The Meaning Of Artha Panchakam
I am a spirit soul. I am an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. It took 8,400,000 birth/species of life before I take birth as a human being. It is confirmed by Padma Purana, and the soul evolves through them. This evolutionary process we accept: the soul evolves from aquatics to plants, to insects, to birds, to animals, and then to the human forms. I have took a long journey before getting this body. Please use this birth wisely. Do not waste any second in mundane matters.
2.Who is the Lord? (Para-svarupa)
Arjuna confirmed Krishna as the Supreme Lord. In Bhagavad Gita 10.12 Arjuna said you are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala, and Vyasa proclaim this of You.
The Supreme Lord Krishna is He whom all the Vedic scriptures proclaim as param brahma the Supreme Ultimate Truth, param dhama the Supreme Ultimate Shelter and pavitram paramam the Supreme Purifier. The Taittiriya Upanisad III.I.I beginning yato va imani bhutani jayante states: Search for Him alone from whom all existence arises, upon whom all beings exist and into whom they enter and merge. He the Supreme Lord is param brahma and the Tattiriya Upanisad II.I.I beginning brahma vid apnoti param states: The knower of param brahma attains the Supreme State. The Mundaka Upanisad III.II.IX beginning sa yo ha vai tat param brahma states: Is not one who realises param brahma infused with an awareness of brahman the spiritual substratum pervading all existence.
Bhrigu decided to test the lords' tolerance, for that quality is a sure sign of greatness. First he entered the court of Lord Brahma, his father, without offering him any respect. This enraged Brahma, who suppressed his anger because Bhrigu was his son. Next, Bhrigu went to Lord Siva, his older brother, who rose from his seat to embrace him. But Bhrigu rejected the embrace, calling Siva a deviant heretic. Just as Siva was about to kill Bhrigu with his trident, Goddess Parvati interceded and pacified her husband. Next Bhrigu went to Vaikuntha to test Lord Narayana. Going up to the Lord, who was lying with His head on the lap of the goddess of fortune, Bhrigu kicked His chest. But instead of becoming angry, both the Lord and His consort stood up and offered Bhrigu respects. "Welcome," said the Lord. "Please sit down and rest awhile. Kindly forgive us, dear master, for not noticing your arrival." When Bhrigu went back to the assembly of sages and told them all that had happened, they concluded that Lord Vishnu is certainly supreme.
3. What’s our goal? (Purusaartha-svarupa)
The spirit soul's goal is to attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Our only motive is to attain liberation and serve the Lord eternally. Our dharma's goal is not hell and heaven. Both hell and heaven are temporary. When our good karmas and bad karmas are over we have to take birth again. To attain moksha is the only goal.
4. The ways to attain the goal. (Upaya-svarupa)
harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha (Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 7.76 )
"'To attain the Supreme Lord in this Age of Kali, there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative to the holy name, the holy name, the holy name of the Lord.'
The same method was confirmed by Sripad Sankaracharya in his Bhaja Govindam.
"'To attain the Supreme Lord in this Age of Kali, there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative to the holy name, the holy name, the holy name of the Lord.'
The same method was confirmed by Sripad Sankaracharya in his Bhaja Govindam.
bhajagovindaṁ bhajagovindaṁ
govindaṁ bhajamūḍhamate |
samprāpte sannihite kāle
nahi nahi rakśati ḍukṛñkaraṇe
Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda. Oh, fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.
5. The hindrances in attaining our Goal. (Virodhi-svarupa)
buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto
Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda. Oh, fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.
5. The hindrances in attaining our Goal. (Virodhi-svarupa)
buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto
dhṛtyātmānaḿ niyamya ca
śabdādīn viṣayāḿs tyaktvā
rāga-dveṣau vyudasya ca
vivikta-sevī laghv-āśī
yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ
dhyāna-yoga-paro nityaḿ
vairāgyaḿ samupāśritaḥ
ahańkāraḿ balaḿ darpaḿ
kāmaḿ krodhaḿ parigraham
vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto
brahma-bhūyāya kalpate (Bhagavad-gītā 18.51-53)
Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind, and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from a false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptance of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful — such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.
When one is purified by intelligence, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance. He is not attached to the objects of sense gratification, and he is free from attachment and hatred in his activities. Such a detached person naturally prefers to live in a secluded place, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body and mind. He has no false ego because he does not accept the body as himself. Nor has he a desire to make the body fat and strong by accepting so many material things. Because he has no bodily concept of life, he is not falsely proud. He is satisfied with everything that is offered to him by the grace of the Lord, and he is never angry in the absence of a sense of gratification. Nor does he endeavor to acquire sense objects. Thus when he is completely free from a false ego, he becomes nonattached to all material things, and that is the stage of self-realization of Brahman. That stage is called the Brahma-bhūta stage. When one is free from the material conception of life, he becomes peaceful and cannot be agitated. This is described in Bhagavad-gītā (2.70):
āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaḿ
Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind, and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from a false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptance of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful — such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.
When one is purified by intelligence, he keeps himself in the mode of goodness. Thus one becomes the controller of the mind and is always in trance. He is not attached to the objects of sense gratification, and he is free from attachment and hatred in his activities. Such a detached person naturally prefers to live in a secluded place, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he controls the activities of his body and mind. He has no false ego because he does not accept the body as himself. Nor has he a desire to make the body fat and strong by accepting so many material things. Because he has no bodily concept of life, he is not falsely proud. He is satisfied with everything that is offered to him by the grace of the Lord, and he is never angry in the absence of a sense of gratification. Nor does he endeavor to acquire sense objects. Thus when he is completely free from a false ego, he becomes nonattached to all material things, and that is the stage of self-realization of Brahman. That stage is called the Brahma-bhūta stage. When one is free from the material conception of life, he becomes peaceful and cannot be agitated. This is described in Bhagavad-gītā (2.70):
āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaḿ
samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat
tadvat kāmā yaḿ praviśanti sarve
sa śāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī
"A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires — that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still — can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires."
"A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires — that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still — can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires."
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