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We are enjoying the Devi Suktam from the 10th Mandala and 125th Suktam. In our earlier classes, we have discussed the very first mantra that I manifest Myself in the form of all the Adheshtha Truh Devatas, presiding deities as illustrated in the examples given Rudra, Vasu, Mitra, Varuna, Indra, Agni, Ashwini, Kumar, Asat. And the essence of this whole Devi Suktam is I have become the Sakala Adhyatmika, Sakala Adhibhautika and Sakala Adhidaivika. As we mentioned in earlier other classes, especially in the Vedantic Upanishadic classes, Ishwara manifests. He doesn't create like a potter creates a pot. He Himself becomes this entire universe just as we become or we create our dream world. But interesting thing is not only dream world, even this Jagrat Prapancha is also nothing but our own creation. We are the Brahmas because each one of us are living in our own very private world. So that fact is being said here. AHAM SOMAM AHANASAM VIBHARMYAHAM TVASHTARAM UTHAPOSHANAM BHAGAM AHAM DADAMIDRAVINAM HAVISHMATE SUPRAVYE YAJAMANAYA SUNVATE What does it mean? I uphold and cherish the Soma, the exuberant plant whose juice is pressed out and offered for the delight of the Gods, called Somarasa. I am also the supporter of the divine sculptor and craftsman, Tvashta. That is He who shapes, makes this entire universe. How many universes are there? It is said there are 14 Lokas. So Tvashta means creator of the, the sculptor of the entire universe. Just as if a sculptor sculpts the image of Krishna, He is called Tvashta of that particular one. But here He is Vishwakarma, the whole Vishwam. He is doing, shaping it all the time. Very, very marvellous thought here. Supposing somebody, he says, I want to destroy the other person. So this person does that evil act of hurting, harming the other person. You know what happens immediately? Vishwakarma goes to work and he takes the help of certain implements like that evil Samskara, Paapa Samskara of that and starts sculpting this person's future body etc. and circumstances in the form of Jati, Aayu and Bhoga. So it is not that once it is sculpted, forever it remains like that. No creation keeps like that. That is why it is called ever flowing. Samsara means Sarathi. The root Shru means ever to flow out, to move. To move out means to act in time, in space. Of course, there is a motivating force which is called Nimitta. So this is how is called Tvashtaram, Uttapooshanam. The creator is Ishwara and here this great lady who did tremendous Tapasya, who attained to that oneness with Brahman, she has become the Ishwara or she has become the Ishwari. Not that Brahman can become either male or female or neuter. But depending upon, sometimes I feel like calling upon God as father. Sometimes I feel like calling upon as mother. I have seen small babies, the father and mother bring the baby and the baby is sitting quite happily in the lap of the mother. He becomes rest. So he stretches his hands towards the dad and immediately the dad takes him into his hands. Will this fellow remain quiet? No. After some time, he again stretches his hands towards the mother. So he is moving from father to mother, mother to father, etc. Exactly in the same way, our minds sometimes feel like calling upon God. Whether we consciously think of him as male or female is a different issue. But when we say, protect me, we are usually meaning father figure. But when we say, Ma, I am hungry. Give me something quickly. Oh, whatever desires we have, then we call God as mother. We demand when we beg on our knees, Oh Lord, please bestow your grace. I am an inferior being. I am nothing, etc. That is the idea of a father. But if we say, No, you must give it to me. Whether I deserve it is not the point at all. I belong to you. I am your child. You have to give it to me though unconsciously. When we start doing this, that means we are addressing the same being as mother. In fact, mother and father are not two absolutes but depending upon the qualities. So sometimes we cannot describe as father or mother. Then it becomes neuter. TAD TADEVA SHRISHTVA TAD SHRISHTVA TADEVA ANUPRAVISHNU TAD means that Brahman, neuter gender here. SHRISHTVA having created TAD EVA ANUPRAVISHNU So enters into. This is what is being expressed in all these mantras practically. In Devi Suptam, we have only eight mantras are there. But each mantra has profound meaning and some of the words are Vedic words. That is why it takes