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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

Meaning by Vairaagyam, Sayujyam and Kaivalyam

 

When you cut all your bonds of love on all the things and on all the people in

this world, it is called ‘Vairaagyam’. But this stage is not sufficient. The

reason for this stage should be the love formed on the Lord. Due to this new

bond on the Lord, all the old bonds must be cut. If the new bond does not exist

and simply the old bonds are cut, that is only salvation. A stone is also having

salvation because it does not have any bond on any thing or any body in this

world. If one leaves the family and the house by taking Sanyasa, all that is a

waste, if he has not taken the Sanyasa for the sake of the Lord. The new bond

with the Lord (Bhakthi) should be the reason for the detachment from all the

other bonds (Vairaagyam). Only Vairaagyam is useless without Bhakthi. If Bhakthi

is achieved, Variraagyam is automatic. There is no need of any effort for

attaining the Vairaagyam. If you have tasted the divine nectar (Amrutham), you

will automatically discard the other drinks. Without

tasting the divine nectar, you cannot leave the drinks. Even if you leave the

drinks without tasting the divine nectar, you will go to the drinks after some

time with very high vigor. Therefore Vairaagyam without Bhakthi is not only

waste but is also impossible.

 

Just see this example. A young man loved a girl for the past one month. The

parents are not agreeing for the marriage. But the young man cuts all his bonds,

which were developed, with his parents for the past twenty-five years due to

this one-month-old new bond! The million births old bonds are cut by a single

new bond developed with the Lord in human form in this birth. Swami Vivekananda

could cut all the family bonds for the sake of the divine work of His Satguru

(Rama Krishan Paramahamsa). Similarly Gopikas could cut all the family bonds for

the sake of the Lord in human form (Krishna). A small atom bomb can destroy huge

mountains.

 

Narada wrote that one should love the Lord as a lover loves his or her darling

(Jaara Vatcha). He also gave the example of Gopikas in the next Sutra (Yathaa

Vraja Gopikanaam). Such love involves the practical sacrifice. The lover is

leaving his or her parents practically to go along with his or her darling. Even

if the parents threaten stating that they will not give the property if he/she

marries his/her lover, the boy or the girl is prepared to leave all the property

for the sake of his or her lover. When the parents manage to kill him or her,

she or he is committing suicide. Therefore for the sake of the lover one can cut

all the family bonds, bond with wealth and money and even the bond with the

life.

 

When you can do these things in the case of the lover, how can I believe that

they are impossible things in the case of the Lord? This means that you don’t

have that much real love on the Lord. Holy Jesus told that one should cut the

bond even with his life for the sake of the Lord. If something is impossible,

that should be impossible every where. The new love is called ‘Saayujyam’ and

‘Kaivalyam’. Saayujyam means becoming close to the Lord. Kaivalyam means

becoming one with the Lord. Kaivalyam does not mean merging in the Lord

physically. Whatever the devotee says, the Lord will say the same. Whatever the

devotee wishes the Lord wishes the same. This is vice-versa also. Such oneness

is called Kaivalyam.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

bindu <bindu wrote:

Bhakti and Desire

When a person goes towards the outer eality ........... that person is turning

towards the world and then Sri Hari makes him search in the world for HIM...

until the jiva (soul) gets exhausted, dies or gives up searching and returns to

thinking of Sri Hari