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Sunahu Sadhak Pyare - Part 24

पूर्ण हो जब शुद्ध अन्तःकरण तुम्हरो प्यारे ।
हरि कृपा ते होय तब मन, दिव्य चिन्मय प्यारे ।
तब कृपा करि देयँ गुरुवर दिव्य प्रेमहिं प्यारे।
तब मिलेगी श्याम सेवा लक्ष्य अंतिम प्यारे ।

pūrṇa ho jaba śuddha antaḥkaraṇa tumharo pyāre ।
hari kṛpā te hoya taba mana, divya cinmaya pyāre ।
taba kṛpā kari deyam̐ guruvara divya premahiṃ pyāre।
taba milegī śyāma sevā lakṣya aṃtima pyāre ।

"When mind is fully purified then God graces and makes the mind divine. It is then that Guru pours the divine love. It is with this love that you will get to serve Shri Krishna. And this is the ultimate goal".

Gaurang Mahaprabhu conveys the same message to Sanatan Goswami in 2 lines

वेद शास्त्र कहे संबंध अभिधेय प्रयोजन । कृष्ण कृष्ण-भक्ति प्रेम तिन महाधन ।

veda śāstra kahe saṃbaṃdha abhidheya prayojana । kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa-bhakti prema tina mahādhana ।

• sambandh means relationship,
• abhidheya is the means employed to achieve the relationship and
• prayojan means the goal or objective.

Soul is an eternal servant of God, because it is a part of God. It is called part of God because it is a power of God. In Gita, Shri Krishna told Arjun that, “God is the master of two main powers, Para shakti and Apara Shakti.

What does this mean? Shri Krishna is our only sambandhi (relative). Devotion is the only way to meet this relative and the goal of meeting Him is to attain His divine love so that

तब मिलेगी श्याम सेवा लक्ष्य अंतिम प्यारे ।

taba milegī śyāma sevā lakṣya aṃtima pyāre ।

"you can serve Him for ever and ever."

Shri Maharaj Ji says, “You have understood the entire philosophy about what is the sole aim of human life.”

Yet, you are far from attaining your ultimate goal just because of your bad habit of procrastinating. You keep thinking, “I know what I have to do. I will do, I will start doing it very soon. Let me finish this and that.” This is how you keep postponing putting all this knowledge into practice.

This is your biggest mistake. Don’t procrastinate saying I will, I will. Do it now. The Mahabharat say –

न श्वः श्वः उपासीत को हि जानति कस्याद्य मृत्युकालो भविष्यति ।
वेद

na śvaḥ śvaḥ upāsīta ko hi jānati kasyādya mṛtyukālo bhaviṣyati ।
veda

"Don't keep putting off devotion to tomorrow. Who knows when the moment of death will arrive"

We have wasted innumerable lives making excuses to finish worldly commitments. Do not put off the pursuit of attaining your ultimate objective any further. The human body is very transient. Nobody knows which breath is the last one.

After attaining victory in the battle of Mahabharat, Yudhisthira became a monarch. One day, a Brahmin approached Yudhisthira to ask for some gold to marry his daughter. Yudhishthir was busy. He asked the Brahmin to come the next day. Bheem who was standing next to Yudhishthir heard this conversation and felt really bad that Yudhisthira turned away the Brahmin. So he devised a plan. He told the Prime Minister to start planning for a major celebration in the kingdom. The Prime minister passed down the message and the whole kingdom was decorated as if there was a major festival.

Yudhisthira noticed all the gaiety and fun. He thought, it is neither Ram Navami nor Janamashtami or any big occasion. What could be the reason of such elaborate festivities?

He ordered the prime minister, who replied I don’t know, it was the instruction of your brother prince Bhim. Then he asked Bhim.

Bhim said, “Bother! you accomplished something so big today as no one has ever done before”. Yudhisthira said, don’t play riddles with me, tell me what’s up. Bhim said, “Brother! you have won over death!! “What? No one can conquer death. Why do you say so”? Bhim replied, “you told the Brahmin today to come the next day to get gold. That means you have won over Death. You are certain that you will live to see tomorrow”? Yudhisthira realized his mistake. He immediately called for the Brahmin and gave him the requested amount of gold.

As saint Narayan has said –

दो बातन को भूल मत जो चाहस कल्यान ।
नारायण एक मौत को दूजो श्री भगवान् ॥

do bātana ko bhūla mata jo cāhasa kalyāna ।
nārāyaṇa eka mauta ko dūjo śrī bhagavān ॥

“Those who want to achieve their aim, should never forget two things, first is death and second is God”. He put God at the 2nd place, since remembering death will automatically force us to remember God.

We all are conversant with the transient nature of life, yet we don’t realize it. Till date no-one has defied the prescribed allocation of time. One may go in Pushpak vimaan (divine plane), as per one’s own wish or may be dragged forcibly by Yamdoot, but everyone has to leave this body at the scheduled time.

We must always remember that each breath could be the last breath of my life. Then we will not put off our efforts to achieve the primary goal of life, which is the only purpose of human life. We must expend only that much time in worldly affairs that is essential to survive and spend rest of the time in the practice of devotion.

Now the final statement, Shri Kripalu Mahaprabhu implores -

दो कृपालुहिं प्रेम भिक्षा, प्रेम अम्बुधि प्यारे ।
सुनहु साधक सुनहु साधक सुनहु साधक प्यारे ॥

do kṛpāluhiṃ prema bhikṣā, prema ambudhi pyāre ।
sunahu sādhaka sunahu sādhaka sunahu sādhaka pyāre ॥

"O ocean of love! please give me alms of divine love".

Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj says, I have imbued the essence of all scriptures in this kirtan. You don’t need to read any scriptures, just understand this kirtan and start following this. That is all you need to do to attain your ultimate goal.

Glory be to Shri Krishna, the Lord of Vrindaban.

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