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卐 सत्यराम सा 卐

मन प्रबोध 

दादू नीका नांव है, तीन लोक तत सार। 

रात दिवस रटबो करो, रे मन इहै विचार॥४॥ 

टीका ~ परमात्मा का नाम ही सर्वश्रेष्ठ है। यही तीनों लोकों में तत्व या सार है। इसलिए हे जिज्ञासुजनों ! अपने अन्त:करण में यह निश्चय करो कि प्रति क्षण में ईश्वर का चिंतन करें। अब विशेष वर्णन प्रस्तुत साखी में ततसार पद का उल्लेख है। इसका अभिप्राय यह है कि तत्व का अर्थ तत् पद से लक्षित ईश्वर का वाचक है अर्थात् तत् कहिए ईश्वर और ईश्वर की सत्ता सगुण, निर्गुण उपाधि भेद से दो प्रकार की है। इस विकल्पात्मक स्थिति में प्रश्न उठता है कि तत् पद से केवल सगुण ईश्वर को ग्रहण किया जाये या निर्गुण को ? उत्तर :- शब्द के दो अर्थ होते हैं, एक वाच्यार्थ जो कि शब्दार्थ है और दूसरा लक्ष्यार्थ जो कि भावार्थ है ॥४॥ 

शब्दार्थ बुद्धि से तत्व का अर्थ होता है सगुण ईश्वर और लक्ष्यार्थ बुद्धि से निर्गुण ब्रह्म का बोध होता है। अब जिज्ञासुजनों के संदेह निवारणार्थ सार पद का उल्लेख करके दयामूर्ति ब्रह्मर्षि सतगुरुदेव ने लक्ष्यार्थ निर्गुण ब्रह्म के प्रति संकेत किया है, क्योंकि केवल वाच्यार्थ ही अभीष्ट होता तो सार पद का वर्णन करते। परम आचार्य ब्रह्मर्षि दादू दयाल महाराज निर्गुण ब्रह्म के ही उपासक थे, इसलिए यही लक्ष्यार्थ में प्रमाण है। 

गुरु दादू पै आइयो, शिष्य होण इक वृद्ध। 

या साखी सुण लग रह्यो, मग्न भयो अरु सिद्ध॥ 

दृष्टांत :- ब्रह्मर्षि दादू दयाल महाराज आमेर में विराजते थे। एक रोज एक वृद्ध पुरुष ने महाराज को आकर नमस्कार किया और अपने उद्धार का साधन पूछा। गुरुदेव बोले :- बाबा, राम - राम किया करो। कुछ दिन बाद संतों ने कहा :- बाबा, बैठे - बैठे आप राम - राम ही करते हो ? कुछ साखी श्लोक याद किया करो। बाबा बोले :- गुरु महाराज का तो यह आदेश है कि रात - दिन राम - राम कहो। अब रात दिन में से कोई और समय होवे, तो आप मुझे बताओ आपके साथ साखी शब्द याद करूँगा। रात - दिन तो गुरु महाराज की आज्ञा का ही पालन करूँगा। साधु चकित हो गए। बाबा राम-राम के प्रताप से वचन - सिद्ध हो गये। 

(श्री दादूवाणी ~ स्मरण का अंग) 

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Krishna and Bhagavad Gita 

SUNDAY STAR STORY: (U will love it & its message) 

So many religions! So many gurus! So many mutts! So many advices! What to follow? Confused?

Read this story: “YES MAN” - "Rowing Along the Wind" 

A rich landlord had a flattering servant, a "yes man" who was always most deferential to his master only because he desired reward. 

The master asked the servant one day, "What is your opinion of potatos?" 

The servant was hesitant in his reply. "Oh, my dear sir, I suppose I've never thought about potatos much, really. But it would be most edifying for me to hear your opinion of potatos." 

The landlord said, "Well, as far as I have experienced, the potato is the most delicious of all the vegetables one can get at the market." 

But even before the words had left the landlord's mouth, his YES man was already praising potatos to the sky: "Oh yes, yes my lord, it's true, potatos are the best, the absolute best vegetable in the marketplace. Really delicious! Excellently delicious, pleasantly delicious, highly tasteful and dainty. It is said:' "this round potato--boil it in rice, boil it in water, fry it in ghee, mix it in curry, put it in soup or salad, or make a pickle from it, or serve it with sauce, or make it into kofta-- whatever recipe you may choose, this round potato is omnipresent.' Is there any other vegetable comparable to it? None whatsoever. The potato is second to none--unparalleled!"

