Mukunda Mala Stotra 15 – 2: The ultimate nectar that bestows supreme liberation
he lokah shrinuta prasuti-marana-vyadhesh cikitsam imam
yoga-jnah samudaharanti munayo yam yajnavalkyadayah
antar-jyotir ameyam ekam amritam krishnakhyam apiyatam
tat pitam paramaushadham vitanute nirvanam atyantikam
O people, please hear of this treatment for the disease of birth and death! It is the name of Krishna. Recommended by Yajnavalkya and other expert yogis steeped in wisdom, this boundless, eternal inner light is the best medicine, for when drunk it bestows complete and final liberation. Just drink it!
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Shri Harinam Prabhu Ki Jai Mukund Mala Stotra, verse 15, continued, part 2. He Loka Shrunath Prasuti Vyara Maran Vyadhesh Chikitsa Mimam Yogajna Samudaharanti Munayo Yam Yajnaval Kadayaha Antar Jyotirameyam Ekam Amritam Krishnakima Piyataam Tatpitam Paramaushudam Vithanute Nirvana Matyantikam He Loka Shrunath Shri Krishna Maharaj is addressing all the people. Please hear me. Prasuti Marana Vyadhesh Chikitsa Mimam All of you are suffering from the Vyadhi of repeated birth and death.
And here is the Chikitsa, the medicine for that, the therapy for curing that. So, this therapy is not something which is newfangled, which I have come up with. Yogajna Samudaharanti Munayo Yam Yajnaval Kadayaha So, all the great sages who are Yogajna, who know the essence and ultimate purpose of Yoga, like Yajnaval, all these sages, they have recommended this Samudaharanti.
They have recommended it. What is its characteristic? It is a inner light and it is the one nectar. Ekam Amritam Krishna Khyam Aapiyataam It is called as Krishna.
And what is the speciality of this nectar? It is the only nectar which when one drinks it, Tatpitam Paramaushudam Vithanute When one drinks this, one discovers that it is a supreme medicine. So, the superlatives are used twice over here. Paramaushudam and Nirvana Atyantikam So, Paramaushudam is supreme medicine and Nirvana Atyantikam is the ultimate liberation.
So, it is called as the supreme medicine because it cures not only the enjoying mentality, which is the cause of the disease of birth and death, but it also cures the merging mentality. So, the nectar that is so much glorified in the Karmakanda section of the Vedic literature does not actually cure the enjoying mentality. It only provides better facility for enjoyment.
It creates a better physical and mental condition for enjoyment. And it also does not grant immortality. So, actually the Upanishads describe that the Vedic statement that by drinking nectar one can attain immortality, they are exaggerations.
And in the Panchagani Kriya that is described in the Chandogya Upanishad, they describe how the soul actually has to leave Swarga and come back to the world again. So, the immortality which is talked about through the worldly amrita, that is Soma, is just a poetic exaggeration. Whereas, the immortality that is bestowed by the Holy Name is so great that even the best glorification cannot actually describe the glories of the Holy Name fully.
And to give us a glimpse of the unlimited glories of the Holy Name, two superlatives are used over here. So, it is Param Aushadham, it will cure the most damaging of all diseases. So, enjoying mentality, Bhukti Kami is one disease, but even those who become free from that disease, suffer from the disease of Mukti Kami.
They become infected by the disease of wanting to merge in God and that also deprives them of Nirvana Atyantikam. So, the liberation into the Brahman may have its own little bit of happiness in terms of relief from material existence misery and a little bit of the Ananda nature of the soul, but that is insignificant as compared to the happiness of Bhakti. So, the Bhakti Ananda which culminates in Premananda is the freedom from all miseries entirely and it is diving and immersing and delighting in the ocean of devotion.
So, that going from this Bhavasagar to the shore of immortality and beyond that to the ocean of devotion is the trajectory on which the Holy Name sets us to get the ultimate happiness, supreme liberation, life in loving service to Krishna. Shri Harinam Bhrumukhi Jai