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Pranam to my Guru Krsna.

Meerabai sings,

‘Ranaji Main to Govind Ke Gun Gasu,

Raja Roothe, Nagari Rakhe,

Hari Ruthaya Kahan Jasu,

Ranaji Main to Govind Ke Gun Gasu!’

Since childhood I have literally been having an affair with Lord Krsna and am crazily in Love with Him. Those days Meerabai bhajan’s used to come on radio and with my mother I also used to listen to them. I still sit enthralled and enraptured while listening to them and cry my heart and eyes out.

When one does not understand the deeper meaning one tends to take literal meaning of the bhajan. So I always considered Meerabai and Ranaji to be different entities and never considered the bhajans to have any deeper meaning associated with my life.

During Satsangs, Guruji taught us to always look for deeper meanings and to not take everything at literally at face value. We were having The Bhagvad Gita Satsangs those days and Guruji had taught that Arjuna is no one else but us, it is our story.

So one day when I was listening to these bhajans, I pondered and wondered what the meaning could be and then realized what it meant. Sharing my understanding here. So in the bhajan Meerabai says, Ranaji Main to Govind Ke Gun Gasu, Raja Roothe, Nagari Rakhe, Hari Ruthaya Kahan Jasu’

In this worldly life Ranaji is the world, the relationships, the attachments, they go away or break off and new ones will form. But one must keep on singing the praises of the Lord and hold steadfast to him, if the relationship with the Lord breaks off where will we go! To cross this ocean of life and reach His eternal abode, to be with Him, is after all the purpose of this human life!

A few words just flowed out and putting them humbly at the feet of my Krsna!

Oh My Krsna, I sing your praises,

While holding steadfast to your feet.

I beseech you forsake me not,

To the waves of the ocean of worldly life,

For they toss me hither and thither,

And try hard to take me away from you,

And try hard to take me away from you!

Oh My Krsna, I sing your praises,

While holding steadfast to your feet.

Om Sri Guru Krsna

Meerabai's Bhajan

Pranam to my Guru Krsna

After all I am a human,

How much can I bear?

After all I am human,

To carry on is not easy!

After all I am human,

Fear, weakness and insecurity,

Are but close friends!

After all I am human,

I stress fairly easily!

These and countless other feelings and emotions are what almost all of us face. In the midst of difficult times, it is with trepidation that we face every day. At such a time to keep faith is an impossible task.

Well one day I went with these thoughts to my Guru. My Guruji spoke with me at length giving me strength and a lot of courage and kept on telling me to have faith. When I continued to sit with a morose face, he filled a glass of water and put a drop in it from a small bottle and said to me to drink it. I picked it up and as I was about to drink he stopped me and said that he had put a tiny drop of cyanide in it. I immediately put the glass down and looked at him totally bewildered!

He explained, ‘Doubt is like that tiny drop of cyanide in this water, which you refused to drink. When you say you have faith in God, then where has your faith gone in your difficult time? Your doubt poisons and destroys everything completely! This is the time to hold firmly to your faith and have implicit, complete faith and trust in God. It is only when you have complete faith that you will find answers!

God lives in you, the essence of God is the spirit that keeps you alive. Calm down and listen to the voice from within, it is only when you calm down will you be able to hear it. Listen to it and follow it, the 1^st thought that comes to your mind is by the inner voice, you can also call it the voice of God or your Guru and you will be guided onto the correct path!

As for being just a human, you will be as human as you want to believe you are! Whereas when you implicitly believe and have faith, you are strengthening the divine who lives in you and then that divinity will shine through you.’

So-

After all you are a human,

Through whom Divinity shines through,

Through whom Divinity shines through!

Om Shri Guru Krsna

Pranam To My Guru Krsna!

My discovery of how God has placed each individual in the right place!

Almost everyone in their life sometime or the other have said that maybe they are not the right person for the job! I too have said it and this invariably comes up in a fight or an argument. I was facing great difficulty in business and was in an extremely tight spot and there was this discussion between my husband and me. I was cribbing about the issue and my husband was continuously telling me that I have to come up with the answer and invariably in the back and forth it turned into an argument. I stomped off saying, ’Maybe I am not the right person for the job’

I was mulling on this for a couple of days and was feeling quite upset and depressed,all the while thinking, ‘Why did God have to put me in such a situation?’ ‘Why can’t I do the things required?’ In this vein a dozen questions for which I did not have answers kept on popping up in my mind. Mind as they say is the devil’s workshop, it kept on adding more fuel to my fire. And I went further down, in my self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth, mind kept on badgering me further and further and I thought that I was the worst person ever to be given this job! My husband kept explaining to me that my thinking was wrong and that I could do it. My patent answer was, I am not the right person and then I would just clam up and go into my shell.

This was the time that our Gita Satsangs were on and in my morose mood I was listening but not paying too much attention! Then Guruji said, ‘God has put everyone in their right place and in the right time’ This caught my attention and I started listening keenly. I was still wondering about this and then Guruji said, ‘Does God not know what he is doing? Will he give a potter a carpenter or a painter’s job? Not that the potter cannot do the other jobs, but his job is pottery and he should excel in it!

