Four Kind Of Devotee

Shri Krishna as a Child: A representational image

चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनो अर्जुन 

आर्तो जिज्ञासुर अर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भारतषर्भ  Chapter 7 verse 16

In the above verse Shri Krishna tells Arjun that there are four kind of devotee who worships me. A person who all the time ask for some or the other thing such as wealth, or fulfillment of other desire, the one who worships me only at a time of distress such as tremendous monetary loss or deteriorating health, the one who want to know me through books and observation of the nature and the one knows me as I am i.e. the one who remembers me all the time in the form of my teachings as he knows i.e. understands me very well.

Shri Krishna further adds that out of all the four the one who knows me is my favourite, as he is just my form, there is no difference between him and me, than he further clarifies that I am Arjun among the Pandavas, I am Ved Vyas among all the knowledgeable and I am the Ram among Aryans this means that all the people he mentioned are equivalent to him in terms of Knowledge.

Further Shri Krishna tells Arjun that

न  कर्तृत्वं न  कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः 

न कर्मफल संयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते   Chapter 5 Verse 14

Here Shri Krishna beautifully describes to Arjun regarding what is the role of all mighty in an individual's life, he says that neither I do anything neither I make the being to do anything and I don't even create an opportunity so that some thing happens but rather things happen due to personal habits as well guna ( properties) of the being. For eg : All Top order Batsman are usually better than the bowler due to habit of continuously practicing batting but some batsman eg Sachin or Sehwag or take any batsman of your choice are better than the other due to properties such as hand eye coordination and muscles power, timing or placing the ball and etc, but people think that Sachin Tendulkar is lucky, and I know some of you will argue that he is lucky to have these guna, but I will say it is just a chance and not luck.

In the very next verse he says

नादत्ते कस्यचित् पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः 

अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः Chapter 5 verse 15

The above shloka is said, to understand that the almighty is not bothered about the sins that you have committed take for eg: all the US president so far( they have done loads of crime) or all the leaders of political parties of India who have accumulated lots of money of poor, they live their life, grow old and die, neither he is pleased about the good work you have done,  recall anyone in your life, at least some of the people who died in Kedarnath temple cloud burst must have been very nice individual or the innocent kid who have give lots of happiness to his/her parents is killed by cancer, but due to ignorance, people are deluded in to this myth.

The above shloka can also be understood with the help of eg of Samrat Ashok or Angulimal who have killed lots of innocent people, but when both of them wanted to improve they were welcomed under a spiritual umbrella, a umbrella for self awareness.

Its Cool to be enlightened

Let me ask you one thing, what do you expect a enlightened human being to be, for instance do you like him to be like Sai baba he was born in 1900 century in India, so not way back only 100 or say 150 year old.

We expect them to move in a slow motion, having a light glowing over their head as if they are carrying a bulb along with them, be miraculous, don't have erection on seeing a sexy woman or vice verse i.e. they should completely ridicule the laws of nature, they should put fire on water, carry a mountain on his little finger, this is what we expect and many such things and this is the reason why we get these things from so called human incarnation of GOD, but why we expect something like this, is it not a miracle that you breathe, is it not a miracle that child grows or say birth of a child but we are ignorant we want more so we expect them to produce motichur ka ladoo or say an apple from air, is that our expectation of God, this can be done by a Magician too, this was the very reason why person like Shri Satya Sai baba made fool of our self.

This is the reason why Shrimad Bhagwat was crafted in such a beautiful manner by Shri Ved Vyas, because he knew it is not possible to make everyone understand the meaning of enlightened human, there is interesting anecdote in Mahabharata where Yasohda finds Shri Krishna eating soil she scold him and ask him to open his mouth, when he open his mouth she see the entire universe in his mouth, now you will say "that what god should be like", my dear friend this story was very cleverly planted by Shri Ved Vyasa, the universe which Yashodha sees in the mouth of Shri Krishna was nothing but actually the knowledge of the universe which comes from his mouth. Yashodha gets scared as any normal mother would be as she use to consider him her son and not a enlightened person, she thought might be her son is under the influence of some spirit, this what happens even today also.

