Who’s Your Ultimate Refuge 🌼

Jai Sri Radhey!

I offer my obeisance in the Divine lotus feet of my Guru Maharaj who’s Dakshinamurty, who’s Radha himself. 

I asked a question in QnA section. and I got beautiful responses from you. I can see Divine were your ultimate refuge in different forms. One Param Brahma in different forms. This reminded me of one bhajan by a beautiful Devotee of Baal Krishna, Soor Daas Ji. I hope you know about him, he was blind since childhood. You can read about him here.

Naham vasami vaikunthe yoginam hridaye na cha
mad-bhakta yatra gayanti tatra tishthami narada

Neither do I reside in Vaikuntha nor in the hearts of the Yogis, 

but I dwell where my devotees sing my name, O Narada !

The Bhajan By Soor Das ji as follow:

सुनेरी मैंने निरबल के बल राम,
पिछली साख भरूँ संतन की, अड़े सँवारे काम।

(I came to know that the power of a helpless being is Rama, I came to know this after sitting in feet of Saints and my Karmic debts got cleared now because I to refuge in lotus feet of saints.)

जब लग गज बल अपनो बरत्यो, नेक सरयो नहीं काम,
निर्बल ह्वै बल राम पुकार्‌यो, आये आधे नाम।(1)

(Gaja, elephant, and Graah, crocodile, story proves my faith. When Gaja was trying to save himself by using his own power, he was unable to escape from sharp teeth of Graah. The moment he realised I’m unable to save myself, all my power is gone now and when he realised only Sri Hari can save me the he called his name in great need and what next? Hari came even before Gaja chanted his full name, he just said ‘Ha’ and Hari came there to save Gaja from Graha. All we have to do is to surrender ourselves.)

सुनेरी मैंने निरबल के बल राम।

द्रुपद सुता निर्बल भईं ता दिन, तजि आये निज धाम,
दुस्शासन की भुजा थकित भई, वसन रूप भये राम।(2)

(Story of Draupadi also make my faith even more stronger, when Pandavas lost everything and in that court when Dushashan was aboot to take Draupadi’s saree off, Draupadi called her brother Krishna and Krishna came in the form of cloth to save his devotee.)

सुनेरी मैंने निरबल के बल राम।

अप बल, तप बल और बाहु बल, चौथा है बल दाम,
सूर किशोर कृपा से सब, बल हारे को हरिनाम। (3)

(There are four kinds of strength that one posses on this earth, his or her position, penance, physical strength, wealth. But the one who doesn’t possesses anyone of these, his strength is only the name of Hari, when you find yourself in a situation where there is no one standing with you, supporting you, then remember your ultimate strength is Hari’s name.)

सुनेरी मैंने निरबल के बल राम।
सुनेरी मैंने निरबल के बल राम।

Pic credits:

Soor Das Ji Pic: sufinama.org

Display Picture: wikimedia.org and vedantadesika

Jai Sri Hari!

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