time for us to understand. For example, TVASHTHA. So BHAGAM. TVASHTARAM. I am the Tvashtara. That means I am the creatrix. SHRISHTI STHITI VINASHANAM SHRIKTI BHUTE SANATANE GUNA SHREYE GUNAMAYI NARAYANI You are the what? That Uta. And not only that. PUSHRANAM So I am the STHITIKARTA. Not only SHRISHTIKARTA but I am the STHITIKARTA also. Though it is not mentioned here. It will come later on. But the idea is we have to also say I am the PRADAYAKARTA also. PUSHRANAM PUSHRANAKARTA How? In the form of the sun. In the form of the sun and the moon. It represents the entire sustaining principle. Because the whole life comes out of it. All the plant kingdom, animal kingdom, any kingdom. It is because of the sunlight. Sunlight also requires the help of the other Bhutas, Pancha Bhutas as we call them. Akasha, then Vayu, Agni, Apaha or Jala and Prithvi. All these are necessary. If one is missing then there would be no Shrishti at all. So even though the scientists are searching nowadays for planets where life can be sustained. The first thing they are searching is for water. But water alone will not do. Because if the climate is too cold or too hot then our present understanding is it is impossible for life to be sustained there. So PUSHRANAM Once something is created it has to be sustained. So who is the sustainer? It is me only. Here instead of saying a devotee saying thou art the sustainer, here the divinity herself is telling that I am PUSHRANAM. I am the sustainer. I am the nourisher. Surya is also another name for nourishing. PUSHRAN called we have seen it earlier in many of the Upanishads and then BHAGAM. BHAGAM means what? So merely nobody wants to be surviving. Every creature has a number of desires and different desires are there. First desire is I want to live. I don't want to die. I don't want to be a corpse. I want it to be a fully conscious living creature. And then various desires will be there. I don't know but I am guessing with my imagination. Supposing only one human being or animal is there and a mosquito is there and it is getting freely the food from that buffalo or cow or human being, my imagination runs right here. So after sometime, every day I have to drink the same tasteless blood. Horrible. Then because it is a living creature, it will pray to its own God. He is called the creator of mosquitoes and then mosquito king. Huge mosquito with a tremendous amount of stinging power which can subdue anybody mosquito or non mosquito. Oh Lord! Grant me a different tasty human being or animal. I am dead bored. I don't want to live with this. So BHAGAM means what? Various desires. Every living creature wants to prosper. So it wants a partner, spouse, male or female. And then it wants safety and it wants to support itself. Joy. So all these desires have to be fulfilled. That is why God has got the name Bhagavan. Van means what? Dhanavan means one who has Dhana. Bhagavan. Bhaga means Jnana, Aishwarya, Vairya, Bala etc. Six qualities are there. Why six qualities? Hundred qualities also can be included. Why hundred qualities? Because it is like a supermarket. Whatever a person wants, prani wants, that has to be fulfilled. Human beings forget that the creator must sustain whatever he creates, she creates. The tantrics call the creator creatrix, matrix. So it is a mosquito. That has, that's desires has to be fulfilled. A dog, its desires have to be fulfilled. That is why mother is called Vishalakshi. She fulfills the desires of every created being. From our eyes, we are superior, everything is in. But from the mother's eyes, all her children have their own respective positions there. So I am the Poshanakarta, I am the Bhaga. All sorts of shops are there, materials are there. I am the fulfiller of every single desire. Why? Because the desire also stems only from her only. In fact, if we go very deep into it, there is no second part. She is only sustaining herself. She is only recreating herself. She is only merging herself into herself. Aham Dadhamidravinam Havishmati Very beautiful expression here, Aham. This Ambruni, her name was Vak. So Ambruni, Vak, she is having identified with Brahman. She is telling Aham Havishmati, those who are praying. So Havihi means some offering. It need not be ghee only. It can be fruit, patram, pushpam, palam, toyam, yome, bhaktya, prayachyate, tadham, bhaktya, apahrutam, ashnami, prayata. So whatever is offered to me with bhakti, etc., I lovingly accept that one. Accepting means I fulfil all that