Vishnu - Nagesh D. Sonde

A normal human often wonders why God does not shower grace and
compassion on him as a natural consequence in spite of the many visits to holy
places, innumerable austerities and penances performed according to prescribed
rites and rituals. God certainly is not influenced by performance of the external
activities unless the self within is pure and propitious. Therefore one should guard
his self being influenced by external attractions, since Lord has pierced the senses
to be receptive to external influences and not to the self within. Therefore one
should think of such thoughts, speak such words and perform such actions which
do not get attracted by the diverse manifest forms influenced by senses but by the
all pervading and all-comprehensive Lord who dwells within.
Angelus Silesius explains the predicament and the solution for him when he
says, „Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he is not born in
thee Thy soul is still forlorn. The Cross on Golgotha will never save thy soul, the
Cross in thine own heart alone can make thee whole‟. In India much earlier the
ancint men of Wisdom have rightly pointed out in Chhandogya Up. that therein
this city of Brahman is an abode, like a small lotus flower ; with which there is
small place. What is there within, that should be sought, and for that assuredly is
what one should desire to understand. - „! Aqa yaidismanba`*mapuro dhrM puNDrIkM vaoSma
dhrao|ismannantrakaSastismanyadntstdnvaoYTvyaM tWava ivaija&aisatvyaimait ||‟. Therefore, people who
are ignorant of this reality, look forward for Gods in the external World for
deliverance, performing external acts of piety, austerity and penance, in spite of
clear injunction that “yaWacaa|naByauidtM yaona vaagaByauVto …yanmanasaa na manauto yaonaahuma-naao matma\ … yaccaxauYaa
na pSyait yaona caxaUMiYa pSyait … yacC/ao~oNa na EauNaaoit yaona EaaotimadM Eautma\ … ya%pàNaona na p`aNaIit yaona pàNa:
p`NaIyato | tdova ba`*ma %vaM ivaiw naodM yaiddmaupasato ||”. Such actions are bound to fail in disaster
since they have not been directed to the Supreme God, who abides with of the size
of a thumb, AMgauYzmaa~: puruYasto maQya Aa%maina itYzit and whom all the gods worship.
yaona rUpM rsaM ganQaM Sabdana\ spSaMa-Sca maOqaunaana\ |
etonaOva ivajaanaait ikma~ piriSaYyato | etWO tt\ || 3 ||
(Nachiketa inquires): „By whom is energized the form, the taste, the smell, the
sound and the touch of camaraderie?‟ (Yama replies) „By this One alone one
knows, why in other places do you inquire ? This, verily, is That‟.
Bhashya :
“[dM gau(M ba`*ma p`vaxyaaima yaqaa marNaM p`aPya jaIvaao Bavait tcca p`vaxyaaima jaIvaoSvarBaod&apnaaya | ya: kmaflaBaao>a
sauYauP%yaaidmaana\ sa jaIva: | ya: p`layaaidYau jaIvaoYau sauPtoYau jaagait- sa: ivaYNau: prM ba`*mao%yaqa-: | naih jaIvasya
yaaonyaaidgamanaM ba`*ma || jaIvaad\Baodona &atM ih ba`*ma yaqaavad\ &atM Bavait ||” - I am communicating the
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