29 Sep 2021
[Shri Ganesh V asked: Pādanamaskāram Swamiji, You have told that the divine Mother grants boons faster to those who practice Vaamaachaara. Are the boons asked by those devotees’ selfless boons? For example, Gopikas wanted to give their bodies to Lord Krishna for His pleasure and not their pleasure. So Gopikas wanted the boon of spending time with Him. They never wanted anything selfish. If it were devotees who practice Vaamaachaara for wanting selfish boons, then it should be called as Dushpravrutti. Is my understanding correct Swamiji? At Your divine feet, Ganesh V]
Swami Replied:- Vaamaachaara is condemned by scholars because it is the illegitimate love among the devotees (It is dushpravrutti and not even pravrutti, which is certainly not nivrutti.) in the name of love to God. Madhurabhakti, on the other hand is the love (legitimate or illegitimate) between God and devotee. When you take God into picture, it shall be called as Madhurabhakti only and not Vaamaachaara. The same Vaamaachaara between God and devotee becomes Madhurabhakti or sweet devotion. Madhurabhakti comes only in the final birth of the soul after dropping out of all the worldly bonds except the bond with life partner and in the final birth, this last bond also gets dropped resulting in total salvation from all worldly bonds. The final birth is not decided by the devotee, but, is decided by God. In Vaamaachaara, the devotee also reaches to very high state (not climax) in order to get selfish boons.
In Vaamaachaara, the devotee worships God through scoldings with high love! In Madhurabhakti, the devotee does not aspire for any selfish boon because all the worldly bonds are dropped out. In Vaamaachaara, God grants the selfish boons because the devotion is in very high state compared to the normal devotion of Dakshinaachaara. In Madhurabhakti, God Himself requests the devotee to spend some time with Him! The reason is that God is omniscient and knows really existing reality of love of the devotee in sweet devotion shown by the devotee in the final birth as in the case of Gopikas. Even in other bonds, the climax state of devotion is possible as we see the case of devotion of Hanumaan. Sometimes, even other bonds surpass the sweet devotion due to the reality and gravity of devotion. Draupadi loved Krishna as brother whereas the wives of Krishna loved Krishna through sweet devotion. When the finger of Krishna was cut, the wives ran to various sides in order to get a piece of cloth for the bandage. Draupadi immediately tore her valuable sari for a piece of cloth to be used for the bandage. Draupadi surpassed the sweet devotion through her real love to Krishna as sister.
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