Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 83

Sutra 79. Sarvadaa Sarvabhaavena Nischintaih Bhagavaaneva bhajaneeya.

[The Lord alone should always be worshipped by one whole-heartedly free from all cares and anxieties.]

Sarvadaa: always

Sarva Bhaavena: with the whole heart, through every aspect of life

Nischintaih: by those free from all cares and anxieties

Bhagavaan eva:  the Lord alone

Bhajaneeya: should be worshipped.

Chinta means ‘thinking’, ‘reflecting’, ‘being anxious about’.

Sarvabhaavena: Bhaava is mode of existence; in all their modes of existence, and in all their moods. In every aspect of life, the devotee must have only God-consciousness. In his attitude to the members of his family, to his friends who do good to him, to those who do evil, to his superiors and to his inferiors, in every relation that subsists between him and others he has only God-consciousness.

Bhagavan: He who has all glory, all power and all wisdom, i.e., the Lord.

Bhajanam: worshipping. ‘Bhaj’ literally means to ‘share in’ to obtain for oneself, to partake of. Bhakta is one who shares all the glory, power and knowledge with the Lord.

To share also means that a true Bhakta is the one who gives, who shares, who does any thing and everything for the God and the God alone. Thus, all our thoughts, words and actions must hence forth be aligned only and only with the God.

‘Nischinta Bhajana’ is complete concentration of the mind on God without a break at any time.

Dear Bhaktas,

Let us get a little more deeper to the most powerful expressions given in in thus sutra.

Sarvadaa: always

Sarva Bhaavena: with the whole heart, through every aspect of life

Nischintaih: by those free from all cares and anxieties

Bhagavaan eva:  the Lord alone

In the path of Jnana, there are these 4 pre-requisite qualifications such as Viveka, Vairagya, Shad Sampath and Mumukshatva.

With all these qualifications acquired, a proper Guru sought and intense meditation and absorption undertaken, when the God comes to such a sadhaka (Coming of God here means, the sadhaka getting the experience of SELF / Atman which is the core of Jnana path), the God comes like a King for whom you have to clean up your entire house (cleaning here means, you have made all the preparations of 4 qualifications, sravanam, mananam, nidhidhyasanam etc.). So, the God, like KING, JUST COMES AND OCCUPIES YOUR HOME (HEART).

Whereas, in the path of Bhakti, the God comes like a maid servant in the sense that you have to only invite the lord and He Himself comes and undertakes the ordeal of cleaning your home (cleansing of all your impurities within your heart), decorate your heart (with purity) and makes your home pure and perfect!!!!

We have, in our  life,  so many wants, so many desires. We say, "I want a good wife, I want a good education, good career, good bank balance, good power, good name, good fame, good pleasures etc..So, we want, want and want!!!!"

In the path of Jnana, you have to really go inward to annihilate all these passions by exercising dispassion, detachment etc.

In the bhaki, what we have to do???

Talking of Sarvabhavena mentioned in this Sutra, when a devotee went  and submitted to Sri Rama Krishna and said, “Thakur ji, I have lots of lust, I just don’t know how to overcome this lust, greed, desires”, to which, Sri Rama Krishna asks back- “Who asked you to get rid of all your desires, all your greed??”

The devotee who is shocked to receive such an answer, Sri Ramakrishna clarifies and says, "Just do one thing, divert all those desires, all that greed, all your wants intensely to GOD, rest, God will take care".

When and only when we are able to follow this simple practice, then like the maid servant example explained before, the God Himself will work through us and all the dispassion, detachment etc. will automatically happen. 

No meditation, no nidhidhyasana, no intense practice of vairagya etc., Just Love God. God will occupy your heart in such a way that there is no scope, no room, no chance of any passion, attachment, greed, lust any more for the external objects. It is all then Love, Love and only Love for and Love of God.

So, the actual problem is not our restlessness, our ignorance, our desire, our sufferings, our pain, our ego etc.

THE ACTUAL PROBLEM IS THAT WE DO NOT LOVE GOD WHOLLY, AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUTRA WHICH SAYS,

“THE LORD ALONE SHOULD ALWAYS BE WORSHIPPED BY ONE, WHOLE-HEARTEDLY, FREE FROM ALL CARES AND ANXIETIES”.

Love.