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  • O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !  

    ||  Shri Hari  || Best of All Spiritual Disciplines

    (Sarva Shresht Saadhan) 

     

     

    Swami Ramsukhdas  

      

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  • O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !  

    ||  Shri Hari  || Best of All Spiritual Disciplines

    (Sarva Shresht Saadhan)   

        

      

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    ||  Shri Hari  || Best of All Spiritual Disciplines

    (Sarva Shresht Saadhan)  

      

    There are three spiritual disciplines in attainment of God    

     

    1)  To see God in this world   “Yo maam pachyati sarvatra”  (Gita 6/30)  

    2)  To see the World in God   “Sarva cha mayi pacchyati”  (Gita 6/30) 

    3) To see the World as a manifestation (form) of God “Vasudeva Sarvam”                           

    (Gita 7/19)   

     

      Of these three, the one that can very quickly help one realize God and                           

    the best of all spiritual practice is to see the world as a manifestation of                               

    God. In other words, to accept that everything is only God. This is the best                             

    of all because, the sentiments that one reaches in the previous two spiritual                         

    practices at the end, those same sentiments are attained in this third one                         

    from the very beginning.  It has come in Srimad Bhagavata    

     

    Ayam hi sarvakalpaanaam sadhreecheeno mato mama | 

    madbhaavah sarvabhooteshu manovaakkayavruttibhih ||   

    (Srimad Bhagavata 11/29/19)   

     

    “The number of spiritual practices that are there for My attainment, of these I                           

      

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    consider the best of all spiritual practice that in all beings and objects, and in                             

    relating with the mind, speech and body, let there be the presence of Me                           

    only.”  

     

    To understand this point, three examples have been provided in the                       

    Upanishads gold, iron and soil. Just as there are various different kinds of                           

    jewelry, made of gold. The jewelry has different shapes, names, forms,                     

    weight, use, price etc, but in all of them the gold is one only. There is                               

    nothing else besides gold in them. There are various tools made of iron, but                           

    besides iron there is nothing in them. Similarly, there are various vessels                       

    made of clay, but besides clay there is nothing in them. Therefore just as the                             

    jewelry made of gold has to been seen as its original form gold, just as iron                                 

    is to be seen in the various tools and clay is to be seen in the various vessel                                   

    and utensils, in the same way, we must see the world as a form of God, as                                 

    this world has come from God. Therefore this entire universe is a form of                           

    God.   To understand this point properly,  let us think further on it.   

     

    At the root (essence) of all the things that are in this world, there is a one                                 

    element that is not created, which man cannot create. Just as we can make                           

    several things out of wheat, but we cannot create the grain of wheat, we can                             

    make several things out of chick peas, but we cannot create the chickpea                         

    itself, we can make several things out of potatoes, but we cannot bring into                           

    existence a potato. With this human body, many humans can be born, but                         

    we cannot create the sperm and ovum that causes conception. The point is                         

    that even the greatest of scientist and scholarly person cannot create the root                         

    (the seed) of all the things that are present. We can only modify and change                             

    those things, we can genetically modify by blending two things. We can                       

    take the cutting of one plant or tree and graft it on another plant or tree, we                                 

      

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    can cause malformation, but we cannot create its root element. The reason                       

    being that the very essence of it is naturally present. It is not created by man,                               

    rather it is God’s creation.   

     

    Mama yonirmahadbrahm tasmingarbham dadhaamyaham  |   

    sambhavah sarvabhootaanaam tato bhavati bhaarat  ||  

    (Gita 14/3) 

    My primordial Nature, know as great Brahma, is the womb of all creatures; in                           

    that womb I place the seed of life. The creation of all beings follow from the                               

    union of matter and spirit,  O Arjuna.  (Gita 14/3) 

    Sarvayonishu kaunteya moortayah sambhavanti yaah | 

    Taasaam brahma mahdhyoniraham bejampradah pitaa ||  

    (Gita 14/4)   

    O' Son of Kunti! Of all the bodies that take birth from different wombs, this                             

    primordial Matter (prakriti) is the Mother, while I am the seed giving father.  

