kāmyāstu yathākāmaṃ samuccīyeranna vā pūrvahetvabhāvāt ..3.3.62..

SUTRA III. 3. 62.

 

काम्यास्तु यथाकामं समुच्चीयेरन्न वा पूर्वहेत्वभावात्॥३.३.६२॥

kāmyāstu yathākāmaṃ samuccīyeranna vā pūrvahetvabhāvāt ..3.3.62..

 

.. Kamyah, aiming at objects of desire, .. Tu, but. …. Yathakamam, according to one’s liking. … Samuchchayeran, may cumulate. Na, not. .. Va, or. … Purva, the former. .. Hetu, reason … Abhavat, on account of the absence of.

 

62. But in the case of Kamya devotion, one may, according to his wish, worship any other deity for the fulfilment of that particular desire, or he may worship even his Ishta deity for getting it. Because there is absence here of the reason which existed in the case of the first. — 423.

 

COMMENTARY

 

In Kamya meditations, where the object to be gained is not the realisation of Brahman but the attainment of fruits, like fame, etc., one is at liberty to worship any form, or one form, from which he can gain his object. That is to say, a worshipper of Nrisimha may worship other forms of the Lord in order to obtain some particular fruit, like fame, etc., or may worship the Nrisimha form itself, even for the purposes of getting Kamya fruits. Why? Because the reason of the last aphorism does not hold good here. As the fruits to be obtained are different here, different forms may be worshipped in order to gain those fruits. So long as there exists a desire to get the particular fruit, all those meditations and Pujas must be performed which are calculated to give that fruit more expeditiously. But if a man has no such desire, he need not perform any other worship, but that of his particular Puja. The sense of the whole is this. A person striving after release, a Mumukshu, must always stick to the worship and meditation of one particular form, but if he is ever in need of getting some lower object, even then also he must ask his God for that object He must never worship any lower deities in order to get any lower object, for Hari can give every object to His worshipper. As says the Smriti:

The wise, broad-minded aspirant after release, must always worship the Highest Person alone, with the intense Yoga of bhakti, whether he desires nothing or desires everything.

Thus has been explained the meditation on the various forms of the Lord, with various Mantras consisting of ten syllables, etc. All Kamya pujas may be performed either optionally or collectively.

Note: See Gopala Purva Tapani for the various Mantras deduced from the 18-syllabled Mantra, Klim Krishnaya Gopijanavallabhaya Svaha. The 10-syllabled Mantra is (Gopijanavallabhaya Svaha. This is the favourite Mantra which Indra recites. The 16syllabled Mantra is Om namah Krishnaya Devakiputraya hum phat svaha, etc.