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Chapter 12
Sarvarambhaparityagi:- Performance of new actions for pleasure and prosperity, is known as 'Arambha', such as accumulation of new articles and starting new business etc., to hoard money. A devotee, renounces all initiative in action, for pleasure and prosperity etc.
A person, who hankers after worldly pleasure and prosperity, and who is proud of himself because of his caste, creed, order of life, learning, intellect, ability, position and authority etc., is not a devotee. A devotee, is he who is devoted to God. He surrenders his body, senses, mind, intellect, actions and their rewards etc., to God, because He is their real owner. He regards prakrti (Nature) and its evolute, as God's. Therefore, a devotee regards no one else, except God, as his. He, instead of performing actions for himself, performs these to please, God. He never performs action to gain wealth or property, comfort or luxury, honour or praise etc. He does not perform any action, for pleasure or prosperity, because he has a true desire for God-realization.
Yo madbhaktah sa me priyah:- The Lord, has so much of attraction, that a devotee is automatically attracted towards Him, and he becomes devoted to Hirn.
"The sages, who are satisfied in the self, and who out of wisdom, have renounced their affinity for matter (insentient), adore God, without expecting any reward, because He possesses such virtues which attract people, towards Him" (Srimadbha. 1/7/10).
Now a question can arise, as to why all persons are not attracted towards God and become devoted to Him, if He has so much of attraction. In fact, a person (the self) is naturally attracted, towards Him, because he is His fragment. But, it is because of his attachment to the body, senses, mind, intellect, family and worldly objects etc., that he has a disinclination for God, Whose fragment he is. God pervades everywhere, but He is not revealed to man, because of his attachment to sense-objects i.e., mundane pleasures. When a man, renounces his attachment to perishable pleasures, he is naturally attracted towards God, and becomes devoted to Him. The Lord, calls such a devotee who has an exclusive devotion to Him 'Madbhaktah', and he is loving to Him.
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