Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 9 : Swami Chinmayananda
Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's BHAJA GOVINDAM : 1- INTRODUCTION - 9 : Swami Chinmayananda 09/05/2019 1. INTRODUCTION : 9. Therefore, a true disciple is one who is being taught by the teacher, and who, as a result of the understanding so gathered, has now become more and more introvert than what he was before, and is one, who has started independently to curb and control all sense - appetites, and the vagaries of his emotions and thoughts. Such disciple were the audience to whom Bhaja Govindam was addressed. If these stanzas are not silencing the arguments of the opponents of Advaitam, they are not in any sense of the term a mild, soft, musical chant that gurgles through the heart of soft emotions and generates a feeling of divine sentiments temporarily in a man - of - heart; there is no such softness about this. These thirty stanzas have crack-whip style and effect about them. There is no softness, no delicate consideration in the approach to correct the erring ma...