person's desires. Here Havish, Havishmati means, the literal meaning is one who is performing Havish, that is ghee, which is to say yagna yagas, as it is seen. And here also, in our modern pujas also, if it is good temple, people use ghee for lighting up the lamps, etc. They do arathrikam also, only with wicks dipped in ghee. But if it is poor, then they will use some other type of oil. So Havish doesn't mean only ghee. Whatever is worthy of being offered to God, that is called Havish. And those who ever offer to the Divine, whether it is in the male form or female form, it is all accepted. And what do I do? Dravinam Dadham. Dadham means I sustain that person, I fulfil the desires of that person, that means I grant the desires of that person. Whether you call her Kamakshi or Meenakshi or Vishalakshi, I fulfil all the desires of those who are ready. And what is the place of puja, yagna, yaga, etc.? It is the capacity to receive. This is a marvellous principle. It is not simply a prayer. It is the capacity to be able to receive what the mother always wants to give. She wants to give everything. She is more eager than anybody to give. That is why it is written in the Vedas, like a cow which has just given birth to a calf. The mother wants to give as much as the calf can take. It is up to the calf how much it can take. As it grows, its capacity to drink the milk becomes more and more pronounced. So this is the meaning. Dravinam means desire. Here Dravinam means wealth. So I will grant the desires. Whatever be the desire. If you want children, I will give you. If you want a spouse, I will give you. So the example we get, Gopis wanted Krishna as their beloved. So they worshipped the Divine Mother in the form of Katyayani and she granted. And Krishna called. Krishna only in the form of Katyayani granted them. And Krishna only has appeared in front of them as their most desired object in the whole world. When they could not see Krishna, they felt that they have fallen into the direst hell. But when the same Krishna appeared, how did it appear? Sakshat manmatha manmathaha. So manmatha means one who will not allow our minds to be quiet. The most enjoyable object. And there is nothing more enjoyable than God Himself. Because He is Paripoorna Anandaswaroop. So when everybody wants only Anandaswaroop, nobody wants any object. Every object is just an instrument. Just as when our mothers cook nice food for us, we have to use our hands to take that food and carry it to the mouth. It is not the hand that we are desiring. Similarly, every object is only an instrument. So dravinam means desire. And it could be for wealth. Could be for health. It could be for longevity. It could be any power, position, name, fame. I quoted the example of one devotee that was coming to Shri Ram Krishna, Upendra Raj Mukhopadhyay. And Shri Ram Krishna just ate jalebi. What does it mean? He ate up the dharidrata. The what is called poverty which was in his fate. And like Krishna eating the what is called flattened rice of Sudama, Shri Ram Krishna had eaten. And immediately all his what we call alakshmi is completely destroyed. That means he will get what his heart is longing for. And dravinam havishmate. Now in this context, if we interpret that Sudama Sustu, what was his heart really longing for? Even to speak, what was the heart of his wife longing for? Do you think that she was not a devotee of him? It was only she or it was Krishna who inspired the wife of Sudama. You must go and seek. Otherwise nothing is going to happen. By his will, she had the desire. She collected a little bit of this flattened rice and she tied it. He walked all the way only remembering Bhagavan Krishna. He was a great devotee of God and Shri Krishna did everything. And even ate the flattened rice unasked for, but at the same time granted him so much of riches. What riches can Bhagavan Krishna offer to a devotee who said like Ramachandra Datta? Once Ramachandra Datta approached Shri Ram Krishna and then Shri Ram Krishna was in a gracious mood. He was also a moody fellow. So sometimes he was not in a mood to give. So he would just withdraw his lotus feet and never allow anybody to touch. It depends upon the fate of the devotee. So Shri Ram Krishna asked, what do you want? And Ramachandra Datta thought, whatever I ask for, my limited intellect can only ask limited something. So he said, Lord, I leave it. Whatever you want, you think is good for me, you give it. And then immediately Shri Ram Krishna