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Only those places where mahät- is right. The great scholar
mäs lived and set up äçrams are Ananda Giri has written in his
important tértha kñetras. Thus öékä (notes) that the brahma jïäné
great bhaktas lend sanctity to is not a slave of the Vedas, but
places of pilgrimage and it is what he says becomes the Veda.
only with their help that we can What the mahätmäs say becomes
cross over saàsära. Therefore a scripture.
they are called térthas.
How do these mahätmäs get
Bhaktas add glory and divine
such power? The answer is
beauty to the karmas they do. given in one word in the next
Kabirdas added beauty to the sütra, which is the shortest.
act of weaving, which was his
profession. No karma by itself is tNmya>. 70.
small or low. It depends on who tanmayäù. (70)
is doing it and the attitude with tanmayäù – absorbed in Him.
which it is done. Sri Krishna
drove a chariot, but nobody The bhaktas are completely
thinks of him as a mere driver. absorbed in Him.
In fact, the word ‘charioteer’ The word ‘maya’ implies
gains glory because of its modification and saturation.
association with Sri Krishna. When we say måëmayo ghaöaù,
When bhaktas do some karma, it it means the pot is a modifica-
becomes auspicious, a sukarma. tion of mud and it is nothing
Bhaktas give authenticity to but mud. Our body is annmayaù
the çästras, proving them to be – a modification of food. In this
true. When we observe or read sütra, maya is used to indicate
about great devotees and men saturation. The bhaktas are satu-
of realization, we can under- rated with the love of God. In
stand that what the çästras say Maharashtra, there was a young

When we live in self-control, we
In memory of discover in ourselves a renewed
ARVIND MAZUMDAR dynamism and become pillars of
strength in society.
Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 30 November 2017