Posted on: 14 Jan 2022
1) Nā'tmastutiśca nindā ca, svapne'pi Brahmadūṣaṇam ।
sadhairyaṃ prastutaṃ buddhvā, jīvo jīvatu sarvadā ।।
[One should neither condemn the self nor appreciate the self because both are states of psychological excitation. One shall keep his/her mind in normal balanced state always, which is the best for mental as well as physical health. One shall not criticize God even in dream. One shall always live with confidence or courage, which does not mean ego-based pride. One shall always think about the present and shall neither brood over the past nor imagine about the future. One shall always live on this earth based on these fundamental principles.]
2) Pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca, netrābhyā miha paśyatu ।
ādya divyā svato tvanyā, svaprayatnā pratikṣaṇam ।।
[While living life on this earth, one shall keep concentration of view of the two eyes on both Pravṛtti or worldly life and Nivṛtti or spiritual life. One shall know that there is no need of any effort to concentrate on the worldly life because such a view is always spontaneous and natural. The other view on spiritual life is not spontaneous or natural, which can be developed by constant effort only that is to be done every minute. The reason for the force in Pravṛtti is that it is implemented by God as it is His ultimate aim. The Nivṛtti is discovered, developed and implemented by souls and hence, Nivṛtti can be attained only by constant efforts of the souls. This does not mean that Pravṛtti is higher than Nivṛtti. In fact, Nivṛtti is giving highest fruit (Nivṛttistu mahāphalā). God knows this fact being omniscient, but, made Pravṛtti as compulsory, which is necessary for the basic peace of the creation. God did not force for Nivṛtti even though it is giving highest and eternal fruit due to difficulties in the path. You are forced by parents to become a graduate at least and you are not forced to become an IAS!]
3) Artha kāma puro gacchet, na paścāt kvacidetayoḥ ।
Putreṣaṇā ''dyagā gacchet, sukhaduḥkhe mitādhikau ।।
[One shall never run after earning wealth (Dhaneṣaṇā) and desire for sex (Dāreṣaṇā). One shall always be walking before these two and these two shall run after the soul. Both these remain here only and will never follow the soul after death. The most important heard item is attachment to one’s own children (Putreṣaṇā). The first (Dhaneṣaṇā) and third (Putreṣaṇā) are always interlinked because finally all the earned wealth is given to children only. The little wealth earned through justice without any sin will tremendously multiply their earnings whereas the own wealth earned through sins will destroy them by making them as beggars. Moreover, even a trace of wealth earned by you will not follow your soul after death and the little justified wealth will take you to heaven and the unjust plenty wealth will take you to hell. In the four worldly goals or puruṣārthas, earning money (dhaneṣaṇā) or artha and sex with legal wife (dāreṣaṇā) or kāma are mentioned without the mention of issues (putreṣaṇā) because both money and issues are always jointly linked worldly bond.]
4) Prayatnaḥ kriyatāṃ nityaṃ, nivṛttyai prathamācyutaḥ ।
Sevā yoga paro nā'ghāt, parā na tyajyatāṃ kvacit ।।
[One shall always try to enter the spiritual life as far as possible putting best ability in efforts. But, at the same time, one shall be careful in seeing that the worldly life or Pravṛtti is not affected in anyway. The reason is that the already existing settled worldly life shall not be disturbed in any way, which means that already existing worldly bonds are not hurt in anyway because hurting the ignorant souls is sin. Either you shall preach those ignorant worldly bonds so that they are also lifted or you shall cheat them to avoid hurting them without damage to your spiritual life. The first of these two paths is called God’s service (because God’s service is to propagate His true spiritual knowledge and you can start that with your family bonds) and the second path is called Yoga (which is cheating the worldly bonds indicated by the curved serpentine path of kuṇḍalinī in crossing cakras or worldly bonds). Only in the case of inevitable last resort, one shall hurt even the family bonds, but, never leave the effort for spiritual journey. Since the goal of Nivṛtti is God, neither cheating nor hurting in inevitable case is a sin.]
5) Sadā gatiśramaiḥ deha—mānasārogya māpnuyāt ।
Vibhūti jñāna tarkeṇa, nāstiko na kvacit bhavet ।।
[One shall always walk and do physical exercises as far as possible. The former will avoid diabetes and the latter will avoid fat and both these are essential to have good physical health. A sound mind can exist in a sound body only. For both pravṛtti and nivṛtti both physical and mental health is very much needed. One shall never become an atheist at any cost at any time in the life and for this purpose, one shall analyse the genuine unimaginable events called miracles, which establish the existence of unimaginable God as their source.]
6) Pravṛttiḥ dakṣiṇā bhānoḥ, nivṛtti ruttarā ca dik ।
Karkāṭake jale hīne, makare grahaṇa sthire ।।
[Pravṛtti or worldly life is the south side and nivṛtti or spiritual life is the north side. The sun enters north side leaving south side by entering Capricorn-zodiac, which is the crocodile that has firm grip. This means that the intellectual knowledge (sun) enters spiritual life (north side) by leaving worldly life (south side) with very firm grip (crocodile). This means that the intellectual knowledge (sun) enters south side (worldly life) leaving north side (spiritual life) by entering the cancer-zodiac, which is very weak in grip (crab). This is the inner meaning of transition of sun (saṅkrānti) from south to north and vice-versa. Both crocodile and crab live in water, which means that you have to implement both these grips while living in this world only. Sun is transiting between North and South altering direction, which means that the soul has to transit between worldly life and spiritual life altering direction in this world, but, the grip in the spiritual life must be very firm grip of crocodile whereas the grip in the worldly life should be with full detachment like the weak grip of crab. Śaṅkara created crocodile while taking bath in the river in the transition of worldly life to spiritual life.]