Worship the Overself or  Bhaja Govindam III

                                                                                                 

 

Vayasi gate kaç kámavikáraç
Ùuúke nire kaç kásáraç
kúiïe vitte kaç pariváro
iòáte tattve kaç samsáraç.  

 

Where is Lust  

When Youth is gone?  

Or the lake supernal

When water has evaporated?

Whither dependents

When money is gone ?

Where empirical process

Called Sansar

When Absolute is actualised ?

 

má kuru dhanajanayauvanagarvam
harati nimeúát kalaç sarvam,
máyámayam idam akhilam hitvá,
brahmapadam tvam praviùa viditvá.

 

Do not be proud

Of wealth,youth or kindred

Know that this Universe

Is a projection of Mind Universal

And actualise the Self !

dinayáminyau sáyam prátaç
ùèùiravasantau punar-áyátaç
kálaç krèãati gacchaty-áyus-
tapapi na muòcaty-áùaváyuç.(12)

 

Of the bipolarities of Nature

We are aware

Dusk and dawn, night and day,

Winter and Spring

Repeatedly comes

Time sports

Life is fleeting

Yet Desire does not leave Man !

 

ká te kántá-dhana-gata-cintá
vátula kim tava násti nivantá
trijagati sajjana sañgatir eká
bhavati bhavárïava-taraïe nauká.(13)

 

 

 

Why worry at all

About wife, family, wealth

Is there no Ordainer ?

Satsang or camaraderie with the good

Alone can pave the way for Release !

aïgam gallitam palitam muïãam
daùanavihinam játam tuïãam
vøddho yáti gøhitvá daïãam
tadapi na muòcaty-áùapiïãam.

Body becomes decrepit

Grey has become head

Mouth is toothless

Old man grasps stick

Still Desire does not leave !

agre vanhiç pøúûhe bhánü
rátrau cubuka-samarpita-jánuç
karatalabhikúas tarutalavásas
tapadi na muòcaty-áùapáùaç.

Fire at the front

Sin at the back

Ascetic sits

With knees stuck to chin

Receives alms in his palms

Lives under trees

Yet Desire does not leave him !

 

kurute gañgáságaragamanam
vrataparipálnam athava dánam,
jòánavihènaç sarvamatena
muktim na bhajati janmaùatena.

 

 

People go on pilgrimages

Where Ganga joins sea

Observe vows religious

Donate  gifts to all

But if he be devoid

Of Self Knowledge

Never actualises Self
Even in hundred lives !

 

Translation By  Govind  Kumar