said, give me all the mantras that I have given to you. And then he said, whatever you desire to see me, like Shri Krishna offered to Arjuna, whatever else you want to see within me, you will behold. And Ramachandra Datta had a wonderful vision fulfilling his heart's condition. So it is better to leave it to the Divine Mother what is good because She knows better than any one of us. So this is called Dravidam. Havismate means to those who pray, who surrender and who are in a fit condition to receive that Ananda. Ultimately, Dravidam means Ananda. And that Ananda is given to everybody who surrenders himself to God. And the same idea is being repeated again. Supravye ejamanaya sunvate. So I am the giver of the fruits of the sacrifices and grant the wealth of oblation to the mindful performers and also those who arrange the Soma sacrifice, etc. Supravya, that means one who is endowed with Shraddha and Bhakti and Dhyana and Yoga. Ejamanaya. Ejamanaya is one usually who is a quite wealthy person, who is capable of organising, an organiser with his own money. Of course, he will give to all the performers who are called Ritwiks, Pujaris, Pandas. So sunvate, so the persons who are also performing actually the job, for them approved. So what is the difference? There is no difference. If the Ejamana does everything in the manner prescribed, if the Ritwiks also perform them with Shraddha and Bhakti, then the Divine Mother will give them appropriate, what do we mean by appropriate results? Because human beings are different. One Ejamana may want Dharma, another may want Artha, another may want Kama, another may want Mukti itself. And similarly, the Ritwiks also, even though they are doing, all of them are equally entitled to all this Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. All of them may not desire. They may desire, some people may desire only Artha. One of our seniors told me something very, very interesting. There are idiots who do not have that much of brain. So they are praying to the Divine Mother, performing all sorts of things. Grant me wealth. And even in Lalita Sahasranama, there is a beautiful word, Samrajya Daini. She who is a bestower of Samrajya. Supposing there is an idiot and then she bestows Samrajya to that person. Now do you think that person will enjoy it or this Samrajya falls upon him like a tsunami and he will be drowning, struggling even to breathe properly. So it is not enough. What we need really, if we are intelligent people, Mother, grant me that bliss. Go Anandamayi Hoye Nirananda Amaya Korona. Do not give me Nirananda because you are the very embodiment of Ananda Swaroopini. Sri Ramakrishna always used to do it as Ma Anandamayi. So he was reminding her every time that you are not a Srishti Kartha, you are not a Stithi Kartha, you are not a Laya Kartha, but you are Anandamayi. Whatever else you do, give me Ananda. And whether you keep me poor, whether you keep me in ill health, it doesn't matter. And if you study Sri Ramakrishna's life, especially towards the end, for nearly a little more than one year, he suffered terribly from the gradually increasing throat cancer. But he was himself swimming in the ocean of bliss and he is also keeping everybody else that comes to him in bliss. We should pray, Oh Mother, give me bliss, your bliss. Let me be in you all the time. This is the meaning of Supraabye Yajamanaya Sunvate. He who organizes, He who actually performs, both the inspirer as well as the workers, executive officer as well as the actual workers who perform. So what does the Divine Mother do? Dravidam Dadhami. I fulfil all their desires. The end goal of every fulfilment is nothing but pure Ananda. Wealth means Ananda. That is why I mentioned to you many times in the past, there are many foolish people who want to worship Mother in the form of Lakshmi. So Lakshmi means wealth. Wealth means crores of rupees. That is what they think. But what will you do? If somebody who has got crores of rupees or thousands of crores of rupees, but that fellow is old or he is suffering from cancer or he is suffering from loss of family members or the jealousy of other business people etc. and he has to depend totally upon the servants. Do you think servants really love the employers? It is impossible and yet such is the delusion. When they come and speak to you, you feel as if they were nearer and dearer than your own Self. And yet this delusion doesn't go. So pray, O Mother, whatever be the condition I am