Dear All,
Now we come to the last part of 5th verse.
He does not work for his personal pleasure and
profit. He has no enthusiasm for selfish or worldly pursuits. He is not
affected by success and failure.
How can a devotee be enthusiastic about anything
? A man undertakes a work on account of the pleasure in it or of the pleasure
that it will bring. There is no more work to be done by a devotee of God-realisation
. He enjoys the highest bliss .
When the devotee has the fountain of all bliss
by his side, how can there be any desire for him for the enjoyment of worthless
and trivial sensual pleasure ?
He does not desire or crave for anything
because he has no ego, he is filled with Divine Love and he feels therefore no
want. Desire exists only so long as the ego or the sense of separateness with its
concomitant imperfection exists.
The sum total of all the
pleasures of the universe is like a drop when compared to the ocean of Bliss ;
i.e., God, who is the source of all these pleasures. Nothing tempts the Bhakta
who has attained His Love. As a man who gets nectar to drink will not be
tempted to drink in a muddy pool of water, just as a man who gets a bagful of
sugar-candy will not hanker after black jaggery, so also a devotee who has got
that Supreme Bhakti will not hanker after anything whatsoever.
He sees the Lord
in all, and all in God. Therefore he ceases to perform actions of his own
volition. A similar idea is expressed in the Bhagavad Gita, “He who neither rejoices nor hates, nor grieves, nor
desires, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me.”
(Chapter XII— 17).
Thence forward, he becomes the instrument of God; he performs actions without his own Sankalpa, without desire or attachment,
in accordance with His Will for the well-being of the whole world.
Author's special note
This verse has few expressions as under:-
Na kinchit vaanchati: Does not desire anything
Na Sochati: Does not grieve
Na Dweshti: Does not hate any one feels enmity
Na Ramate: Neither rejoices in anything
Na Utsaahee: Does not have the enthusiasm to act for his own interest.
All these are read in the context of "Yat Praapya - Having obtained/ deserved and won the Love of God".
It is to be noted after reading the elaboration of each of the
Once the devotee is soaked and immersed in the Love of God, his state is like a piece of Gulab Jamun is immersed in the sugar syrup/ essence which is there in the utensil in which the gulab jamun pieces were dropped.
Before the piece which did not have any sugar content was immersed in the sugar essence in the big utensil which has been heated up, the piece was separate and the sugar essence was separate.
Now, after it is placed inside the utensil, then can any one say that a particular part of the gulab jamun is sweet whereas some other part is not sweet??? Can any one say that the inner part is more sweeter than the outer part??
The reader has to go to the sweet shop, pick up a fresh piece of Gulab jamun, place it on the tongue, enjoy every piece of the sweet getting in, to actually experience the above expression.
Similarly, a man, devoid of experience of Love of God, when he immerses in divine love of God, then his identity as a whole gets immersed in divine Love.
When his identity of Ego is gone and his identity is only LOVE, then tell me, O reader, from where he can bring a part of his identity now, which can grieve, which can hate, which can have selfish motive which can have any desire??????
This brings the 5th verse to end.
Love.