The landlord then observed, "What you say is all very well, but as much as we might like them, potatos do tax our health if we eat them too often. It's a rather passionate kind of vegetable." 

"Oh yes, yes, yes, how true, how true", the servant spoke up immediately. "It is really a passionately passionate vegetable. Causes the body to heat up, it does, excessively passionate. Very difficult to cool it down. Oh, and what health problems it will cause if we're not careful. Flatulence, cholera, diarrhoea, diabetes, phthisis--all these spring from that round potato!" 

The landlord put another question to the servant. "Tell me, what do you think about eggplant?" 

The servant folded his hands humbly and replied, "My lord, I was just thinking of asking you the same question. Let me hear your opinion first, please. How is the eggplant?" 

"Well, I have nothing bad to say at all about it. The eggplant is a nice vegetable, as far as I know." 

"Oh, that's true, true, true! So true! Even if you just look at it, you see immediately that the eggplant is the most beautiful of vegetables. And it makes a complete meal! If we get two pieces of fried eggplant on our plate, what else do we need? It tastes better than butter. If a man had nothing at all in his pantry." 

except one eggplant, he'd still be considered by others as well off! You can roast it, fry it, cook it in curry, make a chutney out of it--whatever way you like, eggplant proves itself extraordinary among vegetables. And among the different kinds of eggplants, the laaphaa eggplant stands out as supreme. It is an excellent creation of the Supreme Lord." 

The landlord then added, "All that may be true enough, but eggplants are not very nutritious." 

"Phew!" exclaimed the YES man. "And that's why it is called vegun, because ve(no) gun(quality), it has no qualification at all as nourishment. Simply like cow dung, like cow dung--even cow dung has some potential value, but vegun, that eggplant has no value whatsoever. It is troublesome, most troublesome! It makes the mouth itch worse than wild turnip or esculant root! Not only that, eggplant brings bad luck! That's why it should be roasted before serving." 

The landlord retorted, "I see you are a very strange fellow. When I say, 'potato is good', you elaborate, 'potato is very good.' And when I say, 'potato is bad', you plead that it is very, very bad. When I say, 'eggplant is good', you glorify it to the heavens. But if I then say, 'eggplant is bad', you reject it from the category of foodstuffs. Don't you posses any personal integrity?" 

Bowing and scraping, the servant replied with this torrent of deference: "Oh my lord! Please have mercy and condone my offenses. Now I'll speak the truth. Lord, I am not the servant of a potato. I am not the servant of an eggplant. I am your servant! So whatever you say, I must say likewise. A potato will not provide me with an earning, and an eggplant will not give me work that I may have a purpose to 

my life. I am only your servant, so your your voice should be my voice." 

MORAL: 

There are many religions, sampradhayas and spiritual persons who are speaking so many things about god and the ways to attain Him. For example, some selfish priests or spiritual leaders will say something to establish his position in his activity and they will brainwash the devotees there to retain them always with him & serve them. Even these servants will always praise their leaders from sky to earth so that he can always be in the good book of that leader. If they brainwash more people, he is praised by his leader. 

The syncretist, like the landlord's ‘yes man’, performs the most amazing verbal acrobatics in order to show himself a pious follower of all the world's scriptures and teachers. But his real purpose, like the yes man, is to simply insure his material prosperity through flattery. 

So, even wrong concepts will be spread by both selfish spiritual leaders and his servants. Every person will preach as if his concept is correct. 

Worried with so many concepts about Himself (Lord) that confuses the people, merciful Lord Krishna Himself directly consoled us in the last chapter of Bhagavad Gita: 

“Abandon ALL VARIETIES OF RELIGION and surrender unto me.” 

He also assures: “My devotee never falls” 

So, do not bother about so many concepts in spirituality and so many spiritual leaders who are claiming that he only is superior and the ashrams that claim that it alone is the authoritative, etc. Have the support of a good guru if you get one. JUST CATCH THE LOTUS FEET OF LORD KRISHNA. ABONDON ALL THE FORMALITIES AND TRUST ONLY KRISHNA. BELIEVE HIM. HE WILL RELIEVE YOU FROM ALL THE KARMIC EFFECTS AND ACCEPT YOU. Just chant the Lord’s name and be safe. His Name is superior to all the dharma. This was said by Lord Himself.