Is doing sadhana bhakti in vatsalya bhava sahajiyaism?

From Raj Parikshit P
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with others Question from Raj Pariksit Prabhu Is the Pushti Margaz and stress on Patsalya Bhakti Sahajyayik answer is not necessary it has to be seen based on the mood of a particular worshipper and more importantly the mood in which a particular instruction is given you see at one level the whole idea that we can worship God as his parent that itself might seem presumptuous how can we put ourselves in the position of a parent of God but if you look at the practical application in terms of the relationship we could say that being a parent means the parent controls the child but then another way of looking at it is also that the parent has to serve the child more than in any other relationship when there are friends the friend can do a lot and the other friend may assist in something even when there is a Madhurya Bhava when people are related with marriage both spouses they can do a lot whereas one spouse may do something more for the other spouse at certain times but the point is when the child is very small then the child can do nothing and everything for the child has to be done by the parent so in Vatsalya in that sense that we see the mood of service and resulting absorption of service with the attitude that I have to do everything for the Lord in one sense when Krishna comes as a deity and the deity is certainly an object of nourishment of worship and respect for us at the same time in many ways the deity is just like a child in the sense the child can’t do anything Krishna in the deity form chooses to be inactive not doing anything and we need to ourselves work for helping doing everything for the deity so if that idea of maximizing one’s service is what is permeating the Vatsalya bhava then it is not at all service-y when that way even in the Dasya bhava also Sajyatva can come up Sajyatva basically means what? that instead of serving the Lord instead of keeping the mood of a servant one takes the Lord very cheaply and approaches one who is in an exalted position and approaches emotions that are very exalted in a premature cheap sort of way so now it may be that some people in Vatsalya bhava do take up the Bhakti cheaply but there are many others who in Vatsalya bhava also have genuine deep devotion and they serve the Lord in the mood of devotion those who are doing like that you have to appreciate their devotion and rather than equating Vatsalya bhava with Sahajiyaism you have to look at the mood with which a person is worshipping if we see in the 10th canto if we leave aside the Vatsalya bhava and if we consider the Madhurya bhava to be too elevated then what remains for us to discuss about Krishna’s pastimes we have essentially then afterwards this Dwarka Leela which is more or less similar to the Mahabharata pastimes mostly Kshatriya pastimes so they of course have certain attraction but the special emotional attraction to the Lord that comes by hearing his Vatsalya pastimes his childhood pastimes especially his interacting with others when he was a child they have a special flavor so yes prematurely approaching Madhurya pastimes is difficult it is somewhat dangerous but then that way if we are going to talk about Sahajiyaism as a possible pitfall Sahajiyaism as a possible pitfall can come with respect to the Vatsalya pastimes also and then we will have nothing to hear about Krishna if we put his Vatsalya pastimes also in that category that oh hearing this might put me in a Vatsalya mood and the Vatsalya mood will make me Sahajiyaic so we have to as sadhakas we have to be careful about checking the Sahajiya tendencies within us and others if they are following a particular mood then within that relation there will be certain safeguards certain checks and balances by which Sahajiyaic mood can be avoided so although there is there is the emphasis on cultivating a spontaneous mood of bhakti in Krishnimarg but even within that there is an adequate emphasis on rules also that especially in the natives to be worshipped it is not that in the name of spontaneous devotion the rules and regulations for worship in the native are neglected so there is there is a sadhaka at an individual level has to be careful that I don’t go into Sahajiya mood and within every sampradaya also the leaders, the founders and subsequent leaders of the sampradaya they devise checks and balances so that people do not go into so that Sahajiyaic mood prematurely but we don’t need to equate worshipping and Vatsalya bhav with Sahajiyaism because that sort of equalization can cut us off from a large part of the bhakti tradition which is very conducive for our bhakti without necessarily making us Sahajiyaic