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BHAJA GOVINDAM - 30. Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya.

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  ====================================================================================================== Monday 03, Match 2025, 06:30. BHAJA GOVINDAM - 30.  Final Concluding Songs  PART IV – Song 28-31  “How to Plan One’s Liberation”  Song - 30: Take Great Care in Sadhana:  Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya. ==================================================================================== Song - 30: Take Great Care in Sadhana:  1  praanaayaamam pratyaahaaram = The control of all activities, sense withdrawal,  2  nitya- anitya viveka vichaaram; = discrimination between the permanent and the impermanent.  3  jaapya sameta samaadhi vidhaanam = along with Japa and the practice of reaching the total inner silence  4  kurv-avadhaanam mahad avadhaanam. = – these perform with care…. with great care! ================================================================================================= Finally, we come to the two songs...

BHAJA GOVINDAM - 29. Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya.

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  ====================================================================================================== Monday 06, January 2025, 07:30. BHAJA GOVINDAM - 29.  Final Concluding Songs  PART IV – Song 28-31  “How to Plan One’s Liberation”  Song - 29: Wealth is Calamitous  Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya. ===================================================================================== Song - 29: Wealth is Calamitous.  1  artham anartham bhaavaya nityam = “Wealth is calamitous”, thus reflect always.  2 naasti tatah sukhaleshah satyam; = the truth is there is no happiness at all in it.   3 putraad api dhana-bhaajaam bheetih = To the rich, there is fear even from one’s own son.  4  sarvatraisha vihitaa reetih. = This is the way with wealth everywhere. ====================================================================================== 1-2   Artham Anartham:  This is a beautiful poetical device used at the very start....