Rajaji's Introduction

RAJAJI’S(C.Rajagopalachari) INTRODUCTION

“Adi Sankaracharya(and several others like Kabirdas,Tulsidas,Purandaradasa,Annamayya,Thyagaraja..so on) wrote a number of Vedantic works for imparting knowledge of the Self and the Universal Spirit. He also composed a number of hymns to foster Bhakti in the hearts of men.One of these hymns is the famous Bhajagovindam. The way of devotion is not different from the way of knowledge or Jnana. When intelligence matures and lodges securely in the mind, it becomes wisdom. When wisdom is integrated with life, and issues out in action, it becomes Bhakti. Knowledge, when it becomes fully mature, is Bhakti. If it does not get transformed into Bhakti, such knowledge is useless tinsel. To believe that Jnana and Bhakti, knowledge and devotion, are different from each other, is ignorance.

If Shri Adi Sankara himself who drank the ocean of Jnana as easily as one picks water from the
palm of one’s hand, sang in his later years hymns to develop devotion, it is enough to show that
Jnana and Bhakti are one and the same. Sri Sankara has packed into the Bhajagovindam song
the substance of all Vedanta, and set the oneness of Jnana and Bhakti to melodious music.”

Yours devotionally,
LSNBSQUARE-MOTHERINDIA.