Its should be either left, right or Center

Election 2009 has been a major learning experience for all, the election commission, the candidates, the supporters and the lay man of India. Every body learned a lot about the practical story of democracy.

The final result looks like this

UPA 262(+82) NDA 160(-17) 3rd 79(-29) 4th 28(-36) Others 14(0)

So its time for congress party and they seem to really enjoy the verdict to power. It was a clear mandate towards UPA no doubts even if it’s not a sweep. But putting reasons behind this is no child’s play. There is no single good or bad reason to explain this. There is no single deed of a party lead to success or failure, it’s a real democratic outcome. I enjoyed the process and outcome despite the fact that I never wanted come back of UPA, no I am not a BJP or 3rd or 4th sympathizer.

My view

I hate congress for may be odd reasons, I love BJP and left (a strange combination) for again odd reasons. But don’t think my like and dislike for parties has anything to do with the way I vote.

There is no place for any other party in my thinking spectrum as I solidly feel a party is nothing but its ideology. I cannot see any ideology in any other political party other than Congress, BJP and the Left.

It quite tough to define where does these 3 parties political view lie in respect to our political matrix. The fact is that none of the Indian parties even Left have a solid ideology, they are flexible. They have a varying philosophy or ideology in various parts of India (typically based on local compulsions) and minds of leaders. But the good thing is that they have broad and wider accepted ideology at national level even if it is not well accepted or understood by the grass root.

So I feel the choice of people should be always either left (communist), right (congress) or center (BJP).

Many of you who end up reading this post might not like me putting BJP in center. It’s because as far as I understand left is purely socialist where as congress and BJP are trying to do a balancing acts to earn the maximum result (in terms of vote). But if you see closely congress tries to showcase itself as savior of aam admi (the mango man) so it looks to me like an Indian /Nehruian version of essentially communism. It tends me to push them to a side but as we cannot have two lion in a same den I have put them into the right rather than the left. Truly speaking BJP is in center because there ideaology is not based on money its more to do with culture and son of soil philosophy which tends to bring all classes and creeds of people on same bench.

To be continued …………………

Bhaja Govindam - Stanza 2

मूढ जहीहि धनागमतृष्णां
कुरु सद्बुद्धिं मनसि वितृष्णाम् .
यल्लभसे निजकर्मोपात्तं
वित्तं तेन विनोदय चित्तम् .. २..

Oh fool ! Give up your thrist to amass wealth, devote your mind to thoughts to the Real . Be content with what comes
through actions already performed in the past.

 

I understand........

 

Acharya says don't strive for things you don't need and deserve. He also points that what you strive for is not real. So I feel he is not trying to say don't have thirst but he wants us to have thirst for truth and not worldly perishable things. 

 

Acharya is talking about karma siddantha, One will get what he should get based on your current and past actions.

 

Fruits of action has been the most important aspect of advaita that jagadhguru has bought to picture in this small verse.

Bhaja Govindam - Stanza 1

भज गोविन्दं

भजगोविन्दं भजगोविन्दं
गोविन्दं भजमूढमते .
संप्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले
नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे .. १..

Worship Govinda, worship Govinda, worship Govinda, Oh fool !
Rules of grammar will not save you at the time of your death.

bhaja govindam, workship govinda

Shankara getting tired of seeing people who fell pray of maya turns angry and as a last resort tell the old man oh fool, rules of grammar will not save you at the time of your death. Death is the most proximate truth for any old man and using this word shankara is trying to awake the man from maya.

 

 

 

Bhaja Govindam - Introduction

भज गोविन्दं
Introduction

Bhaja govindaM is one of the minor (in size) compositions of the spiritual giant, Adi Shankaracharya .

It is classified as a prakaraNa grantha, a primer to the major works .

It is usually sung as a bhajan, but it contains the essence of vedanta. I feel its one of the simplest composition of adi shankara which was targeted at common man.

During his stay in Kashi one day adi shakara noticed a very old man
studying the rules of sanskrit by Panini . Shankara was touched with pity
at seeing the plight of the old man spending his years at a mere intellectual accomplishment while he would be better off praying and
spending time to control his mind . Shankara understood that the majority
of the world was also engaged in mere intellectual, sense pleasures and
not in the divine contemplation . Seeing this, he burst forth with the
verses of Bhaja govindaM.

