March 13, 2011
Speech of HH Sri Datta Vijayananda Teertha Swamiji - March 13, 2011 - Mysore
JAYA GURU DATTA
SRI GURU DATTA
1. Yesterday Sri Swamiji has dedicated the concert to the victims of JAPAN MASSACRE a natural calamity where many lost lives untimely and many are in need of help and support.
2. Today we all are doing this Namasankeerthana and this is for those country citizens who require lot of support morally and in all ways .Lets all maintain 1 minute silence.
3. The Nature has no pity and can make lot of devastations and all is as per the mother goddess wish and all we can pray is to make those actions softer and help us to face any situations of such extent in future.
Sri BalaSwamiji has sung many inspiring bhajans and in one bhajan before singing the song of KASI KASI narrated the importance of this kshetra .
Kasi is a place of Lord siva and even in dissolution this place remains intact .People like to leave their last few days of life and leave their mortal body as this is the most auspicious and pious places of highest realms.
One cannot gauge the merit one gets by just thinking of the name or spell the word kasi kasi .People saints and yogis always throng to this place and get attached to this place as this palce has the great ganga the Varanasi rivers and sankat mochan hanuman dundi ganapathi mother vislakshi and Visweswara Siva and all gods are available at kasi .This place is so close to all beings that one has to visit this place once in their life time and we are all lucky to visit this place with our sadgurudeva last year .Staying for a day brings more merit points but we stayed for a week and cannot explain the merit that all of you have accrued in that most pious visit .
We need to always think of all kshetras even though we are not there and this brings us more energy and positive energy and is a good penance to always remember these important places like Kasi;Srisailam ;Tirumala Balaji;Kalagnishamana dattatreya ;Datta venkataramana and many important kshetras of utmost importance .
Sri Balaswamiji in his Sunday Divya nama sankeerthana has narrated as story which will touch all of us and gives a real meaning of our actions deeds and how we need to live and talk and think ….
This is a actual story of a women in era of sri Tulasidas who has written “Ramacharita manasa “ in a simpler form for all of us easier and simpler understanding .
In a village there was a lady who was not perfect and has a lesser character in the society .But even though she is of that character she has a wish to listen and render “RAMACHARITA MANASA “ in her life time .When ever where ever this is being recited she used to go and listen too but as we all know the society is bad and does not entertain such people still she made a courageous entry to a place and was listening to the verses with utmost seriousness .But there many gossips made rounds in the back side where she was sitting and this spread to the front rows and soon the person who is rendering the verses felt as if he is reading or chanting anything wrong .Such was the status of the crowd there inspite of the wonderful discourse they were disturbed by this gossip which was making rounds in that place .Watching all this an old lady checked this lady out of the discourse and she felt very bad for this action .
This was known to Sri Tulasidas and as he is the most compassionate waited for the right time.But this lady meanwhile met Sri Tulasidas and expressed her wish and all her problems she encountered earlier .Sri Tulasidas asked her to chant the lords name and sing the same in her house from hereon .
The lady went to kasi and then to Brindavan and in her house recited daily the ramacharita manas and also sung the glory of the lord .Meanwhile the lady had a wish to welcome Sri Tulasidas to her home and also serve the food and offer prasadam to the lord in holy presence of Sri Tulasidas .
This wish of her Sri Tulasidas was aware of as he is not an ordinary person and thought once what will society think and but to everyone’s surprise when he visited Brindavan visited her house and also fulfilled all her wishes .The disciples who have come with him were split and few went away not able to understand sri Tulasidas action and criticized but many of his disciples have from that day increased their love and devotion in Sri Tulasidas .
The lady later in her next birth became a Yogini and many followed her in path of liberation and this story exemplifies the grace of god and when; how; where his grace is showered all we need to do is be compassionate and increase our penance and path laid down by our beloved sadgurudeva and surrender to his lotus feet .
Sri Tulasidas said that God has no discrimination on any being and also is very compassionate and equal to all beings .One must always treat people with dignity and honour and not make un necessary remarks and hurt people at any cost .People who hurt other human beings is not fair as we need to accept them as they are and try to learn to live with them as they are and seek relationships of love and divinity. We shall never hurt them and make unnecessary remarks that make a long lasting memory of us and also the way they live too as such was the case with this lady but as I said god showered grace on her and she was elevated though she was treated badly and insulted .SriTulasidas also has shown how we need to live /move with people of various attitudes and nature too from then.In this kaliyuga bad spreads fast but good messages spread slowly what to do such is the nature of this yuga .Still we need to be lovable and love all beings .
Sri Tulasidas in his era has toured the Great KASI KSHETRA too and also sung the laurels of this place too.
In meanwhile Sri Balaswamiji has also suggested we do divyanama sankeerthana and also japa and that sound shall come from the navel area as this makes us get cleansed in many ways and also be healthy .This process clears our system and also throat area and mouth too .From navel area to mouth and also chanted the name of Vittala and made all of us sing along and showed the power of such Lords name being uttered and the energy we generate in ourselves .”In lalitha sahastra nama the names para Pratyachiti roopa pasyanti para devata madyama vaikaree roopa bhaktamanasa hamsika “ means we though chant the japa in ourselves but in 4 various ways the sound emanates making this more special and dearer to the mother goddess and this sort of penance will make us more stronger and generates positive energy and makes us more healthier .Thus the sum and substance to all of us is that we need to speak/chant japa from our navel area and is more beneficial to us and it is only an initial observation we need to make but once we get used to this we get many benefits .
We all know in this kaliyuga namasankeerthana is the most auspicious task one can take up and japa .The name of Govinda was also chanted when Palaya govinda song was sung in todays bhajans and this Name “GOVINDA”is so dear to the Lord Venkateswara our chief diety in this kaliyuga .Lastly HANUMAN song most liked by us was sung “ANJANEYA GATIVEE NEEVEY JAYAMU SHUBHAMULU “
“Thus we are all blessed in todays namasankeerthana and JAPAN GET BACK TO IT NORMAL GLORY “
Sri BALASWAMIJI thus has taken all of us to a different world of NAMASANKEERTHANA as our SADGURUDEVA HAS TAKEN ALL OF US YESTERDAY IN THE CONCERT IN AUSTRALIA.
OM NAMO HANUMATHE NAMAHA
Courtesy: Sharath