'Awareness' and 'Reality'! When they drift apart, the underlying surreptitious 'Cause' , once comprehended, is but a 'Surprise'! To elaborate, We are all pretty well 'aware', in minutest detail, the best attributes behoved of us to pursue in this worldly existence to realize 'Salvation'. To be more specific, understanding the ephemeral nature of worldly possessions, discarding 'Selfishness', indulging in more and more dissemination of love and compassion, gradual involvement in acquiring spiritual knowledge through holy scriptures, participating in religious discourses, paying visits to the holy saints and shrines and spending more and more time in inward journey ! But in 'reality', we are all not being able to escape from succumbing to worldly attractions, passions and consequential misdeeds! The 'Root Cause' for this however turns out, rather 'surprisingly', to be the 'Play of Illusion' by the Almighty. Once we are able to comprehend this, is it not wise for us to turn to the same Almighty by way of total surrender for our Salvation !
The way of our being caught unaware in the Illusions of this world despite of our 'knowledge' and the noble way of escape from it, is being dealt in the sankeertana, "Adi Ne Neragana Antalo Bhramatu Gaka", by the poet savant Annamacharya......
'O Lord! I am well aware of all the noble requisites for the realization of salvation. But still I surrender inadvertently to the Play of Illusion of the Almighty and indulge in all worldly matters. Please provide me the right knowledge and intelligence to extricated myself from this entanglement.
'What of use having plethora of worldly knowledge. It is not at all helpful (for salvation). Instead, contemplation on the Almighty showers a million benefits. Notion of deriving entertainment with pleasure in the engagement of the strange persons is mistaken and fruitless. Instead, spending more and more in the company of the spiritual nobility pays off dividends.
'Curiosity about the news of happenings at various places around the globe is cause of one's woes. Instead, sparing time on perusal of holy scriptures (purifies the mind) and becomes cause of peace and piety. Indulgence in agriculture and business remain as physical strain in the end. Even the performance of deeds as per one's customs and traditions leaves one with dissatisfaction in the end.
'O Lord ! All the relationships we enter into are but our open willful entanglements. (I realize)The service to our 'Sadguru' is the means of deliverance. Hence, O Lord! You are the One to grace us with double effect; One, By taking care of us in passing through this worldly existence and two, By granting blissful eternal life in the other worlds!'........
Our human nature of side tracking into the mud, cleansing and repeating the same time and again with full knowledge is detailed here with a view to correct ourselves from being carried away by the baits of seemingly pleasure troves of 'mirages' of this world!
The way of our being caught unaware in the Illusions of this world despite of our 'knowledge' and the noble way of escape from it, is being dealt in the sankeertana, "Adi Ne Neragana Antalo Bhramatu Gaka", by the poet savant Annamacharya......
'O Lord! I am well aware of all the noble requisites for the realization of salvation. But still I surrender inadvertently to the Play of Illusion of the Almighty and indulge in all worldly matters. Please provide me the right knowledge and intelligence to extricated myself from this entanglement.
'What of use having plethora of worldly knowledge. It is not at all helpful (for salvation). Instead, contemplation on the Almighty showers a million benefits. Notion of deriving entertainment with pleasure in the engagement of the strange persons is mistaken and fruitless. Instead, spending more and more in the company of the spiritual nobility pays off dividends.
'Curiosity about the news of happenings at various places around the globe is cause of one's woes. Instead, sparing time on perusal of holy scriptures (purifies the mind) and becomes cause of peace and piety. Indulgence in agriculture and business remain as physical strain in the end. Even the performance of deeds as per one's customs and traditions leaves one with dissatisfaction in the end.
'O Lord ! All the relationships we enter into are but our open willful entanglements. (I realize)The service to our 'Sadguru' is the means of deliverance. Hence, O Lord! You are the One to grace us with double effect; One, By taking care of us in passing through this worldly existence and two, By granting blissful eternal life in the other worlds!'........
Our human nature of side tracking into the mud, cleansing and repeating the same time and again with full knowledge is detailed here with a view to correct ourselves from being carried away by the baits of seemingly pleasure troves of 'mirages' of this world!
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