in, it doesn't matter. As Sri Ramakrishna used to pray, O Mother, do not deprive thy child of bliss. Anandamayi hoye goma nirananda korona. Do not do it. We move on to the third one. And actually we have introduced in the last class also. Aham rastri sangamani usunam chigitushi prathama igniyanam tamma deva vedaduhu purutra ghori statram ghori aveshayanti Here, the Divine Mother, in this case, this Ambruni, Rishika. What is she telling? This Vagdevata. She identified herself. But she is now identifying herself with the Eswaratva. Eswara means Saguna Brahma. Earlier, some hints were given about the Nirguna Brahma. Now she is giving the hints about the Saguna Brahma. Aham rastri. What does that mean? That I have become Rashtra. Rashtra means we know Manga Rashtra, Andhra Rashtra, etc. Madhya, Madhya Pradesh Rashtra. Rashtra means a state. State means a country, a kingdom. This is called Rashtra. Bharata Rashtra. So Rashtra means one who rules over it. Samrat. That is why the word comes there. Samrat. Rashtri. That means Aham Samrat. I am the ruler. I am the Eswari. If we really... What does this Rashtra or the ruler really mean? It means a being who identifies himself or herself with whatever he is claiming. I am the ruler. That is every small bit. This is me. A person who says I am India and India is me. He is the ruler. He is the real ruler. Because what is the idea? Idea is that anybody who identifies and feels this is me never wishes any ill to anything in that a person may be identified with the family. Usually we are. There are a little more advanced people. They are identified with their village, with their town. There are still more what is called greater people. They are identified with the entire state. Or there are still more people identified with the entire nation. But there are people who are identified with the entire world, international. But there are people who do not stop there. They identify themselves with the living, with the non-living, everything. Now we are understanding slowly with the help of scientists that if a great ice melts somewhere, it has unimaginable consequences, implications over the entire world. How these things influence the weather and the other atmospheric conditions, the rainfall, etc. These are all still puzzles. Even the scientists, this interconnectedness of both the living and non-living can never be explained because the universe is so. And we are not talking. I am not talking only about this earthly atmosphere, what we call our cosmos. There are cosmoses whose very nature we cannot even imagine. What beside the astronomers are saying that there are stars who are dead billions of light years ago, whose light has just started reaching the earth. That means so far as we are concerned, those stars are just born a short, short time means many billions of years. And that light, as if forever ice, as if they are just born and it is the nature of the star to shine and to shed light. And that light has reached us even though it took billions of years. The star is completely dead by now. But so far as we are concerned, it is alive. It is just born. For many billions of years, it is going to give us light, etc. Unbelievable, unimaginable. That is all what is meant by I am the creation. Pastry means I am the creation. That is what it really means. And then I am Ishwara. Just now I mentioned it is the president or a king or the prime minister. Such persons, rarely they identify themselves with what they are supposed to rule, etc. No, Ishwara is the Antaryami. Here the Divine Mother is telling I am the Antarya, I am the Rashtri, I am the Ishwari. This is what is meant by Isavasya Upanshat. I gather everything. That means I keep everything ready. Like a mother who after giving birth to the child, she gathers everything that is needed for the welfare of the child. So, do you require food? Do you require warmth? Do you require medication? Do you require protection? Everything. And this is the meaning of Vasunam. I am the gatherer of Vasus. What is Vasu? We have seen earlier in the very first mantra itself. Vasu means wealth. Here wealth, most of these worldly people, for them wealth means only money and property. Never thinking that their bodies and minds are more important than anything else. The greatest wealth a person can really gather is called a healthy body and a healthy mind. Without these things, whatever wealth a person has, other people might, but not that person. It becomes a source of