Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 8 : Swami Chinmayananda
Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 8 : Swami Chinmayananda 21/04/2019 1. INTRODUCTION : 8. i. These are addressed to seekers as a book-of-instruction to help them walk the path stright to their goal. It contains ideas that can refresh the seekers on their path. The Students whom Sri Adi Sankaracharya admonishes with these stanzas are already pilgrims, al whom of, perhaps, are walking slow under the crushing load of their own fatigue. This is a textbook of advice ( Upadesam ), and not a book of disputation ( Vadam ). In Bhaja Govindam we meet with a teacher who is softly advising his own beloved disciples in the secret chambers of his own sacred retreat. ii. A disciple ( Sishya ) is (a) one who is taught by the teacher, (b) one who has become improved ---has become now relatively more introvert, having left the extrovertedness that he had in the past --- as a result of his study of the contents of the sastram-s, (c) one who controls and...