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Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.
When I was sitting here today, I was listening to the recitation. Simultaneously, sometimes I was also seeing all of you receiving the flowers, walking on, coming here, offering flowers, getting up, doing prostrations and going back. I was feeling, my whole body, in a way melting or dissolving. The real essence in me, that presence which animates and activates the body, is very beautifully and nicely felt, without any disturbance, distraction, doubt or lack of clarity. This generally takes place in a mood and fervor of divinity.
I wish you understand the meaning of these utterances.
Wherever my mind goes, I find your form.
This utterance when properly made and the mind gets in tune with it, automatically, the person who utters feels the presence of the divine form, the divine feet. We should not consider it to be too lofty for us to have. It is too simple and close by. What is to be generated in us is a sense of divinity, a sense of devotional submission. How to generate it, you may wonder. Generation is had by uttering this verse feelingfully, feelingfully, feelingfully, fervently, fervently, fervently. Go on uttering it until the feeling and fervor are satisfactory to you.
For anything, there must be a practice, there must be an effort. The effort is the utterance. The practice is paying our attention to the utterance. Utterance becomes almost mechanical, readily made, but with the utterance, the effort to feel and experience that sublimity, that has to be. The purpose of the utterance is that. Always remember. Maybe it becomes very usual for you but you should arrest the usual note and try to feel and experience the sublimity it conveys. What is to be transformed is the mind, the inner personality and sound is the only force which will enter inside, in the non-bodily aspect of our being.
I think everyone of you should try to practice this. Take one or two or a few good verses and go on reciting, go on reciting, go on reciting. One verse should be recited many, many, many times. Then only it becomes a sadhana. The first utterance may not mean anything. The second too may not. But as you go on uttering, you will find, it becomes a means for you to feel, feel with all the attunement, attunement, what is stated in the utterance. I find that it is in one way very simple but hearty. It does not need any scholarliness. It needs simpleness, heartiness.
Is this not what you want? Is this not what you aim at by your sadhana? We have some constricted notions about God and divinity. We see divinity only in a picture, in an idol or in a particular form. We will see the idol in a stone image but we will not see God in the rock and the mountain from which the stone was split and taken. So, the bigger source is not God for us. The small piece divinized by us, is God. We don’t try to see God in the divinizing mind of man. The idol is divinized by man; by man’s mind. So, what about the presence of God in the mind itself? Sometime or the other, I think you have to think in this manner.
This Pushpa-samarpanam is an occasion where we are trying to generate a mood of divinity, sublimity, all generated by sound vibrations. The sound part is audible but there is an inaudible, invisible part that is in the chanters and the reciters. How much of divine fervor and attunement they feel and are able to convey through the utterance! That is the invisible part. Every day, they should try to be more and more, more and more attuned. Then the whole Pushpa-samarpanam becomes a beautiful occasion for us to divinize the participants.
Go on chanting it a few times, every time trying to be more and more what you recite. You and the recitation should become one, one, one, one. What a blessed occasion!
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru Jai Guru.
