Shloka 21
The First Step in God Realization: The Glory of Hearing and the Virāṭ-Rūpa Meditation
यस्यां सन्धार्यमाणायां योगिनो भक्तिलक्षण: । आशु सम्पद्यते योग आश्रयं भद्रमीक्षत: ॥ २१ ॥
yasyāṁ sandhāryamāṇāyāṁ yogino bhakti-lakṣaṇaḥ āśu sampadyate yoga āśrayaṁ bhadram īkṣataḥ
အို မင်းကြီး၊ ဤဓာရဏာ၌ တည်မြဲ၍ အလုံးစုံမင်္ဂလာဖြစ်သော ဘုရားသခင်၏ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေးရုပ်သဏ္ဍာန်ကို မြင်ရှုနေကျ အလေ့အထရှိသော ယောဂီသည် မကြာခင်ပင် ဘက္တိလက္ခဏ ယောဂကို ရရှိကာ ဘုရား၏ တိုက်ရိုက်အာश्रयအောက်၌ နေထိုင်လာသည်။
Success of mystic performances is achieved only by the help of the devotional attitude. Pantheism, or the system of feeling the presence of the Almighty everywhere, is a sort of training of the mind to become accustomed to the devotional conception, and it is this devotional attitude of the mystic that makes possible the successful termination of such mystic attempts. One is not, however, elevated to such a successful status without the tinge of mixture in devotional service. The devotional atmosphere created by pantheistic vision develops into devotional service in later days, and that is the only benefit for the impersonalist. It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (12.5) that the impersonal way of self-realization is more troublesome because it reaches the goal in an indirect way, although the impersonalist also becomes obsessed with the personal feature of the Lord after a long time.
FAQs
This verse says that when the Lord’s form is steadily held in the mind, yoga quickly becomes perfected, and the practitioner’s realization is marked by devotion (bhakti-lakṣaṇa).
Parīkṣit asked how to fix the mind on the Supreme at the time of death; Śukadeva explains that steady meditation on the Lord culminates swiftly in perfected, devotion-filled realization.
Practice daily steady remembrance—through japa, hearing Bhagavatam, and focused meditation on the Lord’s form—so the mind gains stability and devotion naturally deepens.