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EARLY MORNING TALK
By H.H. Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj
Given at The Sacred Samadhi Shrine, on October 8, 2003
Worshipful homage unto Thee, Thou all-transcending, cosmic Reality, Thou
who art the great, eternal and all-pervading Supreme Spirit, the Supreme
Being, the Supreme non-dual, supra-cosmic Reality, the Brahman of the
Upanishads, the Supreme Tao, Thou who hast created not only the human
world and human beings, but Thou who has created even the celestials in
heaven. For all the three worlds – the nether regions below, this
human world, and the heavenly world – they dissolve and disappear
in your imponderable infinity, when the cycle of four yugas is completed,
and the great Pralaya occurs; then all the three worlds are absorbed back
into the Pralaya-Jal, the great Cosmic Waters.
To which reference is made in the beginning of the Durga Saptasiti scripture,
which was being read every night during the nine nights’ special
worship of the Divine Mother – Devi: manifest as Durga, manifest
as Lakshmi, manifest as Saraswati. So, out of the nine nights, seven nights
this scripture was read in a certain systematic pattern. Certain chapters
for the first day, certain number of chapters for the second day, certain
number of chapters third day. It refers to Lord Vishnu, Narayana, reclining
upon His maha-shesha, alone, non-dual, nothing existed at that time, creation
had not yet commenced; and in all directions of the compass, nothing was
seen except the Cosmic Waters. It is to that Supreme Being, in Whom everything
becomes dissolved at the end of the cycle of four yugas – Krita
Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga, this present Iron Age in
which we are now living. You are that stupendous Being who makes forth
many universes to issue forth from you, who makes many universes to issue
forth from you; He makes these universes to function in your infinity.
And when you will, in your divine will, “Enough! Let me now wind
up this process, this play” – when the Divine Will wills thus,
then the whole cosmic drama of creation and preservation ends with dissolution.
And, it is the Adi-Narayana who prevails. Not Vishnu, one of the Trinity,
but the Adi-Narayana. To that Adi-Narayana, we bow down in reverence.
In reverence. Reverential salutations and loving adorations to revered
and beloved Holy Master Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. He has
taught us all these things through His wisdom teachings, and even more.
Even more. Teachings even beyond this. To Him, our salutations and prostrations.
May the Divine Grace of the Supreme Parat Para Para-Brahma, the supreme,
non-dual, infinite, timeless, faceless, eternal Being – let the
Divine Grace of that Eternal Being, and let the choicest benedictions
and blessings of Holy Master Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj be upon
you all.
And may God and Gurudev grant you discrimination, the power of spiritual
enquiry; dispassion – vairagya – viveka, vichara, vairagya;
the spirit of renunciation, tyaga-bhav; and intense devotion to the ideal
of God-realization, intense devotion to that great ideal; and a keen aspiration
to attain that by leading a spiritual, divine life. A divine life of truthfulness,
divine life of compassion and kindness towards all God’s creation,
and a divine life of chastity, purity. Purity from the top of your head
to the tip of your toenails, in thought, word and deed, in everything
that you do. May your entire life be a hundred percent complete manifestation
of purity, and purity alone! May you become an embodiment of purity, a
very personification of purity. May such a blessing be bestowed upon you.
May you all be given the gift of a divine life.
It has been given! Therefore it is that you are in this place. This is
the source of the divine life. Like Gangotri is the source of the river,
Ganga, this is the very udpatisthana, udbhavasthala, see, the very source
of a divine life. So, we are all indeed fortunate that so much of grace
has been poured upon us by God; so much of blessings has been bestowed
upon us by Holy Master, Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. May we contemplate
them, and may we always be thinking, “How can I make myself worthy
of this divine endowment? How can I make myself worthy of such Guru-Kripa,
such blessings poured upon us by the Holy Master?” With this intention
may we live an ideal life, and attain the goal, great goal, in this very
life.
Shantakalam bhugashayanam padmanabham suresham
Vishwaadharam gaganasadrisham medhavarnam shubhangam
Lakshmikantham kamal kamalanayanam yogibhidranagamyam
Vande vishnum bhavabhayaharam sarvalokai kanatham
Yam brahmaa varunendrarudramarutah stunwanti divyaihstaviah
Vedaih sangapadakramopanishadair gaayanti yam saamagaah
Dhyaanaavasthitatadgatena manasaa pasyanti yam yogino
Yasyaantam na viduh suraasuraganaa devaaya tasmai namah
Om Namo Narayanaya Om Namo Narayanaya
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