Contents
Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter IX
|
|
How is the worship of the universe your own worship, O Lord? I am Vedic ritual, I am sacrifice, I am offering to the departed. I am medicinal herb, I am sacred formula, I am clarified butter, I am fire, I am the act of offering oblations into fire. I am the sustainer and ruler of this universe, its father, mother and of grandfather; I am the knowable, the purifier, the sacred syllable 'Om' and the three Vedas-Rk, Sãma, Yajus. I am the father, sustainer, mother, grandfather, supreme goal, supporter, Lord, witness, abode, refuge, disinteresed friend, origin, end, treasure-house and the imperishable seed of the entire universe. I radiate heat as the sun, I withhold and send forth rain, I am immortality as well as death and also I am being and non-being (sentient and insentient).(16-19) When you are all-in-all in your Universal Form, why do people worship the gods? They' want to enjoy pleasures. So they perform action with some interested motive as laid down in the three Vedas and drink the sap of Soma plant, thus purified from sin, which is in an obstacle to heaven, worshipping Indra, the lord of the gods through sacrifices, seek access to heaven. They attain paradise as a result of their good deeds. Having enjoyed the vast world of heaven, they return to the world of mortals on the exhaustion of their merits. Thus taking recourse to action with interested motive enjoined by the three Vedas they repeatedly come and go (viz., are born and dissolved).(20-21) |
 |
