं हमहिं बुलाये, अस कुबरी मन भा गई । जो किय पिय ! अपमान सदा तव, सो फल हल भल पा गई । दे दो क्षमा दान अब हम कहँ, बानी क्षमा की का गई । कह "कृपालु" यह शरद्-रास सुधि, औरहुँ आग लगा गई ॥ प्रेम रस मदिरा - विरह माधुरी #121
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puni śaradpūrṇimā ā gaī ।
kauna prīta kī rīta mīta kī, bīta arī varṣā gaī । nahiṃ āe nahiṃ hamahiṃ bulāye, asa kubarī mana bhā gaī । jo kiya piya ! apamāna sadā tava, so phala hala bhala pā gaī । de do kṣamā dāna aba hama kaham̐, bānī kṣamā kī kā gaī । kaha "kṛpālu" yaha śarad-rāsa sudhi, aurahum̐ āga lagā gaī ॥ prema rasa madirā - viraha mādhurī #121
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Here is the description of agonizing pain a gopi feels in being separated from her beloved Shri Krishna. And that pain has become more unbearable on the auspicious day of Sharad Poornima. She reminisces of the day when Shri Krishna showered unlimited nectar of Maharas (bliss of divine love) for one kalpa upon her.
The Vedas say
The Vedas say
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अतप्त तनुर्नतदा मोश्नुते दिवम्।
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atapta tanurnatadā mośnute divam।
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As gold exhibits its maximum brightness after being burnished in the fire, love becomes exceedingly pure and intense in times of separation. Hence Shri Krishna, after giving unlimited bliss of divine love, leaves His devotees to undergo unbearable pangs of separation. Lord Krishna explained the reason of bestowing maximum pain after drenching a devotee in the ocean of love in the following verse of Shrimad Bhagavat - Mahapuran:
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नाहं तु सख्यो भजतोऽपि जन्तून् भजाम्यमीषामनुवृत्तिवृत्तये ।
यथाधनो लब्धधने विनष्टे तच्चिन्तयान्यन्निभृतो न वेद ॥ भा 10.32.20 |
nāhaṃ tu sakhyo bhajato'pi jantūn bhajāmyamīṣāmanuvṛttivṛttaye ।
yathādhano labdhadhane vinaṣṭe taccintayānyannibhṛto na veda ॥ bhā 10.32.20 |
"But the reason I do not immediately reciprocate the affection of living beings even when they worship Me, O gopīs, is that I want to intensify their loving devotion. They then become like a poor man who has gained some wealth and then lost it, and who thus becomes so anxious about it that he can think of nothing else."
"I always remain in the hearts of my devotees and notice the augmentation of the fire of love when I confer pains of separation on them. If a beggar gets a large amount of money through a lottery etc. he lavishes himself to greatest extent of comfort and luxury. Thereafter, all of a sudden, if he greatest extent of comfort and luxury, if he were to lose all of it, it will be almost impossible for him to survive in the previous state of poverty. Precisely, a jeev who ever since eternity had always been deprived of the bliss of love, gets to taste the nectar of My love-bliss, cannot survive without attaining the bliss of My association. And divine love never decreases even after an extensive length of time of separation. Instead, it keeps on increasing And I wait until it reaches its extremity. "
Lord Krishna showered the bliss of highest level of divine love torrentially. Now, when a gopi is already burning in the fire of separation, sweet memories of His loving gestures, touch, talks etc. make her more miserable. She thinks, there are many who love Him more than us, otherwise he would have called us or He would have sent a message for us. It seems like He has forgotten us. The gopi also realizes, due to extreme proximity of relationship, we misbehaved with Him used many insulting words and are probably facing punishment for our laxity.
But Shri Krishna is the unfathomable ocean of love and mercy. Still, He gives pangs of separation for the reason mentioned above in Bhagavat verse.
