Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 44

Sutra 35. Tattu Vishaya Tyagat Sangatyagaatccha.

[Devotion to God is attained by abandoning all sensual pleasures and all attachment to sensual objects] 

Tat: that (Prema. supreme devotion); 

Tu : now 

Vishayatyagaat : from abandonment of sensual objects 

Sangatyagaat : from renunciation of attachment 

cha : and. 

The consciousness of 'I' and 'Mine' in everything you do and deal with is the strongest of all attachments . 

If there is craving when objects are renounced the renunciation is not true renunciation. Renounce the craving. This is real renunciation. 

One may subject himself to deliberate renouncing, run away from the world, take to recluse in a solitary place, deprive himself of all worldly comforts, sit down for meditation but the mind may still run after all the worldly pleasures. He feels most desperate and even chides himself for having left the world!!!.

So, the real renunciation is renouncing the CRAVING, wherever one lives. May it be in Himalayas in a cave or in the busiest city!!!

There can be devotion in a mind only when the mind is freed from all cravings. One enjoys supreme bliss and peace through renunciation of objects of enjoyment. 

Without Tyaga or renunciation no spiritual progress is possible. 

One should practice internal and external renunciation. 

External renunciation is absolutely necessary in the early stages

Internal renunciation is essential at all times. 

In the initial stage in devotion, when the mind travels behind all sensual pleasures, it is absolutely necessary to control one's mind and channelize towards God.

This is most difficult in the path of sadhana, may it be in devotion or in Jnana. 

No detachment is actually possible without the discrimination that the sensual pleasures, the attraction in this glittering world is all temporary and cannot fetch permanent, everlasting happiness.

The discrimination referred above is VIVEKA and the fruit that VIVEKA gives is VAIRAGYA,  dispassion towards all that is known as temporary, through VIVEKA.

It is detaching from world and attaching to God.

Later on, the very attachment to God results automatically in spontaneous and automatic detachment from the world and its objects.



So, it is detach to attach in the beginning which by itself results in Attachment resulting in automatic detachment.

Here are the nine means of cultivating Bhakti. Sri Rama says to Sabari : 

1)The first means, it has been taught, the company of the good 

2)The second is conversation about My achievements

3)The third is recital of My virtues 

4)The fourth means will be occupation of expounding my words  

5) The fifth is, 0 gentle one, constant and sincere worship of the preceptor, thinking that I am he  

6) The sixth means has been said to be virtuousness, self-restraint, observance, etc., and ever living attachment to My worship 

7) The seventh is said to be religious service with every detail, reciting the mantra specially applicable to Me; greater adoration to My votaries, consciousness of Me in all beings, indifference to external objects, together with internal peace, make up 

8 & 9) The eighth; and, 0 lady, the ninth is the consideration of My essence. O auspicious one, devotion in the form of love is produced in any and every one who employs this means in the shape of ninefold (secondary or instrumental) devotion, no matter whether one be a woman or a man or gone to the inferior creation. 

And as soon as devotional love is produced, one feels My essence, as it were and one who becomes accomplished by the awareness of Me, attains Me. He attains liberation even in this birth Therefore it is sure that devotion is the Source of Salvation.”

Love.

PS- It is worthwhile to refresh our memories with a blog post in detachment posted ling before, on a Quote by Swami Chinmayananda.

The link to that post is given below

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1610524805172322992#editor/target=post;postID=3965023794733898527;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=10;src=postname

Love