Srimadh Bagawatham - Kapilopadesam

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Kapilacharyar instructed His mother Devahuthi. He taught her that we must lose the desires for material items, do Bakthi Yoga desiring to obtain the Lord’s divine feet which will eventually yield Moksha.

Kapilacharya said that in order to do Bakthi Yoga by controlling our senses, we require satva gunam. Everyone has a mixture of the three gunams satva, rajo and tamo gunams. If Rajo gunam is on the rise a person will be passionate, with higher tamo gunam a person will be ignorant and lethargic. To obtain Supreme Knowledge we need satva gunam which can be developed by eating proper food per Ahara Niyamam.

We should then meditate upon the Lord’s Divya Mangala Vigraham with controlled mind and senses. We shouldn’t wish for anything but the Lord and for a chance to serve the Lord with His devotees. We should look only at the Lord’s beautiful form; eyes which enjoy the beauty of other items are like the eyes drawn on peacock feathers. We should listen to the Lord’s glories. Ears used to listen to other things and not to the glories of the Lord are like holes in ant hills. We should use our feet to walk to the Lord’s temple and hands to serve the Lord by making garlands etc. else our feet are useless like tree roots and our hands like that of the hands on a corpse.

By doing Bakthi Yoga, we can surely bring down the karmic balance of punyam and papam. Punyam yields samsaric life as well and results in us wearing golden hand cuffs while papam results in us wearing iron hand cuffs; whether olden or iron handcuffs the end result will be our imprisonment in samsara. The two accounts of papams and punyams do not cancel each other; they have to be extinguished separately. Once the balance is zero, the jeevatma travels through the bright Archiradi Margam, takes a dip in river Viraja and enters Sri Vaikuntham.

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 A jeevatma bound by samsara travels via Dhoomathi Margam which is dark and keeps returning to earth.

We must think about the Lord as our relation. He can fulfill every relationship. During ancient times if a woman lost her son or brother, the king would promise to fulfill the roles of a son or brother but the king could never make a promise to be the woman’s husband; only the Lord can do so and can even act as our spouse.

Kapilacharyar then explained to Devahuthi that our atma is different from our body. These teachings led to the development of the religious philosophy called Samkhya which is based on the difference between body and soul. We say “this is my hand” we do not say that, ‘this is I hand’. Hence subconsiously we know that we are different from our body since we use the possesive case for our body. Even a person suffering from amnesia remebers to say “I” proving that the atma is knowledgeble. Like a car clock which keeps running even when the engine is off, our atma retains knowledge even when our brain loses memory.

We say things like I am a son, I am a brother, I am a father, I am a grandfather; in all the above statements the “I” never changes which represents our atma.

Kapilacharya then taught Devahuthi about the differences between prakruthi and the Purusha, about yoga and very importantly about the places a jeevatma enters in order to suffer.

Jeevatma entered samsara after earning karma. The Upansihads describe about Panchagni Vidhya Prakaranam to list the places a jeevatma enters. Based on the deeds performed on earth, a jeevatma goes to heaven or hell. At Yama Pattinam which is hell, it obtains a body called Yathna Shareeram which is not destroyed even when the jeevatma is beaten to death. 

After completing the term of reward/punishment, the jeevatma falls on top of the clouds. From clouds as rain drops it falls over fields and is absorbed by grains. The jeevatma enters the men and women who eat them and then enters the woman’s womb as a foetus. It then takes birth and proceeds to do deeds for which it is once again rewarded/punished after death and the entire cycle continues. 

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The atma grows as big us a bubble in the womb in a night and as big as the fruit elandapazham (berry) in five nights. At the end of a month it appears as big as an egg. At the end of first month the head appears and limbs by end of second month, hair, bones and flesh develop during the third month, by fifth month it feels hunger and thirst, by sixth is engulfed by placenta and then moves around, it feels all the food eaten by mother via placenta and suffers from heat and acid content of food. By seventh month it pleads with Lord to free it before it takes birth, it remembers every deed it performed in its past lives. It pleads to get Moksham with Perumal. Perumal erases its memory as He wants it to spend its karma. As it takes birth, its head comes out first to show that the jeevatma falls head down. It is engulfed by air called satam which makes it forget its past memory. It only remembers to breathe and eat. The knowledge the atma had is covered by satam.

Hence, performing Bakthi Yoga by meditating upon the Divya Mangala Vigraham of Lord Sriman Narayanan is the only the way to break the above cycle.

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