| Bhaja Govindam |
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| Books By Rajaji |
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VERSE 25 |
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| One may ask: Is
this possible? Can one become free from love and hatred alike? Even were it possible for
the sanyaasins, can it be achieved in worldly life? Oh, how many occasions come about for
anger! Can one forget or ignore them? True, it is difficult to forget causes of anger. It
is no use to pretend to be calm externally when angers bum inside in the heart. It is
difficult to forget; yet, Sri Sankara provides a remedy for it one should constantly
remind oneself that Govinda resides in every life. The
way to control and -overcome anger and aversion is to keep telling ourselves: How numerous
are the lapses I have been guilty of! How many are the evils that lodge in my heart
concealed from the gaze of others! Others too are like me, aren't they? Their lapses too
like mine are the sport of God. Govinda sports in various ways. What avails my anger or my
grief? To weed one thing out from the mind it must be filled with something else. It is
for this that one is told to lift one's heart up to Govinda. |
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