HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

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Another New Year ....Another Birthday....Another Life....

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Namaste all.

 

I'll try to give the general meaning of this 'spiritual self counsel' in the

Telugu kirtan by Saint Sri Annama Acharya: " nanati brathuku natakamu.. "

 

The material life of all individuals, lived through with out Spiritual

realization, is like a fiction, like a mere drama of events,

until he or she attains liberation from the world of Maya.

 

Taking birth and passing away from the material body appears to be

true but all that happens in between is simply an entertaining drama.

 

Eating many delightful foods and wearing different designer

costumes appear to be real but all in between remains purely a show.

The material world seems to be experienced by the gross body and senses

externally,

but Self realization is internal, subtle and beyond the mundane enjoyment.

 

In the material world, one accumulates both, good and evil karma

(fruits of action) by one's own deeds of the drama of one's life.

Only after the escape of the individual from this bondage of his or her karma,

salvation is possible.

 

The sinful actions and reactions can never be severed totally by the

individual.

The effects of one's merits and pious actions are inexhaustible!

The unending actions of the drama of life are kept recurring for the

individual birth after birth by the mysterious time!

 

The Saint Sri Annamacarya in his signature verse declares that liberation

is beyond all heavenly realms, and only the Lord on the Hill, Sri Venkateshvara

Himself bestows the salvation upon His devotee.

 

Dr. Jaya

 

Jaya Sri Radhe!

 

Note:

Another excerpt (from radha kutir) which also explains

the roles of Papa (sin) and Punya (merit) in attaining liberation.

 

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......... Another beautiful aspect of Maha Raas episode is that, on the

one hand, only those Gopis who could run to Krishna on the Yamuna bank

that night were able to enjoy His company;

 

on the other hand there were a few Gopis who were restrained from

going by their husbands or other relatives and were locked up in dark windowless

rooms. They also got instant liberation.

 

" duhsaha preSTa viraha tIvratApa dhutAzubhAH

dhyAnaprAptA chyutA zleSa nirvrttyA khINamangalAH "

 

(Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.10)

 

Such liberation can only come when their stock of Punya (merit) and

Papa (sin) gets completely exhausted so that the soul does not have to get

embodied any more as there is no stock of either Punya or Papa to be

experienced.

 

In the case of the latter category of Gopis who were locked up in dark

rooms with no exit, they were utterly miserable and their entire bodies were

burning in the 'fire' of separation from their beloved Lord.

 

Experiencing such untold and extreme misery exhausted their stock

of sin (Papa).

 

Likewise while meditating on the Lord, they found themselves, in

their imagination, embracing the Lord and experiencing the utmost Bliss.

This extreme joy exhausted their stock of Punya (merit).

 

Having thus exhausted all their Prarabdha of merit and sin, they were

immediately relieved from the bondage of 'Samsara' (cycle of births

and deaths), left their bodies and attained liberation.

 

This is the height of Sadhana, intense longing for the Lord alone is

the key to salvation.

 

Jaya Sri Radhe!

 

 

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