misery to that very person. So Vasunam, whatever the children need, all that Vasus, all that wealth that I gather for what purpose? So that whichever child, even before the child desires, a mother is keeping a thousand eyes. This is called Vishala Akshi. She is keeping her eyes open like a tigress or a lioness. Even though both of them seem to be dozing, but 90% of the mind is fixed on the babies. And the babies are full of vigor because there is nothing to do except in digesting the rich food that the mother has to hunt, it has to eat, it has to digest, it has to convert into the rich milk. And these fellows, just as they go on, they are like roly-poly things. They will be rolling over, sometimes stomachs are bulging and hanging down. And some are so greedy, even when others are sleeping, they want to go and get more of their shares like Bhimsena. So this is the Divine Mother. She has already given. Whenever they need, even before they are asking, the mother gives to them whatever is necessary. She is the manifest of everything. I am the Ishwari, I am the Queen of all the wealth and then I am Chikitushi, I am a knower of Brahman. So Nachiketa, that is called Nachiketa, that is always wants to know what is the highest knowledge. So the Divine Mother here says, I am a knower of Brahman. Who can say I am a knower of Brahman? Only a knower of Brahman. There was a very funny incident in the life of Sairam. Once a madcap visited Dakshineswar and then he met Sairam Krishna in the Panchavati and that fellow is laughing. So his whole head and heart was out and he was very ferocious. Even the beggars did not allow him to sit with them and eat the food from the refuge, what is called a heap. So Sairam Krishna met him. Sairam Krishna was trembling, but he recognized him. And then that fellow comes and says, Sairam Krishna asks, are you a Brahman Jnani? And that fellow comes nearer and says, very beautifully taken in the movie, he laughs and says, don't tell anybody, I am a Brahman Jnani. He did not tell that to anybody, only to Sairam Krishna. Why? Because Sairam Krishna had recognized him. You know the rest of the story. Sairam Krishna went and told to his nephew Hriday, he is a Brahman Jnani. And then we know the story. Hriday started following him, Sir, Sir, make me your disciple. Anyway, this Aham Chiketu Shri and I am the Prathama. From Nirguna Brahma, I have emerged as the Eshwara, Prathama. Call him Eshwara, call him Shakti. Sairam Krishna used to call what Vedantins call Eshwara as Shakti. And then says, Prathama Yagnayanam. That is, you want to worship. In whom do we worship? How do we worship? And why do we worship? We only worship. What is worship? The desire of some fulfillment. I am in need of something. Whether I express it or not, a baby is hungry, he simply cries. He doesn't say, I am hungry, Mom, I am giving food. He doesn't know how to cry. But the mother understands. The same fellow, mischievous fellow, he starts crying. Mother will not even look at him. Let him go on crying. So that will make him more hungry. Then I will feed him. Because there is a mischievous crying and there is a real crying. As soon as the mother hears the real crying, she recognizes it immediately. She runs. Whatever she is doing, as Sri Ramakrishna so graphically describes, she throws everything, even the rice she is doing. And then immediately comes, takes the baby and then starts. She understands, my baby is very hungry. I must feed him. No time gap left. So Prathama Yagnayanam means those who are worthy of worship. Who are worthy of worship? Lakshmi is worthy of worship. Saraswati is worthy of worship. Kumaraswami is worthy of worship. Ganesha is worthy of worship. Shiva is worthy of worship. Vishnu is worthy of worship. Myriad Gods and Goddesses. Jesus Christ is worthy of worship. Mother Mary is worthy of worship. Allah is worthy of worship. Why? Because this is our concept. So these concepts are according to our needs. So even in Svargaloka, we imagine that some people think that if I go there, a very beautiful wife will be available. Those who suffer from good water. For example, the Middle East. So they will go to paradise. There will be always cool streams of water flowing. And with beautiful wives. Not one or two, but according to my information, 72. Each one fellow, and I don't know whether one fellow looks at the other woman and says that I want that one quarrel. There also, Iran-Iraq war will be there. God alone knows. This is their