"I always remain in the hearts of my devotees and notice the augmentation of the fire of love when I confer pains of separation on them. If a beggar gets a large amount of money through a lottery etc. he lavishes himself to greatest extent of comfort and luxury. Thereafter, all of a sudden, if he greatest extent of comfort and luxury, if he were to lose all of it, it will be almost impossible for him to survive in the previous state of poverty. Precisely, a jeev who ever since eternity had always been deprived of the bliss of love, gets to taste the nectar of My love-bliss, cannot survive without attaining the bliss of My association. And divine love never decreases even after an extensive length of time of separation. Instead, it keeps on increasing And I wait until it reaches its extremity. "
Lord Krishna showered the bliss of highest level of divine love torrentially. Now, when a gopi is already burning in the fire of separation, sweet memories of His loving gestures, touch, talks etc. make her more miserable. She thinks, there are many who love Him more than us, otherwise he would have called us or He would have sent a message for us. It seems like He has forgotten us. The gopi also realizes, due to extreme proximity of relationship, we misbehaved with Him used many insulting words and are probably facing punishment for our laxity.
But Shri Krishna is the unfathomable ocean of love and mercy. Still, He gives pangs of separation for the reason mentioned above in Bhagavat verse.
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Kid's Story
About 5,000 years ago Lord Shri Krishna descended on this earth. At the same time there were 100 sons of Dhritrashtra called Kaurava Brothers. They were cousins of five Pandava brothers who were sons of Kunti. Due to some peculiar circumstances both Yudhisthir (oldest Pandava) and Duryodhan (oldest Kaurava) were crown princes. Yudhisthir was the rightful crown prince and was worthy of it too but the oldest Kaurava Duryodhan wanted to be the king. Hence the kingdom of Hastinapur was partitioned into Hastinapur and Khandavprastha. Duryodhan was made the crown prince of Hastinapur and Yudhisthira was asked to establish his kingdom in the forest area called Khandavprastha. Despite getting the better deal, the greed of Duryodhan was still uncontained. He wanted to annex the Pandavas’ portion as well. In pursuit of Khandavprastha, Kaurvas challenged Pandavas to a game of dice. Both parities put their entire kingdom and belongings at stake. Also, as per the wager the loser would be exiled to the forest for 13 years of which the last 1 year they had to live incognito.
Kaurvas cheated in that game and Pandavas lost everything. Thus, they lost the kingdom and were exiled along with their wife Draupadi. This is a story of when Pandavas were living in exile in Dvaita Forest. The Sun God came to the rescue and gave a "special vessel" (अक्ष्यपात्र) to Draupadi. Everyday this vessel would provide desired food to any number of people, till Draupadi had her meal. Once she had eaten, it would be fill up only the next day. So Draupadi would feed Pandavas first and then have the food. In this way they started managing while living in the jungle.
One day, after their meal when the Pandavas were relaxing sage Durvasa arrived in their hut in the forest. He was accompanied with thousands of his disciples. The illustrious king Yudhishthira, welcomed the guests, joined the palms of his hands in greeting as he welcomed the sages and seated them. Then the king requested the sages, 'Oh respectable Sir, after performing your mid-day ablutions and observances, please return for a meal.' And that sinless Muni, not knowing how the king would be able to provide a feast for him and his disciples, proceeded to perform his ablutions in a stream nearby.
In the wilderness, food for thousands of people is not readily available. Also, Draupadi had already eaten so the vessel would also not produce any food till the next day. She was at her wits end as to how she would offer food to these thousands of pious guests. Draupadi, the virtuous queen, could not feed a few thousand Brahmins! That would be a major disgrace to their family and serious disrespect of renowned sage and his disciples. Moreover, Durvasa was known for his short temper. Pandavas might fall a victim to his wrath!
Perturbed and helpless, Draupadi lovingly focused her mind on Shri Krishna. In his palace in Dwarka Shri Krishna heard the cry of despair of His devotee. Shri Krishna has a weakness. He cannot help but rush to help a fully surrendered devotee in need. So He reached her forest dwelling. Beholding Vasudeva, Draupadi bowed down to him in great joy and informed him of the arrival of the Munis. She also told Him about her predicament of feeding Rishi Durvasa and his thousand of disciples.
Shri Krishna brushed aside all that and said,"I am very hungry give me something to eat first then you may go about preparing a meal for them". At these words of Shri Krishna, Draupadi was extremely sad that there was no food to offer to Vasudev. She lowered her head in shame and confessed, "there is no food in the hut and also the sun-given vessel remains full only until I finish my meal. As I have already taken my meal today, there is no food in it now".
