Crying is Required!

BY: SRI VRINDAVAN DAS

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust


Oct 28, 2014 — SRIDHAM MAYAPUR (SUN) — From Saranagati (Bhajana-lalasa, hankering for divine service, 13 songs) by Sri Srimad Bhaktivinode Thakura Mahasaya (written in 1880-1897, Song 10.


Srila Gurudeva!

1--
krpa-bindu diya, koro' ei dase,
trnapekha ati hina
sakala-sahane, bala diya koro',
nija-mane sprha-hina

2--
sakale sammana, korite Sakati,
deho' natha! jathajatha,
tabe to' gaibo, hari-nama-sukhe,
aparadha ha'be hata

3--
kabe heno krpa, labhiya e jana,
krtartha hoibe natha!
sakti-buddhi-hina, ami ati dina,
koro' more atma-satha

4--
jogyata-vicare, kichu nahi pai,
tomara karuna sara
karuna na hoile, kandiya kandiya,
prana na rakhibo ara

"Gurudeva!"

1. By a drop of your mercy make this servant of yours more humble than a blade of grass. Give me strength to bear all trials and troubles, and free me from all desires for personal honor.

2. O lord and master! Invest me with the power to properly honor all living beings. Only then will I sing the holy name in great ecstasy and will all my offenses cease.

3. O lord and master! When will this person be blessed by obtaining your mercy? I am low, fallen, and devoid of all strength and intelligence. Please make me your beloved servant."

4. When I examine myself, I find nothing of good value. Your mercy is therefore essential to me. If you are not merciful, I will constantly weep, and I will not maintain my life any longer."

So this is guru-krpa, causeless mercy of Guru. And the bhakta, sisya, sadhaka should cry for it, cry for it. Unless you cry, how can you get? Without crying, nobody can get. For example, when a child cries, mother runs, "Oh my child is crying." Yes. He cannot be pacified with anything else without mother's presence.

Mother may be giving him a toy or a doll and say, "Alright, play with it, play with it." The child is playing with the doll or toy given by mother and mother is engaged in some household work but throwing out that toy or doll, the child cries, cries, cries! Child cries, mother runs. So unless you cry, how can you get it? This crying is required. Koruna na hoile, kandiya kandiya, prana na rakhibo ara. You must cry for the mercy! You must cry. Unless you cry, how can you get the real darsana of Sri Guru? This crying is required. Those who have cried they have gotten the real mercy of Sri Guru.

This weeping or crying is required. Unless the child cries, the mother will not run. The child cannot get mother's breast unless he cries. Similarly, unless you cry, how can you get? How can you have the darsana of Sri Guru? You have to cry. You have to cry! This crying is required. When the child cries, then mother runs, similarly the Guru runs, he is very merciful, causelessly merciful.

Out of causeless mercy he comes, gives darsana, whether manifested or not manifested. He comes in a dream also and gives darsana. This is guru-tattva, nitya-tattva, eternal tattva, transcendental tattva. He is prakata [manifested], not aprakata [unmanifested]. He is eternally prakata. There is no question of unmanifestion. Sri Guru is eternally manifested, this is guru-tattva.


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