We expect a enlightened person to be with grown up beard and hair like Jesus and wearing saffron colour or white colour Dhoti, was Shri Krishna or Shri Ram were really like that, you will now say yes, that though Shri Ram and Krishna not have grown up beard but they do use to have grown up hair and use to wear Dhoti, my dear friend that Dhoti and hair cut was style of that era, for instance what is happening in movies now Amitabh, Akshay and Sanjay Dutt act as a God in film and they are suited booted, and it is just 100 years of Indian cinema may be 5000 years down the line we will see that pictures of Akshay Kumar as Shri Krishna in the houses i.e. God wearing tie & suit.

Shri Krishna says that " My devotee will never be shattered or destroyed" so what we have translated this statement in to, that if you are a true devotee of Krishna than you can drink even poison and you will not die, take for eg: story of meera bai, my dear friend Shri Krishna continuously emphasizes on Science and Wisdom he repeated says during his conversation with Shri Arjun that "I will again repeat the Knowledge for you which comprises of Wisdom and Science", everything in this universe in governed by the principal of science, science is specific and wisdom is generalized, might be we are unaware of the science of something today but we will be aware of it in the coming years or say days, so something which is not defined today comes under the category of Wisdom. By virtue of this same wisdom a devotee of Krishn will not drink or eat poison by himself b'coz he will be quick witted and clever and this has been said by Shri Krishna himself in Bhagwat geeta.

Coming back to the point of Sai Baba people say that he was not an enlightened human but rather GOD with miraculous power, I use to ask myself that if he was having so much of miraculous power then why didn't he just puffed and scared away the Britishers. Do you have a answer. :) OM

Science of Sourdough and not eating too hot or too cold

I always use to ask myself a question that why we fed the statues of Deity with food, b'coz I didn't use to see even  a drop of reduction in the volume of food offered to god. I googled it and I found out answer that was not accepted by my mind, I tried to forget it but don't know why in my subconscious I was thinking for it.

Thanks to lot of mediums today available to us like TV, internet, thanks to my upbringing in India and thanks to Shri Ved Vyas and Shri Krishn the author and narrator respectively of Shri Bhagwat Geeta , I concluded that everything which animals other than human eat in natural state has life in it, whether you talk about the herbivores or you talk about the carnivore, but man eat dead (or say dry) grain and lentils (daal) and legumes(seed eg Rajma) i.e. a grain that has been rooted up and dried and stored for long period of time. They don't spoil quickly.

Chapatis or say bread are made from generally wheat, millet, sorghum  flour etc each of them have a bran over it, this bran is some what similar to husk of a fruit like mango now do you eat mango or do you eat mango husk, ofcourse , the answer is yes I eat Mango pulp and not the husk.

Now just sit back and think for a while, which state of India was one of the most prosperous state of India, which state has provide us maximum revolutionaries? A state whose men and women are tall and healthy? It was Punjab my friend, what was the diet they had? Tandoori roti, Nan, Bhature all these were made out of maida and today we are being taught that maida is bad for health. Maida indeed in bad for health only if it has been made with the help of some chemicals, which generally the companies are adding to fasten up the process of bleaching. Our ancestors use to ferment the dough its called Khamir in Hindi and fermentation in English, this process will naturally break the husk of the grain and put your digestive track on ease.

Now please don't be arrogant and think " Whatever" or "कुछ नहीं होता यार " b'coz as long as our digestive system is intact we are healthy but our body is aging and it can backfire at anytime b'coz of the wrong food habits.

Science behind feeding Bhog to Deity

I always use to ask myself a question that why we fed the statues of Deity with food, b'coz I didn't use to see even  a drop of reduction in the volume of food offered to god. I googled it and I found out answer that was not accepted by my mind, I tried to forget it but don't know why in my subconcious I was thinking for it.

Thanks to lot of mediums today available to us like TV, internet, thanks to my upbringing in India and thanks to Shri Ved Vyas and Shri Krishn the author and narrator respectively of Shri Bhagwat Geeta , I concluded that everything which animals other than human eat in natural state has life in it, whether you talk about the herbivores or you talk about the carnivore, but man eat dead grain and lints (daal) and legumes(seed eg Rajma) and we cook it at high temperature, so even if our food has some microrganism it dies at a high temperature of pressure cooker or if we don't heat under pressure cooker than the prolonged heating of the food under significant temperature kills the micro organism, but if we eat by the principal of cook and serve than we are eating very hot food which is totally dead food i.e. no micro organism at all, now have you heard about the curd and good effect of it, what it is? A bunch of billions of bacteria, yes micro organism that's what I am talking about, good bacteria or say the enzymes which scientist are not able to produce in their labs.