     

     

      

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    That Lord is the eternal seed of the entire Universe.  God says   

     

    Yacchaapi sarvabhootaanaam beejam tadahamarjuna | 

    Na tadasti vinaa yatsyaanmayaa bhootam charaacharam ||   

    (Gita 10/39)  

     

    O' Arjuna ! I am the seed (the main cause) of all beings. There is no                               

    creature, animate or inanimate, that can exist without Me. (Gita 10/39)   

     

    In other words, animate – inanimate all are God  only.   

    In this world a seed is born out of a tree or plant but God is unborn.                                 

    Therefore God has used the words   an “eternal seed”    

    Bijam maam sarvabhootaanaam viddhi paarth sanaatanam  

    (Gita 7/10)   

    "O' Partha, know Me as the eternal (Sanatana) seed of all beings; (Gita 7/10)  

     

    Worldly seed gives birth to a plant and itself perishes, but God gives birth to                             

    infinite universes and remains the same as it is. Therefore God calls Himself                         

    “Eternal Seed”    

     

    Prabhavah pralayah sthaanam nidhaanam beejamavyayam | (Gita 9/18) 

    "I am the origin, end, resting place, storehouse and the imperishable seed of                         

      

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    this Universe."  

     

     

    The point is that God is there in the beginning of the entire Universe                           

    and at the end. It is a principle that, the thing which is there at the beginning                                 

    and at the end, is also there in the middle (present). Just as various things                             

    are created out of soil (mother earth) , they remain in soil and in the end                               

    they merge into the soil. In the same way, all the seeds that are found in                               

    this world, they have all come from God, they remain in God and in the end                               

    they merge into God. It means that worldly seeds are born and they perish,                           

    but the eternal seed in the form of God is there as it is, in the beginning,                                 

    middle and end. Therefore at present it is God only in the form of this world.                               

    There is nothing besides God.   

     

    Question The inert world that is visibly seen at present, made of the five                               elements, which comes into being and later perishes, how is one to                       

    understand this to be the imperishable form of God? 

    Answer All the things that are born of a seed, they are all a form of that                                   seed only. Just as the wheat fields are called wheat only. The farmer says                           

    the wheat crop has come out really good, see how the wheat are standing                           

      

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    upright in the fields and the fields are covered with wheat crop. But a person                             

    living in the city, a businessman, how can he regard the fields to be wheat?                             

    He will say I have purchased tons and tons of wheat and have sold it in the                                 

    market, do I not know what the wheat looks like? This here is only grass,                             

    stems and leaves, not wheat. However, he who is a farmer, he only will say                             

    that this is not grass which is eaten by cows etc. This is wheat. If the cows                                 

    eats from the fields, then they will say that the cow has eaten our wheat, even                               

    though the cow has not eaten a single grain of wheat. Even if there is not a                                 

    single grain of wheat, then too it is wheat only. There is no doubt about this.                               

    Because it was wheat in the beginning, it will be wheat in the end, then in the                                 

    middle in the form of a field, it is wheat only. Right now it appears to be                                 

    green grasslike, but later when it matures and ripen, wheat will be                       

    harvested.   In the the same way,  in this world,   first there was God  

      “Sadeva  somyedamagra aaseedekmevaaditeeyam”   

    (Chandogya.   6/2/1),   

    and in the end too, only God will remain    

    “Shishyate shesasangyah”   

    (Srimad Bhagavata  10/3/25).   

    Therefore in the middle too everything is only God   

    “Vasudevah Sarvam”  (Gita 7/19),   

    “Sadasacchaham”  (Gita 9/19).   

      

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    The entire universe manifests from God, i.e. besides God there is nothing                       

    else at all. That which comes in one’s imagination and that which is beyond                           

    one’s imagination, it is all in all a form of God. In waking and in dream state                                 

    whatever is seen, it is all only God. Real is also God, unreal is also God,                               

    and that which is beyond the realunreal is also only  God.  

    “Sadsattparam yat” (Gita 11/37).   

