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Him is extremely dear to Him.
SrI cinmayAnanda refers us to the gItA Slokam 12. 14 - mayyarpita manobuddhir
yo mad-bhaktah sa me priyah.
The dharma cakram writer elaborates on the attributes or qualities of the
devotee whom bhagavAn praises. This devotee :
1. shows kindness to all,
2. has overcome anger,
3. considers pleasure and pain as equal,
4. is pure in thought, word and deed,
5. dedicates all his actions to bhagavAn,
6. is neither happy when he obtains objects of pleasure nor unhappy when
he is faced with objects of displeasure,
7. is neither positively influenced by praise nor negatively influenced by
unkind words, etc.
Lord kRshNa describes such a devotee in Chapter 16 of the gItA among other
places.
b) SrI Samkara's vyAkhyAnam is - stotA api sa eva, sarva AtmakatvAt - so He
is the Eulogizer as well.
SrI cinmayAnanda obsrves that the true devotee who sings the divine hymns
of the Lord dissolves in the Lord (becomes one with theLord), and is in at-onement
with Him.
nAma 689. r[iày> raNa raNa-priyah
raNa priyah
a) He Who delights in battle.
b) He Who delights in the auspicious sounds in places of worship.
c) He Who moves around happily in the form of the Sun etc.
raNa-priyAya namah.
The word raNa has two meanings - raNa gatau, raNa Sabda arthah- it can mean
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