চক্ষুদান দিল যেই, জন্মে জন্মে প্রভু সেই,
দিব্যজ্ঞান হৃদে প্রকাশিত ।
প্রেমভক্তি যাঁহা হৈতে, অবিদ্যা বিনাশ যাতে,
বেদে গায় যাঁহার চরিত ॥ ৫ ||
“He who gave me the gift of sight is my master in birth after birth. He has awakened spiritual knowledge within my heart. By this prema-bhakti all ignorance is destroyed. The Vedas sing of his character and activities.”
Divine Knowledge
Sudhā-Kaṇikā-Vyākhyā: Though the spiritual nature of the jīva is that he is the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, since immemorial time he has been forgetful of this nature, having been swallowed by the gaping mouth of bahiraṅgā-māyā, the Lord’s external illusory energy. Thinking in terms of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ concerning his material body and that which is related to it, he wanders from form to form according to his desires and mental impressions, suffering the terrible worldly miseries of birth, death, old age and disease. Taking shelter of Śrī Guru and performing śrī-kṛṣṇa-bhajana is the only way to be freed from this misery.
কৃষ্ণনিত্যদাস জীব তাহা ভুলি গেল । সেই দোষে মায়া তার গলায় বান্ধিল ॥
তাতে কৃষ্ণভজে করে গুরুর সেবন । মায়াজাল ছুটে পায় কৃষ্ণের চরণ ॥
“When the jīva forgets that he is the eternal servant of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, māyā binds him by the throat. Still, if he worships Kṛṣṇa and serves his guru, the net of māyā releases him and he obtains the Lord’s lotus feet.” (CC.M.22.24-25)
After rescuing his disciple from the ocean of material life by giving him initiation and instructions, Śrī Gurudeva covers the disciple’s materialistic eyes, which are incapable of seeing God directly, and opens his spiritual eyes, suitable for seeing the supreme truth, as well as causing him to taste the nectar of kṛṣṇa-bhajana. By designating the eyes, it is implied that the sādhaka’s other senses also become spiritualized and thus capable of bhagavad-bhajana. The meaning is that the material body, mind and senses are not capable of performing śrī-kṛṣṇa-bhajana. When Śrī Gurudeva, overwhelmed by causeless compassion, gives him the dīkṣā-mantras, the disciple exclaims trāyasva bho jagannātha guro saṁsāra-vahninā, dagdhaṁ māṁ kāla-daṣṭaṁ ca tvām ahaṁ śaraṇaṁ gataḥ. “Śrī Guru! You are the embodiment of the Lord’s compassion. Please rescue me from being scorched by the fire of material life and swallowed by death! O Master, I seek your refuge.” When the disciple receives Śrī Gurudeva’s shelter and dedicates his body, mind and soul, then by the touch of the nectarous power of God known as Śrī Gurudeva’s mercy (just as iron is turned to gold by contact with the philosopher’s stone), the disciple is infused with bhakti-śakti. His body and senses become spiritualized and fit for performing bhajana to the lotus feet of Śrī Bhagavān. The sādhaka’s body, mind and senses obtain that spirituality by assuming the same nature as that of bhagavad-bhajana, and this transformation occurs solely by the mercy of Śrī Guru. In this way, Śrī Guru’s mercy qualifies the disciple to worship the lotus feet of Bhagavān, delivers him at the Lord’s lotus feet and establishes his particular relationship with the Lord. Therefore, Śrīla Ṭhākura Mahāśaya says cakṣu-dāna dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei, dibya-jñāna hṛde prakāśita. “Śrī Guru, the giver of love of Kṛṣṇa and knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, is my master birth after birth, and I am his servant birth after birth. Having freed me from materialistic vision, he has opened my spiritual eyes of devotion, smeared with the ointment of love, which are suitable for seeing God. If Śrī Guru is satisfied, he deposits the power of his compassion within one’s heart, and then the divine knowledge embodied in kṛṣṇa-dīkṣā and his instructions is realized.” This clearly indicates the master-servant relationship between Śrī Guru and the disciple, as well as the permanent nature of that relationship. As the result of his past actions, the wandering jīva is born into various wombs, and in each birth he establishes connections with a different mother and father, and with different friends and relatives. But the guru-śiṣya relationship is not like that. At a suitable time after many births, the very same Śrī Guru becomes present before his disciple and causes him to drink the sweet rasa of bhajana, blesses him with the gift of prema and leads him into the kingdom of līlā for the direct sevā of his beloved Lord. Ah! The mercy of Śrī Guru! Nothing compares to this!
(to be continued...)
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