    That Brahmin whose feet were held by the Lord and placed on His heart,                           

    such a dear one, as well as, the lowliest of lowly ones both are a form of                                   

    God. Just as one prostrates before Ganeshji made of gold, but does not                         

    prostrate before a mouse made of gold, but in the eyes of the goldsmith,                           

    they are both worth the same; in the same way, a Brahmin and a lowly one,                               

    a sadhu and a butcher, a cow and a dog, an elephant and an ant, a heap of                                   

    soil and gold are all different in terms of class, quality, duty etc., but from the                               

    perspective of devotion, they are the same, i.e. they are all a form of God                                

    “Vasudevah Sarvam”. The point is that just as the various limbs of the body                           

    perform their functions, yet the effort to remove the pain and suffering of any                           

    one part is the same. In the same way “Jaisa deva, waisi puja” From the                               

    perspective of “As is the god, so is the worship” accordingly even though                         

    relating with a Brahmin and a lowly “chandaal” etc. as per the dictates of the                             

      

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    scriptures, there is no difference in the eyes of a devotee (seeing the Lord                           

    equally in all), and there is no difference when it comes to making an effort to                               

    remove their suffering and in giving them comfort.   

     

    All the changes that are seen in the world, they are all a glimpse of the                               

    Lord, a tinge of His glory, a glance at His perkiness, His divine play. When                             

    a worldly man gets a glimpse of this, he becomes entangled. Due to a                           

    sense of enjoyment, his sight gets stuck in the everchanging world. It does                         

    not reach God. With the influence of “satsang” he becomes disinclined                     

    towards the world i.e. turns away from the world, and becomes inclined                       

    (turns) towards God, then out of His immense grace, God graces Him with                         

    dualistic devotion i.e. The Lord blesses him with divine feelings and                     

    sentiments.   

     

    Everything is only God There is no spiritual discipline as great as this,                           

    there is no devotion and worship like it. With such feelings and sentiments,                         

    God Realization becomes very easy. While giving the discourse on seeing                     

    “All is God”,   Brahmaji said    

     

    Ahamevaasmevaagre naanyad yat sadsat param | 

    Paschaadaham yadetacch yovashishyet sosmyaham ||   

    (Srimad Bhagwat.  2/9/32)   

     

    “Before creation, only I was present. Apart from Me, there was nothing else,                         

    and after the creation of this world, whatever is seen is Me alone, all that is                               

      

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    existent (real, sat) and nonexistent (unreal, asat) and beyond the two, in all                         

    of this, there is only Me, and after dissolution of this Universe also, there is                             

    only Me,  and whatever remains after destruction that too is Me alone.”   

    Even in Gita,  the Lord has said    

     

    Ahamaadisch madhyam cha bhootaanaamant eva cha ||  (Gita 10/20)   

    “I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of all creation.” 

    Sargaabaanaadiranyascha madhyaam chaivaahamarjuna (Gita 10/32)  

    O’  Arjuna!  I am the beginning, the end and also the middle of all creation. 

     

    In this manner, to recognize the Universe that came into existence                     

    from God is knowledge. As long as one sees their existence as separate                         

    and independent from the world, till then, it is ignorance. Just as seeing the                           

    wheat fields as wheat is knowledge, and seeing it as nothing but stalks or                           

    grass is ignorance.   

     

      

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    Question From wheat, only wheat can be produced, from millets, only                         millets can be produced, then how are these various creatures both movable                       

    and immovable produced from God?   

     

    Answer Wheat, millet etc. are grains (seeds, beej) in this world, but God                             is extraordinary and transcendental (eternal and indestructible) seed.               

    Therefore from the One God, various universes come into being. The three                       

    plains (lok), the fourteen universes (bhuvans), the inertsentient,               

    movableimmovable, creatures on land, water and skies, born from egg,                   

    womb, seed, among the three modes of nature mode of purity, activity or                           

    inertia, man, demigod, ancestors, heavenly minstrel, animal, bird, insect,                 

    ghostevil spiritdemon, devil etc, all are from the fields of that extraordinary                       

    seed!  In Gita,  the Lord says     

    Matah paratam naanyatkinchidasti  

    (Gita 7/7)  

    "There is no one else besides Me in this world, not in the least bit (both the                                 

    cause and the act of doing).   

