Why is ‘Naam’ called ‘Amrita’ ? From Brahma to the meanest insect, everyone fears death. Sooner or later death will come with its huge open mouth and swallow everyone on the appointed day, thus every living creature is frightened of death. Since a person becomes immortal by drinking ‘Amrita’, ‘Amrita’ is considered to be the best substance in this world. Hence one compares ‘Naam’ with ‘Amrita’. Though it is contended that there is no greater substance than ‘Amrita’, ‘Naam’ is held to be greater. Though the Gods became immortal after drinking ‘Amrita’, which came out of the churning of the sea, it did not end their sorrows, jealousies and pain. Indra, the king of gods, is always restless lest someone, by dint of his ‘Tapasya’, takes away his kingdom from him. This fear always bothers him. If one performs severe austerities, Indra has to take to so many subterfuges to disturb his ‘Tapasya’. But he who succeeds in his ‘Tapasya’, first attacks the kingdom of heaven and drives away the Gods from there. Then Indra, along with other Gods, has to roam about the earth like human beings. Therefore, though the gods have been immortalized by drinking ‘Amrita’, their sorrows and difficulties have not abated. But one, who has drunk this ‘Param Maha-Amrita’ ‘Naam’, has no fears left in this world or in the next. He is constantly floating in the sea of ‘Ananda’. By gaining love which is like full ‘consciousness’, he lives in this world but is still out of it. The whole world transforms itself for him into God that is consciousness. Nothing remains for him except God. He sees God, eats God, hears God and talks God; — there is no second for him except God. Gazing at the mountains, the sky or the sea, he thinks of the infinite forms of the Infinity and loses his small ‘Aham’ (ego) in that limitless ocean. Then he stays speechless having lost all sense of himself and his own self as well. Sometimes he prostrates himself on the ground to do ‘Pranaam’ to men or women, animals or birds, trees or creepers, insects or worms thinking them to be the same as his Beloved’s loving body; sometimes the internal touch of God sparks off a sense of ‘Ananda’ (bliss) in him and he starts dancing raising both his arms like a mad man. “The great Bhakta sees in each animate or inanimate object nothing but the projection of Sri Krishna. Looking at any object, living or inert, he does not see its form, but sees in it the image of his Ishta Deva only.” — Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita. Sometimes he behaves as Arjuna did when he said — “Thou art Vayu, Yama, Agni, Varuna, the Moon, Prajapati and the Great-grandfather. Salutation, Salutation to thee, a thousand times, and again and again salutation, salutation to Thee.” And he starts doing ‘Pranaam’ in front of him, to his rear, to his right and left and to above and below. Sitaram, Sitaram, Sitaram Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. (Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath in Sri Sri Naamamrit Lahiri)
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 06:16:29 +0000
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