concept. Swami Vivekananda was making fun. I was born in a place where practically throughout the year it is raining. I wish a dry place. So my heaven is where it rains only once in a while. That too at night when we are sleeping. By morning, it will be a beautiful cool breeze. Completely dry. So that I can enjoy. And wherever there is this kind of musala dhara vrishti, there will be mosquitoes. Growth of mosquitoes. So what is meant is, we imagine there is a place where all our desires are completely fulfilled. That is what we call. But here, yajnayana means those who worship with a definite purpose in mind. So, there are so many manifestations of Gods and Goddesses. I must be the first to be worshipped. As what? As don't worship. As a demi-God, semi-God, small God. Worship me because I am Brahman. I am a knower of Brahman. If you worship me as a knower of Brahman, then what do I give you? I don't give you money. I will not give you dharma. I will not give you artha. All other Gods and Goddesses will give you prayers. Dharma, artha, kama. But I will give you moksha. What does it mean? That means the Divine Mother will not give dharma, artha and kama. But she will give only moksha. Polish people misunderstand. No. What is it? That dharma contains both artha and moksha. Contains dharma, artha, kama. This race includes this. Nothing is left out. Poornamadha poornamidam poornath poornam udachyate. So I am the most worthy of all worthies of worship. Therefore tam me devaha yathaduhu. So what did the Devas do? The Devas had installed me everywhere in various names, various forms. Everywhere. Throughout the world. You go there. Throughout any village in India, you go there. This Divine Mother in the form of Poleramma, Maramma, she will be there everywhere. But is she what is called a small Goddess, an inferior Goddess? That is a horrible idea. It is God said that this particular Goddess or God will fulfil the needs of certain types of people whose understanding says this is the only need. And they are prepared to worship her or him. And she or he. We have to get rid of that idea of what is called this gender, male and female. That is why Shri Ramakrishna's words have to be pondered deeply. Him whom you call Brahman, I call Ash. When our human mind wants to think about without any activity the Divine, that is called Brahman. But the same Divine in the light of Srishti Stithi Laya activity, I call it Shakti. So what did these Devas do? They are our well-wishers. Te Deva Bhavayanti Vaha. So they always. Parasparambhavayantaha Sreyanparamam Vapsyatha. Sahayagnaha Prajaasrishtva Purovaca Prajapateeshwara. Created both human beings as well as the external world as well as the residing deity. And then commanded. Sahayagnaha. So you worship the Gods and Gods in their turn. They are pleased with your worship. And they grant you all the desires. But with one caveat, we have to be there. Simply don't go on saying that you fulfil my desire. Many times it will be counter product. Simply pray, Oh God, my heart longs for this. If you think this will give me what is good for me, do me what is good for me, then you grant it to me as much as good for me. If we pray that every manifested God will give us only that which will never harm us, which will always help us to move forward in the scale of evolution. So this is what he said. Tham, that means maam, me, devaha. All the different. Yadaduhu, where? Purutraaha. That means in many ways, many places, many directions. They establish my worship. Borehi sthatram. Having many stations. What does it mean? Jyotamot tatopad. This is the fact that Shri Ram Krishna is telling. As many opinions, so many paths. That means what? Somebody believes in Yaksha, Rakshasa, Kenara, they worship and I only fulfil them. Crystal clearly, Lord Krishna, whoever worships, whomsoever they worship, they only worship me. And I fulfil the desires of all those worshippers through those particular forms. Not only that, I strengthen the faith in those particular devatas. If it is a Krishna Bhakta, I will strengthen the Krishna Bhakti in a Krishna Bhakti. Shiva Bhakti in a Shiva Bhakti. Devi Bhakti in a Devi Bhakti. But ultimately the Devi, the Krishna, the Shiva, Vishnu, all are my manifest. But only thing is a person worships bhutas, pretas, pisachas, etc. Bhutan, pretagan, aams, chaniye. Why do they worship? Because their understanding is I want some supernatural. Do they really exist? Definitely they exist. One of the greatest lessons