Muktanand Swami sings the Shatpadi. Shree Hari grants happiness of Samadhi.
Muktanand Swami sings the Shatpadi. Shree Hari grants happiness of Samadhi.
Suvrat Munir said:-
There upon muni Muktananda, playing the Veena, sang a song with six verses in the musical scaled called Gurjari todi, with a single beat rhythm . 1.
O Lord! My friend! May my mind always rejoice in you, you are the source of external joy ; remover of hazards of worldly existence, extremely compassionate shelter for helpless beings, ocean of numerous good qualities. Your life-story and personality, known fully to great sages, is very pleasant to listen to and see. You are honoured by all the gods. 2.
Clad in white robes, with a mild smile on your moon-like face beautiful with splendid curly hair, you surpass cupid in handsomeness. 3.
With garlands of varied flowers and large Tilaka on your spacious forehead, you with wide eyes impart joy to your devotees, controlling within moments even overpowering emotions of anger etc. 4.
Wearing plentiful ornament and holding a lotus in your hand, you are the abode of highest joy, also because you impart good sense remove the faults and great fears facing your devotees, extracting for them the essence of Vedas and preventing their sins to reduce the impact of Kali on them. To remove the troubles of gods and give them heaps of pleasure, you confuse their foes, - the demons. 5 - 6.
Being very soft-hearted and compassionate towards dear ones, you cause anger to subside and pride to vanish, bestowing joy to all and hence being revered my worldly men, sages and gods alike. 7.
After these Sanskrit verses, he began to sing God’s glories through the local tongue with devotion; and other sages adept in singing joyfully repeated after him, or provided a chorus. 8 - 9.
Mean while, Shri Hari provided them the beat by rhythmic clapping, and looked around at his devotees with compassionate glances. 10.
Group Samadhi granted to thousands of male and female devotees. As a result thereof, thousands of men and women went into a trance, viewing him alone in his eternal heavenly, abode, shining blazing forth like myriads of suns put together. 11.
Some saw him with two arms while others found him with four or eight arms in diverse divine locations, attended upon by the opulence of various powers like Anima, Lagima, etc.. 12.
Upon rising from the trance, each one began narrating to him curious companions whatever his wonderful other worldly experience had been within the inner space of his heart. 13.
Those few people who earlier had doubts regarding his Lordship knew for certain that Shri Hari himself was indeed the supreme Lord, having experienced that miracle and also heard about it from the mouths of others. 14.
Evil souls who had come there not to participate but to wean their relatives away from the Lord, they too immediately became his adherents, upon visualizing his prowess. 15.
Having thus overjoyed everyone, that Lord of men asked them all to go home. Then he too retired into his beautiful tent and relaxed. 16.
Each day he provided such ecstasy to his worshipers coming there; and spread his fame on earth as the bestower of joy upon all. 17.
With each day that he stayed on in that city, the love of people kept on growing. 18.
Also, people from different localities prepared novel dishes there, that became tastier day by day. So did his sermons become more and more relishing each day. 19.
Some day, he would spell out the proper duties of women or of caste and life-stage, laid down by scriptures, to be performed along with devotion to Krishnas another day, on characteristics of those possessing knowledge, detachment and devotion; or on polity, charity, salvation etc., 20 - 22.
Some day he would explain Pancaratra philosophy or Sankhya or Yoga or specialties of a perfect Parama hamsa Yogis. 23. Sometimes he spoke on atonement of sin or of leniencies allowed in adversity. 24.
Despite having all desires fully gratified, Lord personally performed all duties typically enjoined for his Brahmin caste, while playing a human role. So too he observed rules of fasts vows, as an example for people to learn on days fixed in the calendar. 25 - 26.
In the beginning of a new year, i.e. the first bright day of Chaitra month, he organized the worship of Vasudeva in form of Brahma, the creator. 27.
On the third day of the same month, commencement of the era etc., He made people to satiate, Brahmins with food and gold, and cows in the scriptural procedure on the birth anniversary of Fish-incarnation. Then he took meals at his brother’s place as usual and prepared to leave for returning to Durgapura. 28 - 29
Thus ends the sixtythird chapter entitled, ‘Narration of depiction of acts perform on various days,’ in the third prakaran of Satsangi Jivan, the life story of Lord Narayan, also titled as Dharmashastra. (the rules of the code of conduct). 63