Surrender - Part 20

ATMA NIVEDANAM - SURRENDER / MERGER OF SELF WITH GOD

Dear ones,

We are reaching the climax posts in Surrender now.

Actually, after Swami’s explanation of Atma Nivedanam, we should put a full stop and end the SURRENDER session. However, few more words would flow on Atma Nivedanam with the  eternal conviction and realization of the truth that it is HE, who is speaking through us and it is His will that through this blog, author has to attempt to write  on selected topics, the clarity is also from Him,  poured through some chosen instrument that is me.

Bro. Ravi Nasery composed a bhajan "Tumhe Namaskar Sai Baba", which was learnt by us in Samarpan.

There is a line in the bhajan- "Prem Dakshina Sveekaaro Bhagwan". It aligns with the Arati line "Tera Tujhko Arpan Kya Laage Mera, Om Jai Jagdish Hare".

When we offer flowers, incense sticks, dhoopa, deepa and  all other types of naivedyam to the Lord, the Lord smiles and asks, "You thought you are offering some thing to me which is not created by me?".

While everything is understood to be created by a combination of  2 or more of the 5 elements and the 5 elements are themselves  known to be created by Him, there is only one thing which is not created by HIM  but is verily HIM - Love.

So, the singer sings, Prem Dakshina Sveekaaro Bhagwan, knowing well that if there is anything worthy of being offered to Bhagwan, it is Love, because only in that offering, the one who offers is Love, that which is offered is Love and the one to whom it is offered is Love! LOVE- LOVING-LOVE.

At the end of the spiritual journey, after several births of forgetting the Lord and playing in the maya jagat created by the Lord, man evolves gradually, step by step, in each birth, accumulates more and more of white arrows with his purushartha, starts from attraction towards God and ends in existing as Love that IS God.

The end has approached, the door for liberation has  opened, the 2 dwarapalakas- Raaga and Dvesha, Attachment and hatred,  the two most dominant  factors which have kept  man away from God in all his previous births till that moment have bowed down, unable to attack the Essence of Love that the devotee exists as,  and pave  the way for the devotee to enter the kingdom of God and merge with God.

The devotee's AHAMKARA  is gone long back, now the time for his pure AHAM to surrender.. ne... merge in the SUPREME GOD-BRAHMAN, the PURUSHA( Purusham eva idagm sarvam.......) !!


Love
(To be continued...)

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Swami Tapovan Maharaj