In 31 verses, he, like no other, explains our fallacies, our
wrong outlook for life, and dispells our ignorance and delusions.
Thus bhaja govindaM was originally known as moha mudgaara, the remover of delusions.

Essence

All knowledge other than the Self-Knowledge is useless.

Structure

Bhaja govindaM is divided into dvaadasha manjarikaa stotram
and chaturdasha manjarika stotram . At the end of composing the
first stanza, it is said that Shankara burst forth with the next 11 stanzas of bhaja govindam.
Thus stanzas 1-12 are called dvaadash manjarika stotram . Inspired by the extempore recital by Shankara, each of his 14 disciples composed a verse and the 14 verse compendium is called chaturdasha manjarika
stotram . Shankara added the finishing touches by adding five of his own stanzas at the last bringing the total to 31. The last two verses in this version is not found in all editions.

Bhaja govindaM has been set to musical tones and sung as prayer songs by children . It is divided into dvaadashapaJNjarikaa and charpaTapaJNjarikaa for this purpose. The former is a set of verses (verses 1-12a) while the rest of the verses form charpaTapaJNjarikaa.

Conclusion

Anyone who listens to the music of Bhaja govindaM is attracted to
it . However, the significance of the text goes much deeper and
contains a well defined philosophy of attaining salvation . So please dont get lost in the music please dwell deep if you want to get what shankara intended for you.

Shankara's words seem to be quite piercing and seem to lack the softness and tenderness often found in his other texts, thus addressing directly. The reason is that this was an extempore recital to an old man . His words can be compared to a knife of a doctor . The doctor's knife cruely removes the tumor with much pain, but removing the tumor ultimately restores good health in the patient. So is Shankara's words, which pierce and point out our ignorance. It is a knife into the heart of worldiness, and by removing this tumor of ignorance, we can attain everlasting bliss with the grace of Govinda.

May the achaarayaa guide us away from ignorance to truth .

OM tat sat.



Note - I have copied the sanskrit text and have information provided in introduction part of the article by giridhar on Bhaja govindam found @ http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_sa/bhajagovindam_sa.html

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How much I love you I dont know
but I cant live without you

I have heard suffering of seperation, from many people
But i dont know how they spend their lives
Even a day looks like a year here
How much eagerly I am waiting I dont konw
But I cant live without you

When somebody sees you My hearts gets burnt
With lot of trouble my heart gets cool
what all we do do barely know
how despearte is this hear I dont know
But I cant live without you

Chithariyavar - CJ Kuttpan

Kutti karichu kilachu marichathum

Vithu vithachathum vela parichathum

Nyanee keezhalan, Kanni manithe ചെലലന്‍

Thevi nanachathum koithu methichathum

Mothira katta muka puram vachitu

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adithya rashmipol ambara noolitu

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chandanam kandathum kothi manathathum

veti marichu purantho chethitu

anayum yaliyum sarpavum simhavum

pathavatharavum kothi polipichu

katilu kadanzhathum thongalu vechathum

kalyana thambranu thambrati kunjinum

kaniravathu chirichu kalikuvan kanika vechitu

madathin mutathu poozhi kidakayil ……………………..

nyan nee keezhalan ----------

A verse from shivananda lahari

Ghato vaa mrithir pando apyaraunubhi cha dhoomogni
rachalaPato vaa thanthurva pariharathi kim ghorasamanam
Vridha kantakshebham vahasi tharasa tharka vachasa
Padhambhojam shmbhor bhaja parama soukhyam vrijasudhi.

This is the pot, no, this is only mud,
This is the earth, no , it is only atom,
This is the smoke, no, it is only fire,
This is the cloth, no , it is only the thread,
Can all this debate ever cure the cruel God of death?
Vainly you give pain to your throat,By these torrent of words,
Instead worship the lotus like feet of Shambu,
Oh , intelligent one, and attain supreme happiness.

By His Highness Adi Shankaracharya