In order to stay in God, when we have a free moment, we can:
- do dhun (chant the Swaminarayan mantra)
- do smruti (remember Guruhari)
- do antardrashti (introspect within)
When we sit down to do bhajan we can do all three, however in particular when we do antardrashti, that is, when we delve deep within ourselves, it is then that we can make clear contact with the God, Param Pujya Pappaji Maharaj, who is seated in our heart. When we have made such a contact, we can then hold that murti and impel the manifest God to answer our prayer; this is tivra bhajan. This type of bhajan has such an intensity that our prayers become as if our next breath may be our very last (i.e. a matter of life and death), and with such intensity we can quite literally move mountains!
There is the story of Baiju Bawra, who wanted to learn the art of classical singing from a renowned guru. He learned this art in the jungle merely by doing dhyan (meditation) of the murti of his guru. Baiju returned to his guru only to find that he was gravely ill and bedridden. Baiju Bawra then sang a bhajan from deep within his soul, his guru was so moved by this that he gained the strength to get out of his bed and not only that, for the first time in days he gained the strength to scale down a stairwell to his mandir to have the darshan of his beloved Krishna bhagwan’s murti. His guru thereafter made a full recovery; this is the strength of bhajan from deep within.
Therefore, if we all introspect deep, deep, within and make that contact with Pappaji such that we feel Pappaji is right in front of us, then like an arrow hitting the ‘bulls eye’ of a target, we can move mountains with our bhajan. Pappaji says that prayers with sincerity and from the depths of our hearts are never left unanswered. So in this way may Pappaji answer all of our prayers.
Author: S Gandhi
Sahajanand Swami Maharaj ni Jai.