Then that lotus-eyed Shri Krishna told Draupadi, "Don't kid me. I am much distressed with hunger, go quickly to fetch the vessel and show it to Me". When He persisted in His ask Draupadi brought the empty vessel and tears in her eyes. He looked into it and saw a particle of rice and vegetable sticking at its rim. Shri Krishna swallowed it he said to her, "May this grain please Hari, the soul of the Universe and may that God who partakes of sacrifices, be satiated with this." Then Krishna told Bhima, 'Go speedily and invite the Munis for a feast’. Bhimasena promptly carried out Shri Krishna's command .
Meanwhile, these ascetics, had already taken a dip into the river and as they were coming out of the river they felt their stomachs were full. They looked at each other in astonishment. They they turned towards Durvasa, and confessed,"O holy one! we told the king to make a repast for us. But O Rishi! we cannot anything now, for our stomachs seem to be full till the throat. The feast which has been prepared for us will go waste. What is the best thing to be done now?" Durvasa replied, 'By spoiling the repast, we have done a great wrong to king Yudhishthira. This might infuriate Pandavas. The royal sage Yudhishthira possesses great ascetic power. O Brahmins! I am afraid of devotees of Shri Hari. The spiritually elevated Pandavas are all religious men, learned, skilled warriors, diligent in ascetic austerities and religious observances, always observant of rules of good conduct and above all devoted to Vasudeva. If provoked, they can consume us with their wrath as fire consumes a bale of cotton. Therefore, Oh disciples, let us all run away quickly without seeing them (again)!"
Thus all the sages left without visiting Pandavas again. Then Bhimasena not beholding those excellent Munis in the celestial river, searched for them and found a couple of them. After he learned the story from those Brahmins, he came back and informed Yudhishthira of what had happened. Then all the Pandavas, expecting them to come, remained awaiting their arrival for some time. And Yudhishthira said, “Night is falling and may be the sages will not come. Oh, how can we escape from this difficulty?” Seeing them absorbed in such reflections and breathing long deep sighs at frequent intervals, the illustrious Krishna suddenly appeared to them and addressed them with these words: “Knowing, your danger from that wrathful Rishi, I was implored by Draupadi to come, therefore I have come here speedily. But now you don’t need to fear Rishi Durvasa. He has scared himself away. Virtuous men never suffer. I now ask your permission to let me return home. May you always be prosperous!”
Hearing Kesava's words, the sons of Pritha and Draupadi, were relieved of all worries and anxiety, they said to Him, “Lord Govinda! As persons drowning in the vast ocean safely reach the shore by means of a boat, so have we. With Your support we've escaped from this inextricable difficulty. Please depart in peace, and may prosperity be Yours.” Thus dismissed, Shri Krishna returned to His capital Dwarika and the Pandavas too wandering from forest to forest passed their days merrily with Draupadi.
Moral:
1. The Supreme Lord of all universes, Shri Krishna rushes to help his devotees in need. He does not appoint any servants to help His devotees.
2. Shri Krishna accepts anything and everything that a devotee offers lovingly to Him (even leftovers as in this story).
3. God is like the root and all others are like the other parts of the tree. If the root is satisfied all others are automatically satisfied.
4. Those who are 100% surrendered to God are very humble. Though they possess all of God’s powers yet they don’t exercise them to hurt others or for their own material welfare.
Kaurvas cheated in that game and Pandavas lost everything. Thus, they lost the kingdom and were exiled along with their wife Draupadi. This is a story of when Pandavas were living in exile in Dvaita Forest. The Sun God came to the rescue and gave a "special vessel" (अक्ष्यपात्र) to Draupadi. Everyday this vessel would provide desired food to any number of people, till Draupadi had her meal. Once she had eaten, it would be fill up only the next day. So Draupadi would feed Pandavas first and then have the food. In this way they started managing while living in the jungle.
One day, after their meal when the Pandavas were relaxing sage Durvasa arrived in their hut in the forest. He was accompanied with thousands of his disciples. The illustrious king Yudhishthira, welcomed the guests, joined the palms of his hands in greeting as he welcomed the sages and seated them. Then the king requested the sages, 'Oh respectable Sir, after performing your mid-day ablutions and observances, please return for a meal.' And that sinless Muni, not knowing how the king would be able to provide a feast for him and his disciples, proceeded to perform his ablutions in a stream nearby.
In the wilderness, food for thousands of people is not readily available. Also, Draupadi had already eaten so the vessel would also not produce any food till the next day. She was at her wits end as to how she would offer food to these thousands of pious guests. Draupadi, the virtuous queen, could not feed a few thousand Brahmins! That would be a major disgrace to their family and serious disrespect of renowned sage and his disciples. Moreover, Durvasa was known for his short temper. Pandavas might fall a victim to his wrath!
