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of the Nirapeksha Bhaktas

In the preceding Sutras it has been mentioned that the Nirapekshas are superior to other devotees, because they are constantly devoted to Hari and have no desire for the joys of heaven, even though that heaven may be the highest heaven of Brahma. Now the author describes that these Nirapekshas have not only no desire for heavenly joys, but that they have no anxieties for their wordly wants, etc.

In the Taittiriya Aranyaka, (III., 14. 1), we find the Lord described as the purveyor of His devotees.

Being the supporter (of all) He specially supports His devotees who worship Him with love. He, the one God, exists in manifold forms.

Doubt: Here arises the doubt: Are the wordly wants of the Nirapeksha devotees supplied by the self-exertion of the devotees themselves or by the Lord Himself?

Purvapaksha: The opponent maintains the view that the devotees must supply their wordly wants by self-exertion, because they love their Lord so much that they do not wish to put Him to the trouble of exerting to supply their wants.

Siddhanta: The next Sutra shows that the Lord Himself supplies the wants of His Nirapeksha devotees.

SUTRA III. 4. 44.

स्वामिनः श्रुतेरित्यात्रेयः॥३.४.४४॥

svāminaḥ śruterityātreyaḥ ..3.4.44..

…Svaminah, from the Lord. … Phala, about the fruit, … Shruteh, because of hearing, … Iti, so. … Atreyah, Atreya holds.

44. From the Lord come all supplies of the wants of the Nirapeksha devotees, because of the Shruti texts about fruit quoted above. This is the opinion of Dattatreya. — 473.

COMMENTARY

The bodily and worldly wants of the Nirapekshas are fulfilled by the Supreme Lord Himself. Why do we say so? Because of the Shruti texts — «Bhartasan bhriyamano bibharti» — being the supporter of all, He supports His devotees who worship Him with love. Because the text calls him Bharta» or supplier, Dattatreya is of opinion that the Lord supplies all wants. We find this in the Gita also (IX., 22):

I purvey all objects of worldly livelihood and their preservation for those Bhaktas of Mine who are always thinking of Me and who worship Me alone, thinking of no other.

So also in the Padma Purana, it is said:

O lotus-born Brahma, I maintain ray children (devotees) as the birds, tortoises and fish nourish their young ones, by looking after them, by thinking of them and by touching them, respectively.

Note: The fishes nourish their young by looking after them. The tortoises do so by thinking on their young ones and the birds actually teed their young ones by physical contact. The Lord nourishes His devotees by all these threefold processes.

To say that the devotees do not wish to put their Lord to the trouble of supplying their trivial worldly wants is a wrong conception of the relation between the Lord and His devotees. The devotees never entertain any such notion as «May the Lord Hari nourish us by supplying our worldly wants». So they cannot be said to put the Lord to trouble. Moreover, the Lord being Satyasankalpa, true-willed one, His very thought supplies all the wants of His devotees; and so it is no exertion to Him to supply the wants of His devotees. The fruit described in the Shrutis consists in getting all one’s wants supplied by merely worshipping the Lord, without praying Him to supply such wants (without asking Him, «Give us this day our daily bread»). In fact, the Shruti says «Bhriyamana», by being worshipped, He supplies. It does not say «by being prayed to He supplies», for the maxim is «Worship the Lord and ask for nothing, and you will have everything».

The author in the next Sutra shows by an illustration the invariable nature of the Lord’s providence and purveyership in regard to these Nirapeksha devotees.

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