Hanuman Chalisa - Verse 2

Verse 2

Budhi Hin Tanu Janike
Sumirau Pavan Kumar
Bal budhi Vidya dehu mohe
Harahu Kalesa Vikar

Meaning:

Fully aware of the deficiency of my intelligence, I concentrate my attention on Pavan Kumar and humbly ask for strength, intelligence and true knowledge to relieve me of all blemishes, causing pain.

Commentary By Prasanth Jalasutram

In this verse complete surrender to god is recommended.As ramana maharshi says surrender of our mind/ego is really like surrending to god.

We completly surrender to god to gain strength,intelligence which will help us to remove our ignorance and to attain atma-jnana which can ultimately relieve us from this cycle of birth and death.

Verse 468 Of Guru Vachaka Kovai Says,

In ancient days the chaste lady [Draupadi] had her honour saved and her sari lengthened by the Grace of Lord Krishna only when at last, letting go of her own hold on her sari, she lifted up both her hands in complete surrender to Him; and the strong wicked one [Duchasana] who was stripping her fell down abashed.

This incident is pointed out there in order to instruct us that we should give up the sense of doership and should thus surrender to God completely and unreservedly.

As ramana maharshi says,

There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it. One is to enquire whose this destiny is and to discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent. The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realising one’s helplessness

Complete surrender does imply that we should have no desire of our own, that God’s will alone is our will and we have no will of your own.

In Nan-yar Paragraph Thirteen Ramana Maharshi Says,

Being completely absorbed in atma-nishtha [self-abidance, the state of just being as we really are],giving not even the slightest room to the rising of any thought other than atma-chintana selfcontemplation,the 'thought' of our own real self], is giving ourself to God. Even though we place whatever amount of burden upon God, that entire amount he will bear. Since one paramesvara sakti [supreme power of God] is driving all activities [that is, since it is causing and controlling everything that happens in this world], why should we always think, 'it is necessary [for me] to act in this way; it is necessary [for me] to act in that way', instead of being [calm, peaceful and happy] having yielded [ourself together with our entire burden] to that [supreme controlling power]? Though we know that the train is carrying all the burdens, why should we who travel in it suffer by carrying our small luggage on our head instead of leaving it placed on that [train]?


Sources:

1) http://www.hanuman.com/cha.html

2) http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/ramana-maharshi-about-complete.html

3) http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2010/03/ramana-maharshi-about-draupadis-sari.html

4) http://prashantaboutindia.blogspot.com/2009/06/nan-yar-who-am-i-from-original-tamil.html