||ShriHari||
May 6, 2018, Sunday
Jesht Krishna Shashti, Ravivaar, Vikram Samvat 2075
A Prayer – It is Only You my Lord
Oh Lord! Now, you will have to shower your grace on me. Whether I am bad or good or however I am, I am Your child only. Leaving You, where else can I go? Who should I talk to? Who will listen to me? This world is a jungle. Talking to the world, is like crying helplessly in the forest. Besides you, there is no one else that will listen. Oh Lord ! Who will I tell? Who will feel any compassion towards me? If I had good qualities, than may be someone may listen. Who will listen to a sinner, one without any good qualities? Who will keep me with them?
Oh Lord! my Govind, my Gopal ! It is only You, that keeps the cows and the bulls next to You, you give them pasture (charaa). I am just like the bull! entirely untamed creature! Only you can fill that role. Who else is there that has the courage to accept me? Who has such strength ? What happiness or gratification can I provide to someone ? Also, by taking me in, what will they do? What will they gain from me after giving me food, shelter, clothes, money etc. ? Who will take care of such a worthless one? If there were some good qualities or characteristics, then they may take me in. It is due to your compassion, that somehow I get by, otherwise who would care?
Oh Lord, even on acquiring a little qualification, I become arrogant. The talent is so very little, but I begin to believe that I am great, I am capable, I am a special devotee, I am an orator of your teachings, I am so very clever, I am so smart, I am intelligent, I am a renunciate (tyaagi), I am detached. Oh Lord ! I am filled with pride. I have heard that you dislike the proud ones and you love those that are humble. Since you do not like pride, remove it, take it away from me.
The mother herself will have to cleanse the child playing in the dirt, eager to climb into her lap. Who else would do so? Will the mother only when the child in her lap after he bathes ? Lord, who will cleanse me off these impurities ? If you do not like these impurities, then O’ Lord, You only will have to take it upon yourself to cleanse me.
Oh Lord (He Naath), You are everything to me. Besides you, who else is there? Who will take someone like me and give a hug? Therefore, Oh Lord, knowing me to be yours, have mercy on me. Only do this out of your compassion, my Lord.
From “Bhagwaan aaj hi mil sakte hai” by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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