• Having been given this human body, the highest form of evolution and that which can lead to enlightenment, i should be grateful first.
• Then realize this ephemeral nature if life and with my mind fixed in Narayana, develop purity through selfless sacrifice and service to others. Work hard to detach from ABCs.
• with purity of mind, i should focus only on the changeless Self – 24×7 and look at others as me.
• once this happens, the Maya veil is ripped and i will BE!

16. (10.87.29) – As reflected earlier, Thou has no partiality towards beings, it is my doing i am in this body. But You made me feel Your grace and in fact showered Your grace upon me so i know these facts intellectually – please make me constantly revel in Thee!

17. (10.87.30) – i am limited by my frame, but You are Absolute and All-pervading. When i contemplate on You, please make me feel as You so i don’t see the difference as i see now, Bhagavan!

18. (10.87.31) – Love the pointers here for my reflection – like the honey collected cannot be figured out from which flower it came from or the water in the Ocen, from which river it was formed – in the same way, i cannot be this jIva as well as PuruSa all at once. Please help me merge with You so i see Oneness all around me!

19. (10.87.32) – This wheel of samsAra that was given me by my KarmAs, please constantly hammer in me that i serve You completely, for realizing that Time(past, present and future) is the one thing that causes fear and this can be rid of by serving You.

20. (10.87.33) – Help me surrender completely to my Guru (who in fact is You) and help me mount this horse of a mind that keeps running wildly without any direction.

21. (10.87.34) – I contemplate on You O! Bhagavan, who are changeless so all else that is subject to change starting from my inside to outside do not cause disturbances and my focus is on ONLY You, like a glass that is turned towards the Sun and shown on a piece of paper slowly heats it up and burns it.

22. (10.87.35) – Make me realize like the wise ones that rituals and visiting holy places do not purify me, but surrendering at Thy feet will help me understand even the home that i am living in now (this body) can cause impurities as i live in this world. So help me use this body for the service of this world to return back to You.

23. (10.87.36) – i understand the Vedas came from You and they are my foundation and path to BEING You. Please make me constantly know that this world is unreal even though it came from You and You entered it. You the cause is SAT and the effect, this world is my vikShepa (ASAT).

24. (10.87.37) – You, Sat-Cit-Ananda are REAL. Let not geetha forget this fundamental concept O! Bhagavan!

25. (10.87.38) – Macrocosmic Maya is microcosmic ignorance in me. i contemplate on Thee, who is the Mayapati and free of Maya, ever effulgent. Please help remove this ignorance covering so i can BE You – like the screen in front of God in the temple is pushed aside for us to see Bhagavan. Please shower your grace on me so this happens soon!

26. (10.87.39) – i sometimes forget You inside waiting for me to remove these false layers and come to Thee – when i start focussing on the world more. Help me please during these times to get back to you and not get lost like a mother who finds her child and takes the child back home safely. Please do not allow me to lead a life of a hypocrite but help me practice what is in my mind and what is getting stronger everyday – that i am You.

27. (10.87.40) – O Bhagavan, i am indeed bhagya, that i have had the opportunity of great teachings of our Gurushishyaparampara. Help me remember this perpetually and be ever grateful. Let this be my last ever time away from You. Please help me take the path to Your abode. i already feel you want me back but please be persistent and make me feel this urgency so i don’t stray and spend more time away from my sweet home!

28. . (10.87.41) – You are limitless, which is not realized by even Brahma who came from Your navel and is closest to You. Help me not deviate from the words of the Veda which surely is the map home for this lost sheep. Please illumine my heart with You, the Atman!

1. (10.87.14) – O Mayapati! Help me remove my ignorance, so i see You as this world.

2. (10.87.15) – Just as the Vedas and wise ones know You as the only Absolute; hammer into every breath of mine that all ABCs are relative and see you as the Absolute one!

3. (10.87.16) – O Bhupati! Help me constantly remember the limitations of deSa, kAla and vastu and remain in the only thought that You are the Goal, the one who can take me past these limitations.

4. (10.87.17) – O Bhagavan! You have given me this form with all its sheaths. Help me see You as the AdhiStAna beyond and beneath this – to see You as my true Self!

5. (10.87.18) – O Vishnu with SahasranAma! Help me go from the grossest chakra to subtle one to the subtlest SahasrAra where You are seated. Help me be focused on You throughout the day as i go about doing my work!

6. (10.87.19) – Help me realize that all beings i engage with are all You! Just as my nature softens when i think of Thee, help me accept all around me.

7. (10.87.20) – All of us are You but in these bodies due to our past Karmas. Help me remember this as my breath every moment and see only the core of all these bodies as You O Bhagavan!

8. (10.87.21) – The wise ones, know You through Thy incarnations – they see your true nature and are so firmly rooted in this belief that they want to revel in this Bhakti(5th puruSaArtha) instead of MokSa(4th). Give me this firm conviction O Narayana!

9. (10.87.22) – i see that is body will soon be emaciated; i understand that You are at the core of me! But i act like i am an immortal and feel like indulging in this filthy unstable life, even though i know it will not be the same always. Please give me the memory to remember this every Kshanam so my thought is only of You and i use this valuable birth that You have given to get back to You!

