The words of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj...




आँसू बहाने से अन्तःकरण शुद्ध होगा, याद कर लो सब लोग, रट लो ये कृपालु का वाक्य। भोले बालक बनकर रोकर पुकारो, राम दौड़े आयेंगे। सब ज्ञान फेंक दो, कूड़ा-कबाड़ा जो इकट्ठा किया है। अपने को अकिंचन, निर्बल, असहाय, दींन हीन, पापात्मा रेअलाइज करो, भीतर से, तब आँसू की धार चलेगी, तब अन्तःकरण शुद्ध होगा, तब गुरु कृपा करेगा। गुरु की कृपा से राम के दर्शन होंगे, राम का प्यार मिलेगा और सदा के लिये आनन्दमय हो जाओगे

'इस जन्म में न हो, अगले जन्म में भगवान को पाऊँगा' यह कैसी बात है? ऐसा ढीलाढाला सुस्त भाव नहीं रखना चाहिए। उनकी कृपा से उन्हें इसी जन्म में प्राप्त करूँगा - मन में इस तरह का जोर रखना चाहिए, विश्वास रखना चाहिए। इसके बिना नहीं होगा। ढीलाढाला भाव अच्छा नहीं। अपने में जोर लाकर, विश्वास के साथ कहो - 'उन्हें जरुर पाऊँगा, अभी इसी क्षण पाऊँगा!'

कमर कस कर जिद कर लो कि मुझे अपने प्राणवल्लभ श्रीकृष्ण से मिलना ही है। इसी जन्म में ही, नहीं-नहीं इसी वर्ष, नहीं-नहीं आज ही मिलना है। यह व्याकुलता बढ़ाना ही वास्तविक साधना है। इस प्रकार यह व्याकुलता इतनी बढ़ जाय कि अपने प्रियतम से मिले बिना एक क्षण भी युग के सामान बीतने लगे, बस यही साधना की चरम सीमा है। इसी सीमा पर भगवत्कृपा, गुरु कृपा द्वारा दिव्य प्रेम मिलेगा।


सुनहु मन ! यह ऐसो संसार |
बांधि अधर्मिन और विकर्मिन, पठवत नरक मझार |
धर्मिन कर्मिन स्वर्ग पठावत, सोउ क्षणभंगुर यार |
योगिन कहँ अणिमादि सिद्धि दै, देत छाँड़ि मझधार |
ज्ञानिन कहँ तजि देत सदा को, दै तिन मुक्ति असार |
... प्रेम ‘कृपालु’ पाव सोइ जोइ भज, नागर नंदकुमार ||

भावार्थ- अरे मन ! यह मायात्मक संसार का स्वरूप सुन | यह संसार अधर्मियों एवं विकर्मियों को बाँधकर नरक भेज देता है | धर्मात्माओं एवं कर्मकाण्डियों को स्वर्ग भेज देता है किन्तु वह भी क्षणभंगुर ही है | योगियों को अणिमा, लघिमा आदि सिद्धियाँ देकर बीच में ही छोड़ देता है | ज्ञानियों को चार प्रकार की मुक्ति देकर सदा के लिए सुख एवं दुख दोनों से वंचित कर देता है | ‘श्री कृपालु जी’ कहते हैं कि प्रेम तो एकमात्र उसी को प्राप्त होता है जो श्यामसुन्दर का निरन्तर भजन करता है |


Govind Radhey....



 

Sab ke hi ura raha Govind Radhey,
yaha vishwash mere ura mein bitha de.
O Govind Radhey! You reside in everyone's heart. Make this faith deep seated in my heart.

Sab ura bhi hai vyapak bhi hai Radhey,
Golok bhi hai sach kya hai bata de.
You are in everyone's heart, You pervade everything and everywhere, and yet You are also in Golok. Tell me what's the fact! Tell me the truth!

Mere ura ghar raha Govind Radhe,
ghar ka kiraya na de darasa dikha de.
O Govind-Radhe, You live in my heart and yet You don't pay me any rent. That's fine, just grant me Your vision in lieu of the rent!

Main toh tera nitya das Govind Radhe,
das yadi mange vyapari bata de.
I am Your eternal servant (slave) and a true servant must not ask for anything from his master. If he does, he is a businessman, not a true servant anymore!

Mana dhyana mayik Govind Radhey,
kintu hari waako phal divya dila de.
Meditation done by our material mind is material. However, God bestows us Divine result out of it.

Mann manmani kare Govind Radhey,
Yaya barbas Hari Guru mein laga de.
My mind is out of control. O Govind Radhey! Please turn it towards God & Guru forcefully.

Man ka swabhav chal Govind Radhey,
Bal Krishna wate chal jori bana de.
The mind is very playful. However, Shri Krishna is more playful than the mind. So, they make an excellent combination! (The mind would thus be pacified).
(Shri Maharaj Ji says that the mind would get attracted by something more active than it. An analogy would be a mother giving her nettlesome child some active toys which keep him engaged and quiet.)

Mann ki na mano koi Govind Radhey,
bade bade gyani yogi ko bhi girade.
No one should ever listen to their mind. It's the mind which has been responsible for the downfall of even greatest of the gyanis and yogis!

Tere darshan bin Govind Radhey,
mera ek ek pal kalap bana de.
O Govind Radhe! Make every moment of my life without Your darshan feel like an aeon.

Hari guru bhakti dwara Govind Radhey,
mann sudh karu Guru divya bana de.
One has to purify their mind through their devotion to God and Guru. Guru will then make it (mind) divine!

