This is from my beloved Teacher Shyam Das i love this Sloka.from the path of Pushti Marg. The Lovers life in action.... Sloka 15: Never lose faith. If you do, it will impede your every situation Understand lack of faith from the story of Hanuman and the Brahmastra weapon, Understand faith from the tale of the chataka bird. Perform seva, His pleasing engagement with what is obtained free of false ownership. Reflections: Weak spiritual conviction strikes the devotional heart, it festers uncertainty, clouds clarity, and brings about a host of obstructions that gather before the bhakta on her way to the Beloved. Two examples are given, one of faith the other of doubt. In every case, false identification with regards to attainment should be renounced. When the Beloved is disregarded because of a break in trust, it is due to not understanding the nature of the Beloved. It ruins the subtle dharma of refuge, and then certainty in all matters is lost. With the loving power gone, discursive mind takes control. An example of lack of faith is found in the story of Shri Hanuman, the great monkey god, son of the wind and perfect Ram bhakta. Hanuman went to Shri Lanka in search of Lord Rams wife, Shri Sita. There, the demon king Ravana, knowing of Hanumans arrival had his powerful son, Indrajit ensnare the powerful Hanuman with the mystic invincible weapon, the Brahmastra. Hanuman was immediately contained by its spell. Because of the mystic nature of the Brahmastra weapon, its binding cords cannot be seen. The others, seeing Hanuman apparently captured, but without any sign of shackles, decided to further secure Hanuman with ordinary ropes, thus disregarding the rarefied powers of the Brahmastra. They were unaware of the fact that as soon as you place a doubt over the Brahmastra, it immediately loses its effect. Its power diminished, Hanuman then freed himself and wreaked havoc over Shri Lanka before returning to Lord Ram who was then ultimately able to rescue His beloved Sita. The teaching is direct. If the practitioner looses faith in refuge, then the power as well as the dharma of His shelter is lost. With the cords of love sundered, the untrusting heart wanders. When the heart becomes divided in dedication, the essence is lost in the divide, it forms a opening and the nectar seeps out, sometimes unnoticed. Divided dedication brings a loss of spiritual couplehood. The mystical chataka bird is a guru of conviction. This amazing bird refuses all other waters, except for rain water that falls only during a fifteen day autumn lunar cycle. Besides those rains, the chataka bird will taste no other water, regardless of source. It has set its heart on the one. Because of its faith in those clouds, regardless of circumstance, when the time is right, the clouds shower for that blessed bird. It is its confidence and trust in those waters that bring about the downpour. Similarly, the lover has all of her sacred desires quenched by the Beloved. Her faith lets her see that Hari makes all that is necessary arise. Her conviction produces unshakable refuge and it brings an end to all other hankerings. She knows that what is needed is obtained without effort and once attained, no false sense of ownership is placed upon anything. With the understanding of Haris desire, the false ego is dissolved, myness no longer prevails. All circumstances, relations, attainments, everything that comes into the lovers life is used for Him. Her applications are subtle.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:32:03 +0000
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