we have to learn from Shri Ram Krishna's life is don't poo poo. What is called the faith in ghosts and goblins and all these. Shri Ram Krishna had crystal clearly, undoubtedly proved that demons exist, brahma rakshasas exist, pretas, bhutas, pisachas exist, different gods and goddesses exist, all of them exist. That's why once more I am reminding you, once Ramana Maharshi was asked, So, Swarga Loka, Indra Loka, Gandharva Loka, Yaksha Loka, Bhuta Loka, all the Naraka Loka, Swarga Loka, Are all these really true or is it only the scriptures are telling to uplift our mind? And then Ramana Maharshi had given the most rational answer. Anybody can. He said if you think this Bhula Loka is real, every Loka is real. What does he mean? Means you are thinking this Bhula Loka is real. That is your faith. Supposing Shri Ram Krishna is living in this or let us take the example of Gopala Irma. After she started having visions of Gopala, in which Loka was she living? Where was her body? In Bhula Loka. What we call Bhula Loka. And where was she living? In Goloka. She is living with Bhagawan Krishna. So wherever our mind is, that is our Loka. If we are hating somebody, we are living in what is called Vesha Loka. If we are loving, we are living in the loving Loka. What happens when you enter into loving Loka? That everybody will be loving you. And everything is lovely. Everything is enjoyable. And you go into this enemy's Loka. That is called Rakshasa Loka. And then what will you see? That Rakshasa Loka is nothing but a state of your mind where your mind itself has become a Rakshasa. असुर्या नामते लोका अन्धेन तमसावरुताः तांते प्रयत्याविगच्छन्ति एकेचा अत्माहनोजनाः Those who are devoted only to this body and to cater to the body's needs, after death where do they enter? असुर्या नामते लोका असुरी लोका What is असुरी लोका? Where because this person had done so many evil deeds, he will have to suffer there. They will be sawing that fellow. And then the fact is they will give you, inject you with a particular type of Amruta where you will not lose consciousness. And they will be sawing your body from various parts of your body. Not fast, remember, very very slowly. Only one billionth of a centimetre will be cut at a given time. But they will give you that injection. That injection they give you contains two effects. One is your sensitivity to the pain increases a billion fold. And secondly, you are conscious of every different expression of pain. And then this is called असुरी लोका असुरिया नामते लोका अन्धेन तमसा वृताः What is अन्धा तमस? Means filled with indescribable unhappiness. So, in many places, and that is what I also said, Sri Ramakrishna entering the kitchen and seeing his own photograph, worshipped with flowers and said in course of time, I, this photo will be worshipped. What does he mean? Not Ramakrishna's form. सर्वदेव देवे सरूप Somebody is worshipping Lakshmi. Somebody is worshipping Saraswati. Whomsoever somebody is worshipping, what we call Satan. Somebody is worshipping Jesus. Somebody Buddha. Somebody Allah. Doesn't matter. Whomsoever I am worshipping, I manifest myself there and I fulfil all their desires. So, भूरी आवेशयन्ते So, I enter myself into the forms of all these gods and goddesses. I accept the worship of everybody and I fulfil their desires. But if their desires are temporary, then again they will fall into the same trap. So, they will have to worship me again and again. But if there is only one desire, I don't want praise. I don't want Dharma, Artha, Kama. I want only Shreyas, Paramartha, Purusha. Then Divine Mother will give only that one. In this particular third mantra, what is the Devi telling? That I am manifesting as all the सर्वदेव देवे सरूप All over the world, not only Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Christian God, Christian Goddess, Christian and Islamic God Goddess, whatever way a person must worship. Worshipping means receiving the capacity. The receiving capacity so that when the Divine Mother grants, the person must be able to enjoy. So, the rest of the Devi Suttam is also an expression of another five mantras are there. That अहम् ब्रह्मःस्मे सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्मः We will explore this idea in our classes. Om Jananem Sharadam Devem Ramakrishnam Jagadgurum Vada Padmetayoh Svaha Pranamami Mohodmohoho May Ramakrishna Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda bless us all with Bhakti. E Ramakrishna
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