10. (10.87.23) – O Bhagavan! i realize if i have the passion to come to You, You will make it happen. But help me so this passion is continuous(every monent) and not during convenience!

11. (10.87.24) – You are the reason we are all here, with You in us. You are our Original Parent without a parent. Just as my parents made me understand who they and i are, i now need only You to teach me who i and You are. Please help me be one with You!

12. (10.87.25) – O God! Help me constantly realize that You are Shuddha Chaitanya which has no place for ignorance. Help me BE that!

13. (10.87.26) – Just as in an ocean all is but water, so too all around me is Existence in Your form with You in them – the outer covering is Asat but You in them all is Sat! Hammer this into me constantly O Bhagavan!

14. (10.87.27) – Give me the ultimate Devotion in my life O Narayana! I have realized rituals are to discipline me and are not the goal -You!

15. (10.87.28) – Not realizing Your true nature as myself, i was following vain practices and rituals. Though this has reduced considerably, for fear that sometimes i might lose Your favor, i continue to do so by the force of beings around me. Please help me be free of this and be in your nature alone!

“They who worship You as the shelter of all created beings, simply put their feet on the head of Death and look away from him. With Your words You tie up even the scholars [among the non-devotees], the way one ties up animals. Those [among them] who consider themselves Your friends [thus] arrive at purification, but not so they who turned away from You.”

Personalize-
What have I don’t to deserve this? The grace that has been bestowed to be at Your feet, to feel Your love, it still amazes me. You have been with me at the beginning and You will be with me at my end ( of ego). Waiting for the death of my ego when we finally become One.

“The threefoldness and its forms up to the human beings, appears as something real to the mind, but is in You seen as something untrue [as temporal]. The entirety of this world with its forms is by the knowers of the Self not rejected as being different from the Self [though]. Because the forms [and also persons] created by Him are transformations not different from Him, like forms of gold all being gold, they consider this creation, which was entered by Him, as being Him in person.”

Personalizing –
Loving You means loving Your creation and vice versa as all is manifestation of You. It’s easy to love You, I find it difficult to love Your creation sometimes only due to my own inadequacy. You are most beautiful and due to lack of my vision I fail to see that beauty in all beings around me. I am trying to be better at reminding myself of Your presence in All.

“They who, teaching with authority, declare that life springs from dead matter, that that what is eternal would end that the soul would not be one and that doing business would constitute reality,they who state that the living being thus would have been produced from the three modes are fixed on a dualistic notion born from ignorance. Such a thing cannot exist in Your transcendence, in You, who are the Essence of Full Perception.”

Personalizing-

Many lifetimes have been spent in ignorance. Now that I have seen the light, there is no turning back. Though I still operate in duality but I have developed understanding of Oneness and I will not stop until the oneness becomes my experience and not just intellectual understanding .

“Ah, who out here, who but recently was born and soon will die, has an inkling of the One Who Came First, from whom the [leading] seer [Brahmâ] arose who was followed by the two groups of demigods [controlling the senses and the principles? When He lies down to withdraw, at that time nothing remains of the gross and the subtle, nor of that what comprises them both [the bodies], while also the flow of Time and the S’âstras are no longer there.”

Personalize-

Bring little obsessive about time, almost controlled by it, I try to surrender to Mahakaal- the controller of time, the timeless. He who is beyond the boundaries of time is the One from whom everything emerges and absorbs. Extrapolating that, it means I also emerged from Brahman and will be absorbed in Brahman. This life that I live is a micro particle in the endlessness of Brahman .

“That what by the sages, with their breathing, mind and senses being brought under control in steadfast yoga, is worshiped in the heart, is also attained by those who remember You. We [the s’rutis] will likewise attain You and, being equally considered by You, equally relish the nectar of the lotus feet enjoyed by the women [the gopîs, Your wives] whose minds are attracted to Your arms firm as mighty snake bodies. “

Personalizing –
I am fortunate to learn Your glories. The love personified by Gopi’s, Adisesha is a great inspiration for me to intensify my journey to reach You. I thought I was mumukshu, but to reach that stage still needs more effort. My love has grown but it still needs to reach greater heights. This Bhakti has happened and will intensify only with Your grace.

“This body useful for serving You, acts as one’s self, one’s friend and beloved. They however, who alas fail to delight in You, rather find the degradation of the physical frame [in successive births], in spite of You as their very Self being favorably disposed, helpful and affectionate. As a matter of fact they, failing to find their way with their great existential fears, cling to material desires and are [thus] self destructive in their worship of the unreal.”

Personalizing-
I do not know how many times I have been born before and I what sahie and form, but this human birth must have come after a lot of evolution as through this form only I can become infinity. With the tools I have been given, (body, mind and intellect) I can use them to reach Him. What is the point of these gifts I have been given if I’m going to squander them away on materials and desires?
One day this body will be incinerated. I do not know when. All I have is this present moment to feel His presence. I would be a ‘ moodha’( a fool) to lose this opportunity.