This world is of two types, the gross world and the subtle world. What is the gross world and what is the subtle world? He (Shree Maharaj Ji) explains,
शब्दाधिक विषयन पदार्थ जे, स्य़ूल रूप तेहि मान ।
Shabdādik viṣhayan padārth je, sthūl roop tehi mān.
He says that ‘the world of sense objects, the sense of sound, taste, touch, smell, etc., is the gross world, the external world, the material world’.
इनकी जो उर बिधुर कामना, ताहि सूक्ष्म अनुमान ।
Inakī jo ur bidhur kāmanā, tāhi sūkshma anumān.
And what is the subtle world? ‘The subtle world is the world of our desires, the powerful desires that reside in our heart for these worldly sense objects, material objects.’ That is what constitutes the subtle world, the inner world.
स्थूल जगत के तजत, जात नहिँ, सूक्ष्म जगत बलवान ।
Sthūl jagat ke tajat, jāt nahiṃ, sūkshma jagat balavān.
पै जो सूक्ष्म जगत को तजि दे, नहिं स्थूलहिँ रह भान ।
Pai jo sūkshma jagat ko taji de, nahiṇ sthūlahiṇ rah bhān.
And ‘if we externally abandon or renounce worldly objects, the sense objects, that will not bring an end to the inner world, the subtle world of our desires’. However, ‘pai jo sūkshma’ (पै जो सूक्ष्म), ‘if one were to abandon the inner world, the subtle world, and renounce the world of our desires somehow, in other words, then the outer world will automatically lose. In other words, we will lose its awareness.’ We will become unaware or unconscious of the gross world, the external world.
And in the last line, Shree Maharaj Ji says,
ताते तजिय ‘कृपालु’कामना, भजिय रैन दिन कान्ह ।
Tāte tajiya ‘Kripalu’ kāmanā, bhajiya rain din kānha.
So what is the solution to abandoning our desires or to renounce these desires, the subtle world or the inner world? ‘That is to practice incessant, continuous devotion to Shyamsundar, to Shri Krishna’.
