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one alone, is hidden in every ways, always. Naradaji says
being; eka eva bhütätmä bhüte such bhaktas are mukhya – the
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bhüte vyavasthitaù – the Self is best.
one alone, residing in each When such ekänté bhaktas
being. Only that ätma tattva or meet each other, what happens?
éçvara tattva can be one. So, This is indicated in the next
Narada Muni is talking of such sütra.
devotees, for whom paramätmä k{QavraexraemaÂïuiÉ> prSpr< lpmana>
alone is the goal. The Bhagavad pavyiNt k…lain p&iwvI— c.68.
Gita says about the jïäné bhaktas
kaëöhävarodha-romäïcaçrubhiù
– eka bhaktir-viçiñyate, meaning
ekasmin paramätmani bhaktiù parasparaà lapamänäù pävayanti
kuläni påthivéà ca. (68)
yasya – one who has devotion
to the one Lord. kaëöhävarodha-romäïcaçrubhiù
Thus, devotees, whose goal – with a choked throat, horripi-
is paramätmä alone, and not lation and tears; parasparam –
wealth etc. and who have total with each other; lapamänäù –
identification with that paramät- conversing (in broken words);
mä are referred to as ekäntino pävayanti – sanctify; kuläni –
bhaktäù. They are the jïäné (their) families; påthivéà ca – and
bhaktas, whose knowledge is also the earth.
soaked in love for the Lord. In Throats choked with
the Gita, Bhagavan says about emotion, body covered with
them: sa sarvavid bhajati mäà horripilation, tears flowing
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sarvabhävena – the bhakta is all- down, they converse with
knowing and worships Me, each other in broken words,
loves Me, serves Me, in all sanctifying their family and
lineage, nay, the very Earth
2 Amritabindu Upanishad, 12
3 Gita 15, 19 itself.

Desire deludes the sense organs,
SRI ATUL KARANJKAR the mind and the intellect and
orders them to do the mischief
Mumbai in our lives.
Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 27 November 2017