Our Heroine part 4
They say we should love God not as a friend or even worship Him/Her as a divine being. Both encourage an ‘otherness’ that just is not true. The love between an individual atma and the paramatma, instead, should be that of a mother and child. It does not matter which is which, just that they are of the same substance. There is a unity that isn’t present in the relationship between friends or master-servants. A mother loves her child not because of duty, dharma or because the shastras exhort her to do so. She does so from the deepest part of her. The navavidha bhakthi are mentioned in the Bhagavata, 7:5:23,
Shravanam Kirtanam Vishnu: smaranam Pada-sevanam
Archanam Vandanam, Dasyam, Sakyam and Atma-nivedanam
(listening, singing, contemplation, service, oblation, reverence, obedience, friendship and surrender)
It could be said that all of these are possible in the relationship between a mother and child. This is because the relationship between a mother and child is not merely physical, and occurs even before they are face to face, looking upon one another. The tie is not just umbilical, for a time their thoughts and needs are one.
This all begs the question – the relationship between a mother and child is so because they are mother and child. How can you love God, who is a concept more than he is a person we encounter day-in and day-out – how can you love God the way you love your mother, who is or was physically present?
One day in the future, our heroine will compose a song, ‘Pancharang chola pehni rahi hai.’ In this song, she says that all of us have 5 guises, 5 clothes, 5 masks – composed of the 5 elements. The significance of the song – the punch line, if you will – is that no matter how we safeguard this ‘shirt’ it will one day perish. Every incarnation will inevitably give way to another based on our karma. Every incarnation is a shirt to be thrown away.
To tie the song in with the question of how to love God – the capacity we have to love the mother of our physical presence, even knowing that one day this will end – that capacity is indicative of our ability to love God. They are commensurate.
Disclaimer:
I’d like to pause a moment and ask that you do not assume I am saying that there is no love in the world outside of the love between a mother and child. Nor am I belittling any other form of love. I am pointing out the one aspect of love that is beyond anything else – the one where there is no question, no doubt that the lover and the loved are one. This is not unpresent in any other relationship, it is just very present between a mother and child.
Now. I know I promised the encounter between our heroine and her crush. Be patient, grasshoppers. I will get there.
Stay tuned.
Shravanam Kirtanam Vishnu: smaranam Pada-sevanam
Archanam Vandanam, Dasyam, Sakyam and Atma-nivedanam
(listening, singing, contemplation, service, oblation, reverence, obedience, friendship and surrender)
It could be said that all of these are possible in the relationship between a mother and child. This is because the relationship between a mother and child is not merely physical, and occurs even before they are face to face, looking upon one another. The tie is not just umbilical, for a time their thoughts and needs are one.
This all begs the question – the relationship between a mother and child is so because they are mother and child. How can you love God, who is a concept more than he is a person we encounter day-in and day-out – how can you love God the way you love your mother, who is or was physically present?
One day in the future, our heroine will compose a song, ‘Pancharang chola pehni rahi hai.’ In this song, she says that all of us have 5 guises, 5 clothes, 5 masks – composed of the 5 elements. The significance of the song – the punch line, if you will – is that no matter how we safeguard this ‘shirt’ it will one day perish. Every incarnation will inevitably give way to another based on our karma. Every incarnation is a shirt to be thrown away.
To tie the song in with the question of how to love God – the capacity we have to love the mother of our physical presence, even knowing that one day this will end – that capacity is indicative of our ability to love God. They are commensurate.
Disclaimer:
I’d like to pause a moment and ask that you do not assume I am saying that there is no love in the world outside of the love between a mother and child. Nor am I belittling any other form of love. I am pointing out the one aspect of love that is beyond anything else – the one where there is no question, no doubt that the lover and the loved are one. This is not unpresent in any other relationship, it is just very present between a mother and child.
Now. I know I promised the encounter between our heroine and her crush. Be patient, grasshoppers. I will get there.
Stay tuned.
posted by crazybard at 7:41 AM
4 Comments:
The heroine would have loved this. Enough research to get her interested and enough love to make her rejoice. I am too small to add anything more, except to say it's so beautifully begun. Hope Krishna continues to add a little more melody to your every word, every time.
*hugs*
too small?
anoraneeyan...
i had actually hoped, once upon a time, that you would co-write this with me. i am, after all, going by the notes we took together ;)
if you're interested and have some time, please do let me know; i'm sure you have more access to l337 infosz at this time.
Ah, of course, I'd love to co-write. But i, ahem, have no idea what l337 infosz could possibly be. Info yes, but why the glkasdofies? is it jkehofs and hjewdluf? :) No comprende!
ah.
to that i must respond:
omgroflpstdrvthrukekelaplzthxirllmaoifltmws/bw/bc/bw/oooooohhhkayi should get back to work.
ttyl
kit
remmy
okay now really. back to work.
o&o
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