     

    "ye chaiva saatvikaa bhaavaa raajasaastaamasaascha ye 

    Matta eveti taanviddhi na tvaham teshu te mayi"   

    (Gita 7/12)  

    Whatever entities there are, born of Sattva (the quality of goodness), and                       

    those that are born of Raajasa (the principle of activity) and Taamasa (the                         

    principle of inertia), know them all as evolved from Me alone. In reality,                         

    however, neither I exist in them,  nor do they exist in Me."  

      

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    Bhavanti bhaavaa bhootaanaam, matta eva pruthagvidhaah ||   

    (Gita 10/5)   

    “Various and diverse traits in all beings emanate from Me alone.” 

    Matah smrutirgyaanamapohanam cha |  

    (Gita 15/15) 

      I am the source of memory, knowledge and the reasoning faculty.                     

    (Skepticism and all evil tendencies are destroyed by Me alone).   

     

    In Srimad Bhagavata,  God says    

    Manasa vachasa drshtvaa gruhyatenyairpeeindriyaih | 

    Ahameva na mattonyaditi budhyadhvamanjasaa ||  

    (Srimad Bhagavat 11/13/24)  

    Through the mind, speech, and other senses, whatever is perceived, all                     

    that is Me and beyond Me there is nothing else – you should quickly                           

    understand i.e. accept this doctrine.  

     

      

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    The meaning is that whatever sentiments, actions, objects born of                   

    purity, activity and inertia that are taken in by the bodysensesmindintellect,                     

    they are all only God. All the thought waves / propensities (sphurna) of the                           

    mind, whether they are good, or bad, are God only. In this world whatever is                             

    goodbad, pureimpure, friendfoe, evildoer or gentleman, sinfulvirtuous,             

    our own or not, etc. , whatever is seen, heard, spoken, thought, understood,                         

    etc., it is all only God. Bodyindweller, fieldknower of field, lowerhigher                     

    nature, perishableimperishable it is all God only. There is nothing else                       

    besides God    

    “Mayya tadmidam sarvam”  (Gita 9/4).   

    "All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest form". When                       

    everything is only God, then where did “I” (individuality) come from? There is                         

    no “I”, there is only You and You alone    

    "Tu Tu kartaa Tu bhayaa,  mujhmein rahi na Hun | 

    Vaari pheeri bali gai, jita dekhu tita Tu ||"  

    "Uttering Thou, Thou, I was transformed into Thou and there remained no                         

    sense of Iness in me; I have surrendered myself to Thee and so wherever I                             

      

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    see, I see Thee alone."  

     

    From the perspective of a Jnāni, Gītā has said that   

    "gunaa guneshu vartante" (Gita 3/28).   

    In other words, it is all an interplay of modes of nature. Similarly, from                           

    the perspective of devotion, God’s things are offered to God. Just as                       

    someone prays to Gangaji by offering Gangajal (water from Gangaji), prays                     

    to the Sun by lighting a “deepak” (lamp), offers flowers grown on earth to                           

    the earth in prayer, in the same way, with God’s things, we worship God ! As                               

    such if it is seen, then the one to be revered is also God, the things used in                                   

    prayer are also God, the prayer is also God and the one praying is also God!                               

    God says    

    Aham kraturaham yajnah svadhaahamahamausadham 

    Mantro'hamahamevaajyamahamagniraham hutam 

    I am the Vedic ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the offering to the departed, I am                                   

    the healing (medicinal) herb, I am the Sacred formula (Mantra), I am the                         

    clarified butter, I am fire, I am the act of offering oblations into fire. I am the                                 

    object of knowledge, the purifier, the sacred syllable OM, and the three Vedas                         

     Rig, Sama, Yajur.   

     

    "Brahmaarpanam brahma havirbrahmaagnau brahmanaa hutam 

    brahmaiva tena gantavyam brahmakarmasamaadhinaa."  (Gita 4:24) 

     

    " The act of offering is God, the oblation is God. It is offered by God, into the                                     

      

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    Fire of God. God is verily to be attained by him who is absorbed in God in the                                   

    act of such sacrifice (yagna) " (Gita 4:24). 