Hari bimukhna sang baikunth na de,
braj Rasikana sang narak patha de.
O Govind Radhe! Don't give me Baikunth abode, if it means associating with those who are not true devotees. I would be rather happy to be sent to hell with the Rasik Saints.

Bhukti na de mukti na de baikunth na de,
braj ke chakor mor pakshi bana de.
Don't give me the material world, don't give me liberation and don't give me Baikunth abode either. Just make me chakor (a partridge), a peacock or any other bird in (Divine) Vrindavan.

Bhukti na de mukti na de baikunth na de,
lena lena, lena dena Govind Radhe, dono bhula de, dena dena sikha de.
Don't give me the material world, don't give me liberation and don't give me Baikunth abode either. Make me forget both taking, and taking and giving (business) from You. Teach me how to give and only give (true love).

Divine Grace...



“God’s grace is of many kinds; out of these which is the greatest?”
There are three kinds of divine grace: (1) samanya or general, (2) vishesh or special, and (3) adbhut or extraordinary. General grace is bestowed equally on all the souls by God. It includes such gracious acts as creating the universe, taking the souls out of their state of pending after the dissolution period (mahapralaya), granting a particular form to a soul based on the calculation of his good and bad actions, and eternally remaining seated in the heart of every living being. God omnipresent resides in this material creation and also seats Himself in the heart of all the souls noting and evaluating their actions and then giving the consequences of their previous lives’ actions. We don’t have to exert any effort for God to do this for us.

For those of you who resides here at the ashram in Mangarh, this is not an accident or coincidence. This is vishesh kripa, special grace. If you had not received this grace of God, you would have gone to an ordinary guru who would have prescribed all the common devotional practices given to the public, “Repeat this mantra,” “Renounce this or that,” “Go to this pilgrimage place,” and you would have wasted time and failed to practice true devotion.

The devotional feelings that you attained up to this point you haven’t acquired on your own. For example, if you are traveling on the train and you hear somebody nearby say, “Radhey!” You will immediately look around to see who it was because you have started to feel so much love for Radhey name. You immediately assume this person is good, even though in reality he may be a seasoned criminal. This feeling of affinity is also a great grace of God, which you received after so many births of practicing devotion. You don’t realize how great this is. God internally keeps an accounting of the consequences of your devotional actions and in due course causes you to meet a true Saint. We can’t use our own logic or intellect to search for the Saint because we will only evaluate someone on the basis of their external behavior.

We evaluate who is a true Saint and think someone to be holy because he sits under a tree, lives with nothing, and externally gives the impression of complete renunciation. If these were the determining factors for saintliness then all the animals in the jungle would be great renunciates and we should go there and start worshiping them. We can see they have little or no shelter, sleep on the ground, eat whatever presents itself to them, have no conveniences, have to endure the elements, own no possessions, have no clothing and so on. But just as the external reality of a jungle animal doesn’t relate to an inner devotional state, so we should not judge who is a true Saint by his external behavior or appearances. To meet a true Saint is thus only God’s grace.

To have received a human birth out of the 8.4 million species of life is also God’s special grace. We didn’t receive this through our actions, because both good and bad actions are lifeless. It is only when God gives the result of these actions that we undergo them. To take a human birth in India is also God’s special grace. It is only in India where even at the time of death you hear uttered, “Ram nam satya hai,” only God’s name is the ultimate truth.
 
What is the most special or extraordinary grace? Shri Krishna said to Arjuna, “I am completely unbiased towards all. I impartially calculate the good and bad consequences a soul must undergo based on his past actions. However, if instead of performing good and bad actions a soul turns to Me and completely surrenders to Me, then I bestow upon him my adbhut kripa, extraordinary grace, and he will come to Me.”

What is extraordinary grace? We practice devotion, but what can we actually do? How will we meditate on God with a material mind? We haven’t seen God. If we were to see God with our material eyes, and even if a true Saint were to confirm it was God, we would criticize Him. The state and quality of our mind determines how we would perceive God. A material mind can only conceive and perceive the material. But through grace, our mayic devotion is accepted as if it were a true meditation on the divine. Through God’s swaroop shakti that devotional remembrance is made divine, and then through this devotion, our mind becomes purified.

This extraordinary grace forces two other forms of extraordinary grace to occur. The moment our mind becomes completely purified through our devotion, then as Shri Krishna describes in the Gita (18/66) all the uncountable consequences of our actions from uncountable births are completely absolved. The karmic file recording all our past actions is burned totally. It is all forgiven. After this we are forever freed from Maya and remain with God and experience His supreme divine bliss forever.


Remember, that whenever any finally believes that Radha Krishn and Their name are one and the same and both have exactly the same Divine virtues and powers, at the very moment the soul becomes God realized; write it down in golden words.

God is so Gracious, He says, “I am omnipresent everywhere, but (O souls) you don’t recognize Me; I am in Golok, but there you cannot come; I am in your heart, but you don’t realize it; for your convenience I have thus kept ‘Myself’ in My ‘name’ and have revealed it in the world.”

Whenever your mind will fully conceive this Divine reality that I am truly and totally in My name, your voice will be choked while taking My name and even once when you will say “Radhey” your whole being will be thrilled with the excessive love; your mind will be drowned and your heart will be unceasingly overwhelmed with the felicity of the exhilarating Bliss of the name. Thus there is no delay in God realization and receiving the Divine Grace of your Master (Guru). Trust in these words,and see what your Master and krishn do for you...