Verse 20
भगवद्गीता
किञ्चिदधीता गङ्गाजललवकणिका पीता ।
सकृदपि येन
मुरारिसमर्चा क्रियते तस्य यमेन न चर्चा ॥ २०॥
bhagavad gītā kiñcidadhītā
gaṅgā jalalava kaṇikāpītā,
sakṛdapi yena murāri samarcā
kriyate tasya yamena na carcā
To
the one who has studied the Bhagavad gītā even
a little, who has sipped at least a drop of Ganges water, who has worshipped
Lord Murāri at least once, there is no discussion with Yama, the Lord of Death.
In this verse, Sankara gives us a three-fold exercise for the
spiritual unfoldment of the soul, so that one may discover the true
Joy / Bliss, which is the subject of the previous verse.
Reading Bhagavad Gita
Sir E. Arnold wrote, “The central teaching of the Bhagavad Gita is
the attainment of freedom and final release from bondage”.
Bhagavad Gita is the contemporary supplement to our ancient
Upanishads. If properly understood and meditated upon, one would realize that
it is the essence of Vedanta.
Thus, a little but in depth study of Bhagavad Gita can link a
spiritual seeker with all other treatise and can take him to great spiritual
heights
Take a dip in Ganges
River Ganges is sacred not only because it flows from the Jata or
the hair lock of Lord Shiva but because, it symbolically points to and stands
for the unbroken flow of spiritual wisdom handed over by the Master to his
disciple, generation by generation.
Similarly, Ganges, which may appear to be just a river, elevates
a sincere spiritual seeker to an elevated state when he takes a dip and sips
the sacred Ganges.
Worship Murari
It is man’s ego which arouses desires in him, making him ignorant
of his divine nature, causing him to act as per the prompting of his ego filled
desires.
With such acts, man accumulates Karma and is born, he dies and he
is born and thus he goes through this never ending cycle of birth and
death. Man is thus caught in Samsara and is ultimately filled with a little
happiness and lot of pain and sorrows.
What else can save a man from this transmigration, except his
surrender at the feet of Murari, the Lord??
Who else but Murari, the slayer of demon mura, can slay the devil
mura in each one of us, which is our ego??
As explained in a recent session by the author, such a man who has
undertaken this threefold path, is free from fear of death, for, he has
realized that the body is indeed perishable and it must die one
day.
He has realized the secret of the line “Mrutyor ma amrutam gamaya”
and bows to Murari / Sai who has listened to his prayer flowing from his
heart thus:-
Sathya
sanathana antaryami
Sakala
charachara (ke) tum ho swami
Janam maran
se paar karo
Bhava
bandhan se uddhaar karo ..........
Araj suno
mere parama kripalo
Pathiswara
Sai deva!!!!,
and... has in fact taken him beyond the fear of death
(of his body) and elevated him to exist as SELF, which has no death, as it
never had any birth.
What discussion will such a yogi have with Yama, when
the moment of his (physical) death comes?? It is then Yama, who would
prostrate to such a noble saint and take his body with reverence!
Love.
