kena mダrgena bho svダmin dehī brahmamayo bhavet | tvam k条pダm kuru me svダmin namダmi caranau tava || 15 ||

15. O Svダmi (my Dear Lord)! By consciously walking on and living which path can an embodied being become Brahmamaya—complete, united into the Brahman, the Absolute Reality? Kindly be graceful to me, Svダmi. I bow down and worship Your feet.

(Puruṣa Sukta says— pダdosya visva bhutani —the whole Universe is but one foot of the Lord'. So by worshipping the lotus feet of the Lord or Guru, you worship the entire humanity.)

Devi asks, "Oh Shiva, what is your reality? What is this wonder-filled universe? What constitutes the seed? Who centers the universal wheel? What is this life beyond form, pervading forms? How may we enter it fully beyond space and time, names and descriptions? May my doubts be cleared."

Beautifully she expresses her whole state of mind through these few words. The last words,beautiful words "Let my doubts be cleared". She never says please answer my questions. If she had made that mistake "answer my question", she would have produced one more Gita,not more than that. Just because she said let my doubts be cleared, she very clearly proved she doesn't want answers, she wants solutions. If you say let my questions be answered, you want only intellectual answers. But here she says let my doubts be cleared, whether you give words or energy or technique, I don't bother, but let me be free from doubts.

When question becomes quest, you start speaking in this language. When urge becomes urgent, you start speaking in this language. There are many kinds of seekers, window shoppers. There's a thing called window shopping, just walking along the street and seeing what's there. There are many seekers who are just window shoppers, they go from master to master. Actually going from master to master is not wrong, it's perfectly alright. But not learning from anybody is wrong. I again and again and tell people, go to all the gardens, but pluck flowers and make a beautiful bouquet. But usually what we do? We don't pluck flowers from any garden, that's where the problem starts. There are a lot of people who are just window shoppers. They go aroundś they don't do anything. They just act as if they're seekers. Above all, they just want to satisfy themselves that they are seekers. This is just hypocrisy.

Devi starts with beautiful words –

"Let my doubts be cleared."

This shows a deep surrenderfulness of Devi. Deep, passive,waiting, without knowing what is going to happen is passive surrender. That is what I call total surrender. Actually, the moment you decide "I'll wait forever", simply things start happening. As long as you're in a hurry, you're agitated, you stop things from happening in you. It's like you try your best for the lotus to blossom. What will you do? You open the petals by hand. Will it be a flower? It'll never be a lotus flower. Lotus flower can be called a lotus flower only when it blossoms by itself. Give a little space. The moment you decide to wait, simply things start happening, you don't have to wait anymore. You have to wait till you decide to wait. The moment you decide to wait, you don't have to wait anymore.