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Chapter 9
satatam kirtayanto mam yatantasca drdhavratah
namasyantasca mam bhaktya nityayukta upasate
Constantly chanting My names and glories, striving firm in vow, prostrating before Me, they worship Me with devotion, ever steadfast. 14
Comment:-
Nityayuktah:—A man, can remain always steadfast, only in worshipping God, not in mundane pleasures and accumulation of prosperity, because he gets disgusted with pleasures and loses taste for accumulation sometimes. But his determination and aim, of God-realization, ever remain the same.
Man (soul) being a portion of God, has real affinity for Him. So long as, a man does not recognize that affinity, he has a disinclination for the Lord, and assumes that he is separate from Him. But, when he recognizes his eternal affinity for Him, he is inclined towards Him, and cannot remain separate from Him.
The natural affinity of a man with God, 'I am God's and God is mine', ever remains steadfast, in wakefulness, sleep, sound sleep; in loneliness, during worship and in company, while performing different actions. As a man always remembers that he is the son of Mr. X, so a striver accepts his affinity, with the Lord that He, Who is the prime cause of creation, the Imperishable, the Supreme Lord is his and he is His, and thus he, ever remains steadfast.
Drdhavratah:—The worldly people, who are engaged in pleasure and prosperity, cannot be firm in spiritual vows (Gita 2/44). But those, who have removed a sense of 'Press from their hearts, by accepting the fact 'We are God's and God is ours', they resolve "We are not of the world, and the world is not ours." So, we have not to hanker after, worldly pleasures and prosperity, but we have to serve others, by regarding them as God's.
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