THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 09
RAJAVIDYA RAJAGUHYA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE SOVEREIGN SCIENCE AND SOVEREIGN SECRET:
VERSE NUMBER 29
Text in Transliteration:
samo ‘ham sarvabhooteshu na me dveshyo ‘sti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu maam bhaktyaa mayi te tesu chaa ‘py aham
Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:
samah= the same; aham= I; sarva bhooteshu= in all beings; na= not; me= to me; dveshyah= hateful; asti= is; na= not; priyah= dear; ye= who; bhajanti= worship; tu=but; maam= me; bhaktyaa= with devotion; mayi= in me; te= they; teshu = in them; cha= and; api= also; aham= I
Text in English:
I am the same to all beings; to Me there is none hateful, none dear. But those who worship Me with devotion, they are in Me and I also am in them.
COMMENTARY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
The sunlight falls equally on all things, good and bad; but its effect and utilization vary according to the nature of those things. The very presence of the sun is seen in a mirror because of its fitness. Though the all-pervading Lord is in the hearts of all, His presence is patent only in the pure heart of the devotee. As one gives oneself to God, one gets purified and God’s presence in that one becomes evident.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
God is in all beings; but all beings are not in God. And that is the cause of their suffering.
COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
God has no friends nor foes. He is impartial. He does not damn any nor elect any by His capricious will. The only way to win His love is by faith and devotion and each must tread the path by himself.
COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:
The Lord has an even outlook towards all. He regards all living beings alike. None He has condemned, non has He favoured. He is the enemy of none. He is the partial love of none. He does not favour some and frown on others. The egoistic man only has created a wide gulf between himself and the Supreme Being by his wrong attitude. The Lord is closer to him than his own breath, nearer than his hands and feet.
I am like fire. Just as fire removes cold from those who draw near it but does not remove the cold from those who keep away from it, even so I bestow My grace on My devotees, but not owing to any sort of attachment on My part. Just as the light of the sun, though pervading everywhere, is reflected only in a clean mirror but not in a pot, so also, the Supreme Lord, present everywhere, manifest Myself only in those persons from whose minds all kinds of impurities (which have accumulated there on account of ignorance) have been removed by their devotion.
The sun has neither attachment for the mirror nor hatred for the pot. The Kalpavriksha has neither hatred nor love for people. It bestows the desired objects only on those who go near it. (Cf. VII.17; XII.14 and 20)
Now hear the glory of devotion to Me.
Comments by the blogger:
The State of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian Political Parties from the time the Congress Party lost in the election some forty years ago. During the early rule of the Dravidian Political Party, namely, the Dravidar Munnetra Kazhagam (the DMK) the colourful picture of Lord Rama garlanded by a string of old chapels and shoes was mounted on a van and taken out on a public procession on the Anna Salai Road, with two persons on either side of the picture giving shoe beatings to the Lord Rama in the Picture. This happened in the erstwhile Madras (now Chennai )! So Lord Rama was given a thorough shoe beating and taken out in a procession in the very capital of the State!
The persons involved in the procession and the organizer of the procession and the people running the then State Government were not punished by the Lord. That procession hurt the sentiments of millions of people in Tamil Nadu. They were not specially favoured by the Lord. As Srimat Swami Sivananda points out, “The Lord has an even outlook towards all. He regards all living beings alike. None He has condemned, none has He favoured.”
According to Srimat Swami Chidbhavananda, the sunlight falls equally on all beings, good and bad; but its effect and utilization vary according to the nature of those things.
According to Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, He does not damn any nor elect any by His capricious will.
The Lord’s graces are available to all and refused to none. But it is the devotees who harvest the blessings. His graces are available just for the asking. But we ask with deep faith and unflinching conviction in His Power of giving greater is the harvest. Then we can scale the spiritual ladder with His Guidance. And ultimately we can shed the body for good and need not come back here to the earthly plane.
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