Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 7 : Swami Chinmayananda
Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 7 : Swami Chinmayananda 27/03/2019 1. INTRODUCTION : 7. 7.1 Though it is classified as a devotional song ( Stotram ) the chorus alone can be truely designed as a prayer verse. The rest of the thirty stanzas, with scientific precision, dissect the shell of thoughtlessness that veils the glory in man kind and forces him/her to be helplessly stupid in his/her relationship with the world outside. The verses, on the whole, can be considered as a "Book of categories" ( Prakriya ), in the science of Vedanta. 7.2 Unlike the other manuels of Vedanta - Atma Bodham, Vivekacudamani, Panchadasi, and others ... Bhaja Govindam gives, within the limited canvas of its composition, a moreelequent pictureof the art of realisation and is deeper diagnosis of the human unhappiness. It not only indicates to the students the goal and path, but also reveals unto hin/her wrechedness of his/her present way of life, th...