Now what is good bacteria, yakult say it probiotic drink has 6.5 billion good bacteria in it, but hold on I am not asking you to keep your food that long, as long as we keep milk so that it becomes curd, but as said in "Bhagwat Geeta" that " Food should neither be too hot or too cold", b'coz in either case the microorganism will not grow,  the moment you cook your lints, let it cool down and be just warm and let your chapatis be also little cold, b'coz micro organism are always present in the air, the moment your chapatis will cold enough for them to settle and multiply they will grow and in this way you will be eating a live food and all this doesn't take much time the process is very quick as the heat and water has already made the cook stuff easy to metabolise, now please don't go by the Jainism philosophy i.e. if it will have microbes I can't hurt them. B'coz it is the law of the nature and acknowledging the law of nature is being practical in life

Now again talking about chapatis, chapatis are made from generally wheat, millet, sorghum  flour etc each of them have a bran over it, this bran is some what similar to husk of a fruit suppose take for eg: mango now do you eat mango or do you eat mango husk, don't be irritated :) , the answer is yes I eat Mango pulp and not the husk, now to do something similar in the case of wheat it is not possible to remove husk of all the grains of wheat, so what should we do, the answer is simple, our ancestors use to do it but we have forgotten to do the same b'coz we have learned the art of cooking but forgotten the science of cooking, did u get it, no ok I will tell you its called Khamir in Hindi and fermentation in English, or say we should prepare the sourdough of the wheat or whatever the flour is if it is of a grain, this process will naturally break the husk of the grain and put your digestive track on ease.

Now please dn't be arrogant and think " Whatever" or "कुछ नहीं होता यार " b'coz as long as our digestive system is intact we are healthy but our body is aging and it can backfire at anytime b'coz of the wrong food habits. :) Om

Where to find a enlightened person

Similar quote is available in Bhagwat Geeta also

You can find a plenty of Guru in the market right from the local astrologer near by your house or  national Guru like Asharam or international Guru like Ramdev and Sri Sri RaviShankar, but where can you find a enlightened person, a person whom Sri Krishna said he is my mirror image and he is available in all Yug i.e. all ages where can you find a Guru like that. Please don't think of trying to go to Himalayas to search him, he will be among us only. Shri Krishna tells Shri Arjun that

"Out of 1000 people only 1 tries to know me and out of those 1000 who tries to know me only 1 knows me".

That means only 1 in a million realise God, similar to the quote of buddhist monk in the above picture, so the answer is very simple, it is written in Geeta itself that it is very rare that you can find a person like that, the one who really knows about the God actually never comes in front because he knows that people are ignorant and they will not listen to him, for eg: Shri Ved Vyas the author of Bhagwat Geeta and Mahabharatha didn't boasted about his enlightenment but he very cleverly hinted the same in Bhagwat geeta when Shri Krishna tell to Shri Arjun that "Among saint I am Ved Vyas" and also Shri Krishna doesn't tell Shri Arjuna who was his closest friend about the Knowledge of Geeta during his early days, it is only when Shri Arjuna begs for wisdom in front of Shri Krishna that he grant him the knowledge.

Further Shri Krishn tells Shri Arjun that " It is very rare to find someone who sees his self (i.e the English for Atma) as a wonder, someone who describe it as a wonder and someone who hear it as wonder and Some even after hearing it are unable to understand the same".

Our expectation of a enlightened person is actually totally wrong, we expect him to be a miraculous who will defy all the laws of the nature, who can fly, who can bring a dead man alive, who is not attracted toward the opposite sex, we want him to be like Jesus who was crucified on a cross or we want him to be Krishna who lifted the mountain on his small finger, we don't expect a Enlightened Man to show us the mirror that we are hitting axe on our own leg, the water has lost it sweetness, fish are contaminated with mercury and the list goes on and on, we don't want  to see the God in Arvind Kejriwaal who almost did a miracle by removing the Delhi government, similar to what Shri Ram did by challenging the might of Ravan with the help of few Monkeys. Om :)