Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 6 : Swami Chinmayananda

SLOGAM-8.

KA  TE  KANTA  KASTE  PUTRAH 

SAMSARO  YAMATIVA  VICITRAH  

KASYA  TWAM  KAH  KUTA  AYATAH

TATTVAM  CINTAYA  TADIHA  BHRATAH.

KA = WHO IS,  TE  =  YOUR,  KANTA = WIFE,  KA  =  WHO IS,  TE  =  YOUR,  PUTRAH  =  SON,  SAMSARA AY = THIS LIFE,  ATIVA  =  SUPREMELY,  VICITRAH  =  (INDEED) WONDERFUL,  KASYA  =  OF WHOM,  TWAM  =  ARE YOU,  KA  =  WHO ARE YOU,  KUTA =  FROM WHERE,  TAV =  YOU,  AYATAH =  HAVE COME,  TATTVAM  =  OF THAT  TRUTH,  CINTAYA  =  THINK,  TADIHA  =  THAT HAVE ALONE,  BHRATAH  =  O BROTHER,  BHAJA  =  SEEK,  GOVINDAM == GOVINDA[LORD]

WHO IS YOUR WIFE? WHO IS YOUR SON?  SUPREMELY WONDERFUL INDEED IS THIS LIFE. OF WHOM ARE YOU? FROM WHERE HAVE YOU COME? O BROTHER,  THINK  OF THAT TRUTH HERE.

Intelligent enquiry is the only antidote for the follies of delusion. The method of enquiry to be adopted is being indicated here. Acharya Sankara asks us to enquire: who is your wife? who is your son? On analysis, we shall find that the beloved wife was a simple daughter of her father, until in marriage  you were tied to her. Life being so uncertain, nobody can foresee who is to part first, and in case it is your lot to precede her in death, there again she will be living as a widow. Thus,in life man and woman are born independently, and each one must die and depart alone. 

In the pilgrimage from birth to death, in the travel from life to death, at certain junction each met with the other, and thereafter travelled together, no doubt, serving each other--as all good- hearted  travellers always do. The companionship parts when destination is reached. By analysis, one shall realize the right attitude one should have in maintaining a healthy relationship with the world.

So too is the son. When you analyse your real relationship, you shall see that the son has become yours only after his birth. Before that it was a foetus. Before that it was only a seed in your loins, and that itself came from the food you assimilated. The food came from the earth. Thus a" clod-of-earth. Thus a 'clod-of earth,' in its various manifestations became the fruit, the food, the seed, the foetus, and the child, and therefore, the child itself is nothing but an effect of the ultimate cause, the mud.If you analyse yourself as the father, you too are nothing but the product of a clod-of-mud of another period of time and place. One piece of mud then gets attached to another piece of mud! How strange! How powerful is delusion--"MAYA".