Perturbed and helpless, Draupadi lovingly focused her mind on Shri Krishna. In his palace in Dwarka Shri Krishna heard the cry of despair of His devotee. Shri Krishna has a weakness. He cannot help but rush to help a fully surrendered devotee in need. So He reached her forest dwelling. Beholding Vasudeva, Draupadi bowed down to him in great joy and informed him of the arrival of the Munis. She also told Him about her predicament of feeding Rishi Durvasa and his thousand of disciples.
Shri Krishna brushed aside all that and said,"I am very hungry give me something to eat first then you may go about preparing a meal for them". At these words of Shri Krishna, Draupadi was extremely sad that there was no food to offer to Vasudev. She lowered her head in shame and confessed, "there is no food in the hut and also the sun-given vessel remains full only until I finish my meal. As I have already taken my meal today, there is no food in it now".
Then that lotus-eyed Shri Krishna told Draupadi, "Don't kid me. I am much distressed with hunger, go quickly to fetch the vessel and show it to Me". When He persisted in His ask Draupadi brought the empty vessel and tears in her eyes. He looked into it and saw a particle of rice and vegetable sticking at its rim. Shri Krishna swallowed it he said to her, "May this grain please Hari, the soul of the Universe and may that God who partakes of sacrifices, be satiated with this." Then Krishna told Bhima, 'Go speedily and invite the Munis for a feast’. Bhimasena promptly carried out Shri Krishna's command .
Meanwhile, these ascetics, had already taken a dip into the river and as they were coming out of the river they felt their stomachs were full. They looked at each other in astonishment. They they turned towards Durvasa, and confessed,"O holy one! we told the king to make a repast for us. But O Rishi! we cannot anything now, for our stomachs seem to be full till the throat. The feast which has been prepared for us will go waste. What is the best thing to be done now?" Durvasa replied, 'By spoiling the repast, we have done a great wrong to king Yudhishthira. This might infuriate Pandavas. The royal sage Yudhishthira possesses great ascetic power. O Brahmins! I am afraid of devotees of Shri Hari. The spiritually elevated Pandavas are all religious men, learned, skilled warriors, diligent in ascetic austerities and religious observances, always observant of rules of good conduct and above all devoted to Vasudeva. If provoked, they can consume us with their wrath as fire consumes a bale of cotton. Therefore, Oh disciples, let us all run away quickly without seeing them (again)!"
Thus all the sages left without visiting Pandavas again. Then Bhimasena not beholding those excellent Munis in the celestial river, searched for them and found a couple of them. After he learned the story from those Brahmins, he came back and informed Yudhishthira of what had happened. Then all the Pandavas, expecting them to come, remained awaiting their arrival for some time. And Yudhishthira said, “Night is falling and may be the sages will not come. Oh, how can we escape from this difficulty?” Seeing them absorbed in such reflections and breathing long deep sighs at frequent intervals, the illustrious Krishna suddenly appeared to them and addressed them with these words: “Knowing, your danger from that wrathful Rishi, I was implored by Draupadi to come, therefore I have come here speedily. But now you don’t need to fear Rishi Durvasa. He has scared himself away. Virtuous men never suffer. I now ask your permission to let me return home. May you always be prosperous!”
Hearing Kesava's words, the sons of Pritha and Draupadi, were relieved of all worries and anxiety, they said to Him, “Lord Govinda! As persons drowning in the vast ocean safely reach the shore by means of a boat, so have we. With Your support we've escaped from this inextricable difficulty. Please depart in peace, and may prosperity be Yours.” Thus dismissed, Shri Krishna returned to His capital Dwarika and the Pandavas too wandering from forest to forest passed their days merrily with Draupadi.
Moral:
1. The Supreme Lord of all universes, Shri Krishna rushes to help his devotees in need. He does not appoint any servants to help His devotees.
2. Shri Krishna accepts anything and everything that a devotee offers lovingly to Him (even leftovers as in this story).
3. God is like the root and all others are like the other parts of the tree. If the root is satisfied all others are automatically satisfied.
4. Those who are 100% surrendered to God are very humble. Though they possess all of God’s powers yet they don’t exercise them to hurt others or for their own material welfare.
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