Sadhnaa and Marriage

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu prayed:

 

nAhaM vipro na ca nara-patir nApi vaizyo na zUdro

nAhaM varNI na ca gRha-patir no vana-stho yatir vA

kintu prodyan nikhila-paramAnanda-pUrNAmRtAbdher

gopI-bhartuH pada-kamalayor dAsa-dAsAnudAsaH

 

(PadyAvalI 63)

 

"I am not a learned brahmana, nor

a men-ruling kshatriya nor a business man, vaisya,

nor am I a poor servant of the rest like the sudra.

 

I do not belong among the different

social classes of varnasrama,

neither am I a MARRIED householder grihastha,

nor a retired vanaprastha nor a renounced sannyasi.

 

But I am a simple follower of the servant maid of

the servants of the Lord Whose lotus feet are the refuge

and sustenance for the blessed cowherd maidens, and

Who is the paramount nectarine ocean of universal divine bliss!"

 

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"Let me (if need be) be born as man or celestial, as wild beast or

mosquito, as animal or worm, as bird or any other creature.

 

What harm can accrue from these embodiments,

if in every such birth my heart always feels inclined to disport in

the waves of Supreme Bliss consisting in the REMEMBRANCE of Thy lotus

feet ?"

 

"O Lord! What does it avail a man to be a student brahmacari, a

HOUSEHOLDER, an anchorite, a mendicant or one outside these four

orders?

 

O Master of all beings!

Bestower of all good!

He whose heart-lotus comes in Thy possession -

to him Thou becomest his 'Own', and Thyself bearest his worldly

burdens."

 

(Sivanandalahari. 10, 11- Jagadguru Sri Adi Sankaracarya)

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!