Guruji continued, ‘What makes you think that you are not the right person, so you doubt God? Now tell me when the CEO of a top company has to appoint CFO, CTO and all the other senior staff, is he just going to employ people left right and center or will he pick and choose after careful considerations,that candidate whom he considers as the right one! If the CEO does this for running his company, then the Lord who needs his world run,will he not choose the right candidate.’ Another example Guruji gave, ‘When you want to buy a cell phone or a car,in your budget don’t you go look around and select the best your money can buy? So think, he has placed you on this earth to do His job, why can you not understand and

Krsna teaching Arjuna
At Kurukshetra

believe that you are The Right Person, in The Right Place and at The Right Time’ Stop this silly thinking and get on with your job! Use that wonderful mind which he has given you to go in the right direction. Remember mind can either make you or break you,then why not take its help to make you. What’s stopping you? So go, go out there and do His job as you are The Right Person for The Job!’

On hearing Guruji’s these words I got like a big jolt of surprise and just sat literally in shock. I felt that he was speaking directly with me alone rather than a whole group and how did he know that I needed that explanation. Then I remembered that a Guru always knows, as the Guru is Eternal Mother and a mother always knows what her child needs. I felt very humbled and highly motivated after the Satsang and since then made every effort to not let such thoughts enter my mind. The Lord has placed each person in the right place, it's our duty to do our job to the best of our capability.I humbly thank my Guruji for this profound teaching and wonderful explanation.

Om Shri Guru Krsna

Pranam To My Guru Krsna.

Since childhood I had grown up listening to Meerabai's bhajan's and even now every time I put them on I just become lost listening to them. Bhajan’s sung by Lataji and Vani Jayaram I had heard on radio as mummy used to have the radio playing while she was working.

As I grew older I listened to them on the cassette player, later on Youtube and phone. The sweetness of the lyrics used to touch a cord somewhere within and I used to wonder at their meaning. As I did not understand the true meaning many times I played them literally in a loop hoping to get at least an inkling! When that did not happen I ended up taking an absolute literal meaning of them. I had often asked my mother as a child about it and she used to smile sweetly and tell me that it is what I am hearing, on my insistence she used to say that I will understand when the time came. I even asked my Guruji and he said the same.

A bhajan which really enthralled me was and is, 'Shyam Mane Chakor Rakhoji' Literal meaning is, Meerabai is requesting Shyam

(Krsna) to keep her as his servant. And while doing the work she will get his darshan.

One morning while cooking, this was just after our The Bhagvad Gita’s Satsang’s had started, this bhajan was playing in the background on my phone. I was contemplating on the meaning of this bhajan in my today’s life’s context as Guruji had mentioned that there is a meaning. A little amount of understanding had come while listening to the satsang and as I listened to the bhajan in a loop, it’s deeper meaning came to me.

My understanding of ‘Shyam Mane Chakor Rakho Ji’

Shyam is the life force within me which keeps me alive and Mane is I, I am the body/tool!

So Meerabai is asking Shyam to make her his tool and Him the operator.

Like I wrote in my previous blog, I believe we are put on earth to fulfill a purpose, so when the Lord makes us His tool then the purpose of this life gets fulfilled! Ramkrishna Parmahansa used to say that he was the tool and Ma Kali is the operator.

Another line is, ‘Chakari me darshan pawu’

When I perform my duty faithfully as prescribed, I will be blessed with your holy vision. My life will be fulfilled when I get the Darshan of my Lord!

Laki humbly places her learnings at her Guru Krsna’s feet and entreats Him to guide her.

Om Shri Guru Krsna.

The Bhajan Youtube Link

Flowers at His Feet

A few days back when I was speaking to an acquaintance about my Love and devotion to my Krsna who is also my Guru, she point blank asked me, ’What is the use of being a devotee, a lover of Krsna? What has it got you in life? Have your troubles and or issues got elevated? Your difficulties solved?’ She went on in this vein for quite some time and I just let her spew out all that was troubling and irritating her.

Then I spoke to her from my heart.

A true devotee/bhakt, a lover of Krsna is just that, a devotee and a lover. I love Krsna with a non-transactional love, when I love Him he loves me back with the same intensity that I love Him. That does not mean that He won’t love me if I do not love Him. He is Love personified and Loves regardless of whether one does or not!

It is a non-transactional love, meaning that when I Love Him, it is not for getting worldly benefits, my love is not payment or bribe for getting material gifts or getting my problems and issues solved!

A very long time back my mother had said to me that I have been blessed with a pair of perfectly formed hands, legs, body and a brain. I should in my life make proper use of them and make my life. Work hard with my body and smartly use my brain to solve the many issues which come up in life!

Krsna also teaches that God helps those who help themselves. So just because I love Him, is he supposed to solve all the issues. He surely can, but then why am I there? If all the work he only is supposed to do, then I will just be sitting on my butt and enjoying all His efforts. I will just become lazier and lazier. So why not I help my own self and he will surely help me!

What does my devotion and love give me? Strength, confidence and Faith! Strength to continue doing my work and face everything that life brings to my doorstep! Confidence in Him and myself to take steps to solve my issues! Faith that no matter what he is always by my side.

So, how does a Lord who is not visible work? He works through me, my body is His temple and my heart His abode. The one main reason that I have been given this human life is so that I can Love Him and work towards reaching Him and pray to Him that when the time comes I submerge in Him!

At the end of our conversation I do not know if what I said made a difference to her, but I do know that all that I said gave me more strength and I felt at peace!

Jai Sri Guru Krsna!

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