Narada Bhakti sutras
Narada is a celestic saint who appears in all epics, puranas and mythological stories of vedic philosophy. Narada is son of Brahma.It is also told that narada was originally son of a washer man but attained nirvana and got the entity of Brahma's son. His main business is to sing the glory of Lord vishnu. He always recites the name of the Lord "Narayana". He moves from one place to another place singing the glory of the supreme lord. He meets many people, demons, kings, demi gods and in this interaction he will be the key factor for a great story to be enacted. All people used to call him as a trouble maker.
The most significant thing is , he is the number one in bhakti, in singing the name of lord with devine music and to help all the spiritual aspirants.He has a musical instrument called Veena and he plays all songs on it.
Significance of Narada
Because of our fortune, we have a sastra, or book written by him millineums back or atleast centuries back. The name of the book is "Narada Bhakti Sutras"( Principles of devotion by Narada). These laws or principles defined by sage Narada are of extreme importance, pithy and well defined. The greatness you can see by going through the principles definition. No extra word is used in a principle definition.Each law is very concise, apt and terse.No one can define in such a way, unless he is the master sage. Each law may have 3 to 8 words only. But the entire law needs 200 lines of explanation, commentary because the concept handed over by that law is such an important one.
By studying these laws, one can have a comprehensive idea what a really devotion means, how a person should develop devotion, what are the hurdles in the devotion path, how to over come.
one blog was found useful to read these laws with commentary at http://narada-bhakti-sutras.blogspot.com by ewraith, UK.
The most significant thing is , he is the number one in bhakti, in singing the name of lord with devine music and to help all the spiritual aspirants.He has a musical instrument called Veena and he plays all songs on it.
Significance of Narada
Because of our fortune, we have a sastra, or book written by him millineums back or atleast centuries back. The name of the book is "Narada Bhakti Sutras"( Principles of devotion by Narada). These laws or principles defined by sage Narada are of extreme importance, pithy and well defined. The greatness you can see by going through the principles definition. No extra word is used in a principle definition.Each law is very concise, apt and terse.No one can define in such a way, unless he is the master sage. Each law may have 3 to 8 words only. But the entire law needs 200 lines of explanation, commentary because the concept handed over by that law is such an important one.
By studying these laws, one can have a comprehensive idea what a really devotion means, how a person should develop devotion, what are the hurdles in the devotion path, how to over come.
one blog was found useful to read these laws with commentary at http://narada-bhakti-sutras.blogspot.com by ewraith, UK.
narada's contribution
We can not treat narada as some imaginary character in epics.In 1850 onwards, one great musician lived in India and his name is Tyagaraj. He became the guru for carnatic music and ragas (tunes).He passed away around 1910 or so. He was a great devotee or Lord Rama. Narada came down for him to teach some esoteric lessons about music and handed over a great celestial book " swara arnavam" to him. After that Tyagaraja became world famous and now entire world treats him as the maestro in music. If some one wants to become a great devotee or a great musician, they can take the help of Narada by worshipping him. How to worship? By just reading his works and longing for him only.
We can not treat narada as some imaginary character in epics.In 1850 onwards, one great musician lived in India and his name is Tyagaraj. He became the guru for carnatic music and ragas (tunes).He passed away around 1910 or so. He was a great devotee or Lord Rama. Narada came down for him to teach some esoteric lessons about music and handed over a great celestial book " swara arnavam" to him. After that Tyagaraja became world famous and now entire world treats him as the maestro in music. If some one wants to become a great devotee or a great musician, they can take the help of Narada by worshipping him. How to worship? By just reading his works and longing for him only.
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