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 man. It whips up, it slashes with a cruel cat's - tail on the back of man, because of the Urgency.

When the house is on fire, no formalities need be respected in waking up your respected parents, wife, or children. The Urgency of the moment demands that they must be awakened immediately.

Thus here, in Moha-Mudgara are a few criminally sweet slashes, with a kind-cruel whip of horrible impatience, coming with a hateful love for the welfare - of the beloved disciples - still sleeping in sorrows of Samsaram - when the house of life is blaze with death.

Introduction ends.

Next - MOHA-MUDGARA - BAJA GOVINDAM ( SEEK GOVIND ) BEGINS;

To be continued ....