RP: On the verse on supreme devotion - couple of related lines from popular bhajans-
1. Kabirdas - Prem gali ati sankri, tamein dou na samai. Jab mein tha tab Hari nahin, ab Hari hai mein nahin.
Hari and I (ego) can't co-exist. When completely identified with Hari - I disappear - the state of supreme devotion.
2. Meerabai. From the Famous bhajan - ghoongat ke pat khol tohe piya milenge
Soone mandir diya jalaake, aasan se mat dol re, ghoongat ke pat khol re , tohe piya milenge.
Talks of stillness (contemplation) and the ghoongat refers to thoughts ( of duality).
In the stillness of contemplation remove thoughts of duality - you will be united with The Lord. (Popular reference to ghoongat in suhag raat concept. As long as ghoongat exists no milan happens.)
Su: Gurudev's thought for the day:
Ruthless discrimination is the secret of success.
However hungry you are, you will not eat a dead man, because your discrimination tells you of the abominable nature of the act. No lusty person, even if he is of Ravana type, will think of embracing a dead queen. A man dying of thirst will not dare to drink some molten iron.
In all these cases our average discrimination tells us that the cure is more dangerous than the disease.
Similarly in our acute awareness, if we have brought, as a logical conclusion, the firm conviction that this world of objects - including our children, wealth, possessions, our own body, mind and intellect - are all finite that brilliantly dance around us for a certain period of time and will certainly disappear without any notice or warning....
If this realization has come to our personal understanding, certainly we shall get love and affection, and also learn to enjoy everything around us, but at the same time there would be a constant warning from somewhere deep in ourselves that nothing is permanent and that we should not barter away our existence depending entirely upon the finite bubbles of life.
KG: Super examples Ramkumarji.
1. Kabirdas - Prem gali ati sankri, tamein dou na samai. Jab mein tha tab Hari nahin, ab Hari hai mein nahin.
Hari and I (ego) can't co-exist. When completely identified with Hari - I disappear - the state of supreme devotion.
2. Meerabai. From the Famous bhajan - ghoongat ke pat khol tohe piya milenge
Soone mandir diya jalaake, aasan se mat dol re, ghoongat ke pat khol re , tohe piya milenge.
Talks of stillness (contemplation) and the ghoongat refers to thoughts ( of duality).
In the stillness of contemplation remove thoughts of duality - you will be united with The Lord. (Popular reference to ghoongat in suhag raat concept. As long as ghoongat exists no milan happens.)
Su: Gurudev's thought for the day:
Ruthless discrimination is the secret of success.
However hungry you are, you will not eat a dead man, because your discrimination tells you of the abominable nature of the act. No lusty person, even if he is of Ravana type, will think of embracing a dead queen. A man dying of thirst will not dare to drink some molten iron.
In all these cases our average discrimination tells us that the cure is more dangerous than the disease.
Similarly in our acute awareness, if we have brought, as a logical conclusion, the firm conviction that this world of objects - including our children, wealth, possessions, our own body, mind and intellect - are all finite that brilliantly dance around us for a certain period of time and will certainly disappear without any notice or warning....
If this realization has come to our personal understanding, certainly we shall get love and affection, and also learn to enjoy everything around us, but at the same time there would be a constant warning from somewhere deep in ourselves that nothing is permanent and that we should not barter away our existence depending entirely upon the finite bubbles of life.
KG: Super examples Ramkumarji.
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