    In this manner, by seeing God everywhere, the likesdislikes                 

    (attractionaversion) do not remain in the least bit, in an aspirant. The reason                         

    being that when everything is only God, then who will like or dislike and to                             

    whom?   

    Uma je Ram charan rat bigat kaam mad krodh | 

    Nij Prabhumai dekhahin jagat kehi san karahin birodh || 

    (Manas, Utter.  112 Kha) 

    There is one exceptional point that to experience that “All is only God”                            

    one does not need to do anything, nor does one need things (objects), rather                           

    one needs discriminative faculty (vivek) and feeling and sentiments (bhaav).                   

    There is quest to know in “vivek”, and in feelings and sentiments, there is                           

    acceptance (belief). Both discrimination and sentiments in the end merge                   

    into knowledge of Truth. In the path of knowledge, there is predominance of                         

    discrimination (vivek), and in the Path of Devotion (Bhakti marg), there is                       

    predominance of feelings and sentiments of the very existence of God. In the                         

    path of knowledge (jnana marg), first one knows, then one believes, and in                         

    the path of devotion, first one believes and then one knows. The end result                           

    of both is one and the same. It means that the outcome of knowing the                             

    Essence, the Truths, and the outcome of unflinching belief, is the same. In                         

    the path of devotion first the devotee accepts unflinchingly that “everything is                       

    only God”, then he attains realization of the Truth, that is he realizes, that                           

    “Everything is only God”.   

      

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    From the perspective of Jnanayog all modes (puritypassioninertia)               

    are born of Nature    

    "Sattva rajastvam iti gunah prakrtisambhavaah 

    Nibadhnanti mahaabaaho dehe dehinamavyayam."  

    (Gita 14:5) 

    Sattva, rajas, tamas  these gunas (modes) born of nature (prakriti) bind the 

    imperishable spirit to the body, O Mightyarmed. (Gita 14:5) and,  

     

    From the perspective of discipline of devotion (bhakti yog), all modes of                       

    nature are are manifestation of God    

     

    "ye chaiva saatvikaa bhaavaa raajasaastaamasaascha ye 

     Matta eveti taanviddhi na tvaham teshu te mayi"  (Gita 7/12)  

      

    “Whatever entities that exist, those that are born of Sattva (the quality of                         

    goodness), and those that are born of Raajasa (the principle of activity) and                         

    those born of Taamasa (the principle of inertia), know them all as evolved                         

    from Me alone. In reality, however, neither I exist in them, nor do they exist                             

    in me."   

    Therefore from the perspective of a Jnana yogi, whatever is seen, it is                         

    all in Nature, which is constantly changing, it is an interplay of modes.                         

    From the perspective of a Bhaktiyogi, whatever is seen, is all a form of God                             

    and everything that is  changing,  is God’s divine play.   

      

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    The world is neither in the view of the liberated, realized, or great soul who is                               

    a loving devotee of the Lord, nor is it in the view of God. He who has any                                   

    remaining worldly desires, i.e. he who has given significance to the world,                       

    from his perspective, the world is existent "yayedam dhaaryate jagat" (Gita                       

    7/5) By which the whole universe is sustained" (Gita 7/5) This desire for                           the world is itself the cause of the “seed” bondage in the form of birth and                               

    death    

     Vaasana yasya yatra syaat sa tam svapreshu paschyati | 

    Swapravanmaarane geyam vaasanaa tu vapurnrunaam ||   

     

    “Wherever a man’s desire lies, he sees dreams accordingly. As is the                       

    dream, so is the death i.e. according to one’s “vaasanas” (desires and                       

    tendencies), the last thoughts will be, and according to the last thoughts,                       

    man’s tenor will be.”   

    These “vasanas” (desirous tendencies) have been called by Gita as                   

    “Gunasang”     

    "kaaranam gunasangosya sadasadyonijanmasu |   

    (Gita 13/21) 

    "Attachment to the modes becomes the cause of its birth, in good and                         

    evil bodies."  (Gita 13/21) 

     

    If there are no desires than one will realize the nonentity of the                         

    embodied soul (jeev) and the world and the existence of God Vasudeva                         

    Sarvam  (All is God).  

