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| Evarikivare Yamuna Theere
Endukeragavee Satyamu Manasa
Puttinavaaru Gittakatappadu
Chaavuputtukalu Prakriti Dharmamu
Everyone is for himself
Why don't you realise this truth Oh! Mind!
Those who take birth have to die
Dying and being born are nature's dharma.
This song is one more in the Prabodha Gita style, where the singer representing the Antaratma, the Inner Dweller, as represented by Buddhi (Intellect) is tutoring the mind of the Sadhaka. "Evarikivare Yamuna Theere" is a Telugu idiom meaning that in this world, especially at the time of entering or leaving, each soul is left to fend for itself and no one else will come. All the relationships of father, mother, wife, husband, child etc., start and stop with this world. Before coming into this world, We were separate from these souls. And after we leave this earth, we will again be separate from them. This rule of course, has exceptions like Sri Parvati always takes birth as the consort of Sri Siva, Sri Lakshmi is always born to wed Sri Vishnu etc. Actually these examples are not exceptions to this rule but support it because, they, the Gods and Goddesses, are not bound by the laws of Karma, which govern ordinary mortals like us. And they are bound together because each of them represent a pair of Purusha and Prakriti with a specific predominance of Satva, Rajas or Tamasik Guna and all of them originate in the same Para Brahman and Para Shakti, who are Nirgun.
Due to the power of Maya, we forget this truth (that our relationships are transient) and develop all sorts of positive attachments to the near and dear and by the laws of averaging, negative attachments to those who are near but not dear i.e. whom we don't like. So if we remember that before this birth, we were strangers to the people whom we love or hate and that after we or they leave this life, we will again become strangers or if not strangers become neutral acquaitances, we won't develop the strong positive or negative attachments, which become bonds and tie us to the wheel of birth and rebirth. If we just remember that we have to leave this world one day (this rule, even the Gods and Goddesses follow to show that they too obey the laws of nature and return to nature the bodies they have borowed from nature), we will certainly not be so much attached to things either material or emotional.
.. Evarikivare ..
Janma-maranamula Valayamanduna
Bandeevani Neeveragave Manasa
Kamamuvalane Phalamu Vachchunu
Nishkaamakarmame Muktiki Maargamu
In the birth-death vicious circle you are imprisoned don't you know Oh! Mind! From desire only you get result Desireless action is the way to liberation from this prison.
As already explained above, the attachments come due to ignorance and the likes and dislikes develop depending upon whether the other person is an accomplice or an impediment in fulfilling our desires. Thus all our actions are dictated by selfish motives, of what the action will give us. We do good actions to get good results and we resort to negative actions out of frustration or out of jealousy or to remove the obstacles in our path. Even good actions can generate bad effects. Actually, we cannot do some thing good without somewhere causing some harm to some creature or creation of God. Thus all Yagnas and Yagas, all Pujas and Tapas done even for the welfare of the individual or the society around him do generate some negative result because, knowingly or unknowingly some animal or insect or even so-called 'inanimate' objects are being troubled in this process.
The simple act of preparing and eating one's daily food, which is needed for survival of the body generates atleast 5 Sins, Panchasunas as explained in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Chapter 9, Page 52 (Sins arising out of 5 steps in preparing food, pounding, grinding, washing pots, sweeping cleaning and lighting the hearths. Even the 6 types of Yagna, (Brahma Yagna, Vedadhyayan, Pitri Yagna, Dev Yagna, Bhoota Yagna, Manushya Atithi Yagna) prescribed as the antidote therein, themselves may generate some sin. Thus any good action is by law, bound to generate some bad result. This is called the vicious circle of The Wheel of Karma. So, as long as one does any action with the intention of enjoying the fruit of the action, i.e., one is propelled by Kama, desire for the reward of Karma, one is trapped in the wheel of Death and Rebirth . After the death of the physical body, the Suksh ma Deha, the minute body of the mind and the desires, goes to heaven or hell depending upon the preponderance of the good and bad actions and in many cases, as per the choice of the individual soul. But it is more or less certain (if we believe the scriptures and in rebirth) that we have to enjoy the rewards of our good acts and suffer the results of our negative acts and take birth again on this earth plane. Thus the real lesson to be learnt has been forgotten and has not been learnt so there is no
Promotion to the next class. This earth and the human birth has been truly compared
to a class-room.
Only after a number of births and due to God's and Guru's grace, the individual soul learns the futility of hankering after the temporary temporal pleasures and the true knowledge takes deep root in the mind, intellect and the heart of the soul that true liberation can be achieved only by giving up the desire for the results of one's actions.
.. Evarikivare ..
Maanavajanma Durlabhamainadi
Minchinadorakadu Samayamu Manasa
Manchini Penchuko Marmamu Telusuko
Mariyoka Janmakai Vechi Choodaku
Human birth is difficult to get This time, if passed, won't come again, Oh Mind!
Increase good, understand the secret For next Birth, don't await
Of all the 84 lakh varieties of forms of creation, the human birth is considered the most precious and is envied by even the Gods, since it is through the human birth alone that a Soul can realise true Brahma-Dnyan (Jnan) and realise Moksha from this cycle of death and rebirth. (For a good explana -tion of the importance of the human birth, pl. see Chapter 8 of Sri Sai Satcharitra). Having got with great difficulty the human birth, one should not waste this chance. If the time is wasted, we don't know when we again get another chance. So we should not procrastinate and postpone what is good. We must understand what is good, knowing the secret of
Sakamya and Nishkamya Karma. When we are asked to increase the store of good
merits, what is implied is that we should do good acts, without getting attached to
the fruits of the action. And we need the guidance of a Sadguru for this evolution.
Once we surrender our egoes at the Holy Feet of Sadguru Sai Nath and follow His directions, wholeheartedly, all our actions become good. He takes responsibility for all good and bad actions of ours.
.. Evarikivare ..
Kaliyugambu Bahukashtatharambu
Viduvaka Saagani Saadhana Manasa
Paramaathmuni Madi Nilipi Koluvama
Venkatesuni Padamula Cheruma
Kali Yuga is full of troubles Let your practice go on without break, Oh Mind! Keeping the Paramatma in mind, worship Oh Mind! Reach the Holy Feet of Lord Vekateswara!
Kali Yuga is considered to be full of diffciluties for practising Dharma. Temptations of food and other sensual desires make our mind wander from God. So, it is all the more essential to be vigilant and let the practice of remembering His name, go on unbroken. Though Kali Yuga is considered to be difficult, it is also a fact that God, in His Kindness, has assured His devotees that remembering Him is the simplest and surest Sadhana for this Age! So, remembering God's and Guru's name in our mind, and worshipping them, we will surely reach the Holy Feet of His abode, from where
there is no return. HE has taken the name of Venkateswara, to give Abhaya (protection), and Assurance of protection from Sin, since He is free from all Sins! So once we reach His place, we too are freed from both Pun ya and Papa and the consequent cycle of birth and death!
.. Evarikivare ..
Om Sri Krishnaarpanamasthu.
Posted by: Mr. Siri Siri At: 4, Apr 2003 5:33:41 PM IST
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