King Brihadashwa worshipped his Gurudev with devotional faith. Quite often, he would sit in front of his Guru. He would look at him with fixed gaze as if looking at God Without even blinking his eyes. So the grace o fate supreme self manifest in the form of his Guru showered on him and his merits went on increasing. In his Kingdom, there was much yield agricultural produce due to proper and timely rain. Nature becomes favorable & bestows its bounty upon a virtuous emperor. Seeing his affluence and prosperity grow manifold, the King thought: “I should perform Ashamed Yajna. One who completes 100 such yajnas becomes Indra, the king of god’s. So the king started the endeavor. He went on perfuming the yajnas one after the other. At that time, Brihadashwa, s Gurudev was in Samadhi in a secluded place. When be come out of his Samadhi, he thought, I wonder what my disciple Brihadashwa, who gazed one pointedly at me with reverence and looked at me eighth a sense of oneness, I doing? The Guru perceived that Brihdashwa was entangled in the vain desire of amassing merits through the performance of one hundred ashamed yajnas. “Till date, he has already accomplished ninety two yajnas. He evil certainly tries to reach the set target o on hundred yajnas. After leaving this mortal sheath, he will attain the coveted seat o Indra and then for thuds or millions of years, he will enjoy heavenly pleasures. While living in my company, he grinded merits but his merits. Thereafter he will become a ma once again. O my God where is he heading to? From the human birth he can still diced towards lower births like to a deer, rabbit or ever of an insect.” The Guru willingly cast off his body and entered another. Such jivanmuka great men never identify themselves with the body. They always revel in the eternal transcendent but a mere sport for them. King Brihhadashwa’s Guru comes in the guise of a mine year old celibate boy exactly in ht same way as the Lord Vaman had come in the from of a celibate boy before his devotee Bail. By this time, Brihadaashwa had already completed impiety yajnas. The last yajna i.e. the hundredth on ewes being performed. One cannot escape three things even fret death. The first thin is one’s actions. Till the Karmas are not hunt by the fire of Knowledge imparted by a self realized Guru, on cannot escape them. One cannot part with the supreme Consciousness, God, Who never abandons us. Ad a true worthy disciple cannot escape the grace of sat guru The Guru came to Brihadashwa in the goose of a mine year old dwarf Vamdv. The king stood up to honor him. After worthy adoration of his lotus feet, the king offered him a venerable seat. Brihadashwa said, “My Lord seek for your command, any Brahmin who happens to reach my door step gets his wished fulfilled. It is ordained for the person who performs ashamed yajna that the bagging Brahmin should be provided anything he asks for. My Lord, There is mothering in this world which is impossible for me to gift to you. So, I wait for your orders. Ill certainly give it to you,” The Brahmin young boy said, What if you so back on your word?” “MaharjiI ll never word?” “Then make a donation pledge” Lord sat guru asked the King to swear exactly the same way as Lord Vaman had put Bali under an oath by giving water in his palm. The Brahmin: Make a pledge that you will provide me whatever I ask for.” Brihadashwas: “Maharaja I premise to give you everything you ask for. You many demand one thousand gold coins, or maybe ten thousand gold coins. Even if you ask for my center Kingdom, I’ll have to give, for the performer of Ashamed yajna is ordained to keep his promise.” The Brahmin said I do not ask for any thing else that all that is yours should become mine.” The compassionate sat guru asked for that which makes Brihadashwa a liberated man. Such a liberated soul would he have to bear the affliction I mother’s womb never is he subjected to attacks f passion ad never joss he suffer the consequences of virtuous and sinful actions. “Neither it is desirable to indulge in enjoyments not to bear sufferings; If one intelligent, it is desirable to attain the supreme.” The disciple was perfuming yajnas for sense enjoyments. The Guru said, all that is yours’ should become mine The King was oblivious of the fact that the Brahmin was his Guru. Thinking him to be a brilliant Brahmin, the king gave him at the at he possessed. Thereafter Vamdev said, you given me the Dane. Now give me dakshina At this the King started looking towards his son but Vamdev said, Brihadashwa, all you possession are already given to me.” Wherever his mind went, the Guru reminded him of the fact that now he owned everything the king possessed earlier. The king became discomposed. His mind was agited ad he dozed off for a moment. Maybe it was his own reverie, the sacred resolve of his Guru of the effect of divine Maya. The King says his own death and was taken to lhte infernal world where his account of Karmas was being checked. The messengers of the god of death told him, “You not accomplished the targeted one hundred jajnas. So you are not eligible for the coveted celestial seat nard. Yes you can be considered for the post of Upend. With the sense of doer ship Hopewell have performed virtuous actions you will experience happiness as the consequences of your virtuous as the consequences of your virtuous deeds but the effect of aberrations ad miscalculations also falls into your account. For the performance of so many yajnas, you exploited your subjects by levying numerous libations to ht fire god, many insects were consigned to fire…” All this will result into nothing else but misery which you are bound so suffer. So whether you want to enjoy the pleasures of Upendra of bear than wages of your sins, the choice is purely yours.” Brihadashwa said, “It is better to suffer the miseries first and them enjoy the pleasures.” The next moment he was thrown into a desert. He was scorched by the hot sand. The scorching effect of hot sand is much painful swooned due to unbearable pain. Upon coming to senses, he reflected, why did the messengers of lhte death god shove me off to his place? I offered everything that belonged to me given to ht Brahmin including merits as sins of my actions, then who so I experience the fruit of sins?” Brihadashwa said, O King of death, what an injustice indoor realm I had given all that I possessed then why was I thrown to bear this intense desert?” Saying this saw Vamdevji smiling at him. With the will of Vamdevji Brihadashwa could perceive his Gardena’s form in him.” Brihadashwa said astonishingly, “Guru your Majesty I committee mistake.” Vamdeji said, “My son undoubtedly you made a plege by saying” whatever is mine, is given to thee’ but even then a strng desire of enjoying the fruit of virtuous deeds persisted in you mind.Comsequnntly you were flung in to a desert. Now renounce these desires also. Along with the desire to again dethrone of Indra, you will have to bear the miseries of desert life also. Not only this time and again, will you have to bear the woes in mother womb as well. So you should not pin for the seat of Indra or any other god. Neither should you desire it become Andy demy god or acaelestial musician. You just b resolute to your oledge that” Whatever is mine is given to thee.” Thereafter neither the merits not the sins will belong to you. Simultaneously the sense of jivahood will also vanish. Thereafter you will become one with me” Thus the Guru saved Brihadashwa form the temptation of Indrd’s throne and diverted his disciple mind from the troubles associated with satisfaction of desires. Instead he instructed him on renunciation of desires. After listening to the voluble precepts of his sat guru, the devoted disciple attained” That which is described in the Gait as...”to which having gone they return not that is my supreme abode. Heartened self knowledge having attained which there is no return ever to the mundane worked. If you want to attain that supreme state, touch the tongue to his plate. Contemplates as you inhale and HUM when you exhale. So ham (THAT IAM)…. Sarcoma (All that exists I me)…Chaidakashoham. Attain to the resolve less sate through this highly superior and subtle sadhana and establish yourself in the state of Brahmic ब्लिस.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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