      

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    In the Path of Knowledge, through discrimination, an aspirant                 

    becomes detached from the world and in the Path of Devotion, an aspirant                         

    through faith (and sentiments) sees the world as a manifestation (form) of                       

    God. Everything is only God is not the subject of discrimination (thought),                         

    rather it is the subject of faith (sentiments). Therefore “Everything is only                       

    God”     comes in the words of devotees.   

     

    As long as real and unreal, Brahma and World these two remain, till                           

    then discrimination (vivek) will remain. When the belief pertaining to the                     

    unreal, the world, is wiped out, no more discrimination will remain, rather                       

    only enlightenment will remain. Therefore, through discrimination, by               

    detaching from the world, and then seeing God, the existence of the world will                           

    remain, because, one only rejects, that which was believed to be existent.                       

    However, if through “Bhaav” (feelings and sentiments), if the world is seen                       

    as a manifestation of God, the world will not have an independent existence.                         

    As long as in the eyes of an aspirant, if God and the world are two separate,                                 

    till then in his life there will not remain uninterrupted bliss, rather there is                           

    bliss at times and sometimes lack of relish. Sometimes an aspirant sees                       

    significant gains in their spiritual practice, and sometimes he sees no gains                       

    whatsoever. Therefore the best of all spiritual practices is the one in which                         

    an aspirant sees the world as a form of God (Bhagwat swaroop). i.e. he sees                             

      

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    that it is God only in the form of the World.   

     

    Everything in only God to experience this, an aspirant must accept                       

    with a firm conviction that whether I am able to understand or not, whether I                             

    am able to experience (realize) or not, but this is the Truth. Even if he sees                               

    the biggest or the smallest of all things, he must accept, that in this God is                               

    entirely present. Just as the water element is entirely present in both a drop                           

    of water and in the entire ocean. In the same way, in a pile of dirt or in all the                                       

    earth all over this world, God is entirely present “anoraniyaanmahato                       

    mahiyaan” (Katho. 1/2/20, Shvetaa. 3/20). On believing so, at all times,                      

    within one’s mind one must prostrate to all.* By doing so, he begins to see                             

    God everywhere. If you see from one perspective, then in the path of                         

    knowledge there is sentiments of duality (dvait bhaav) and in the path of                         

    devotion there is sentiments of monism (advait bhaav). The reason being in                       

    the path of knowledge, there is differences between, Nature and Man, Real                       

    and Unreal, Brahma and World, Eternal and Temporary, inert and sentient,                     

    body and indweller, field and the knower of the field etc. But in the path of                               

    devotion, besides God there is none other. In the path of Knowledge,                       

    Brahm is real and the World is Unreal “Brahm Satyam, Jagatmithyaa”, but                         

    in the path of Devotion, both the real and unreal, and everything is God only                                

    “Sadasacchahamarjuna” (Gita 9/19). Therefore “Everything is only God”                  

    accepting so, he who takes refuge in God, i.e. who wipes out his                         

    independent existence (Iness), and becomes merged into God, God calls                   

    him a “Jnani” “Vasudeva Sarvamiti Gyaanvaanmaam prapadyate” (Gita                 

    7/19). Such a “jnaani” devotee, is extremely dear to God. “Priyo hi                         

    gyaaninotyarthamaham sa cha mama priyah” (Gita 7/17) and God calls him,                     

    His very own “swaroop” “Jnaani tvaatmaiva me matam” (Gita 7/18). The                       

      

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    point is that, “bhaav” sentiments are even more powerful than “vivek”                     

    (discrimination). Therefore, with “bhaav” utmost feelings and sentiments               

    seeing the world as a manifestation of God is the best of all spiritual                           

    disciplines. 

       

    Footnotes    

     

    * वाययु�मोऽि�नव��णः शशा�कः  �जाप�त��व ं��पतामह�च । 

        नमो नम�तऽे�त ुसह�कृ�वः पनु�च भयूोऽ�प नमो नम�त े॥ 

                     नमः परु�तादथ प�ृठत�त े   नमोऽ�त ु त े  सव�त  एवसव� । 

         अन�तवीया��मत�व�म��व ंसव� समा�नो�ष ततोऽ�स सव�ः ॥ 

                  (गीता ११/३९४०) 

            "Vaayurmognirvarunah Shashaank prajaapatistvam prapitaamahasch | 

    Namo namastestu sahastradutvah, Punasch bhooyopi namo Namaste || (Gita                 

    11/39) 

     

    You are the God of wind, God of death (yama), God of fire and water, the 

    moongod, Prajapati and the great grandfather of beings, Salutations to You, 

    salutations a thousand time and again salutations to You. (Gita 11/39) 

     

    Namah purastaadath prushtste, Namostu te sarvat eva sarva | 

    Anantaveeryaamitavikramastvam, sarvam samaapnoshi tatosi sarvah || 

     

      

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    "O' Lord of infinite prowess, my salutations to You from the front, the rear and 

    from all sides. O' All in all ! You who possess limitless might, and pervade 

    the world, You are omnipresent. (Gita 11/40) You are everything My Lord ! 

     

    ख ंवायमुि�न ंस�लल ंमह� ंच �यो�त�ंष स�वा�न �दशो �मुाद�न ्।  

    स�र�सम�ुा�ंच हरःे शर�र ं   यत ्     �क�च    भतू ं  �णमदेन�यः ॥ 

    (�ीम�भा॰ ११/२/४१) 

             "kham vaayumagnim salilam mahim cha | 

    jyotimshi satvaani disho dumaadeen || 

    Saritsamudraanscha hareh shariram | 

    Yat kinch bhootam pranamedanayah ||  

    (Srimad Bhagwat 11/2/41) 

     

    "Space, wind, fire, water, earth, starsplanets, creaturesinsects, trees, rivers, ocean                   

    – allinall is the body of God accepting so, a devotee prostrates in front of all with                                   

    undivided and exclusive feelings. 

     

    �वस�ृय �मयमानान ्�वान ्�श ं��डा ंच द�ैहक�म ्। 

    �णम�े     द�डव�      भमूावा�वचा�डालगोखरम ्॥ 

                                                                  (�ीम�भा॰ ११/२९/१६) 

              Visrajya swayamaanaan svaan drsham vreedaam cha daihikeem | 

    Pranamed dandvad bhoomaavaashvachaandaalagosharam || 

    (Srimad Bhagwat 11/29/16) 

      

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    "If our own people laugh then let them do so, do not be concerned about that, 

    rather the shame that one feels with their body, leave that as well, prostrate 

    laying flat on the ground in front of a dog, a beggar, a cow and a donkey. 

                Goswami Tulasidasji says    

    जड़ चतेन जग जीव जत सकल राममय जा�न । 

    बदंउँ सब के पद कमल   सदा जो�र जगु पा�न ॥ 

                                                (मानस, बाल॰ ७ ग) 

    Jada chetan jaga jeev jat sakal raamamai jaani | 

    bandaun sab ke pad kamal sadaa jori jug paani ||   

    (Manas.  Bala.  7 Ga)   

    आकर चा�र लाख चौरासी । जा�त जीव जल थल नभ बासी ॥ 

    सीय राममय सब जग जानी । करउँ �नाम जो�र जगु पानी ॥ 

                                                (मानस, बाल॰ ८/१)  

    Aakar chaari laakh chouraasi |  Jaati jeev jal thal nabh baasi ||  Siya Rama maya 

    sab jagah jaani | 

    Karaun pranaam jori jug paani || (Manas, Baalkand 8/1) 

    The meaning of saying “SiyaRamamai”  is that both male and female form,   all the 

    creatures and objects are a manifestation of “SitaRam”.  Whether you say “SitaRam”  aur 

    “RadheShyaam”  or “GauriShankar”  or “LaksmiNarayan”  it is all one and the same. 

    Narayana !  Narayana !!  Narayana !!!   

      

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