Navdha Bhakti

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Navdha Bhakti (Nine steps to supreme love) from the Tulsi Ramayana

..In Ram Charit Manas also Goswami Tulsi das writes about Navdha Bhakti. In

Aranya Kand Shri Ram tells to Shaburi about this Navdha Bhakti after Doha No.

34 in the line second last.They are Different in their forms and paths.But what

exactly Bhakti means (which I understand) is devoting oneself to god the forms

and paths may be different. :

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RamCharitaManas: -page 52-of the archive.

 

 

 

 

Shri Ram tells to Shaburi ...

 

 

....NOW i TELL YOU THE NINE FORMS OF

 

DEVOTIONS, PLEASE LISTEN ATTENTIVELY

 

AND CHERIS THEM IN YOUR MIND.

 

-THE FIRST IN ORDER IS FELLOWSHIP WITH

 

THE SAINTS,

 

-THE SECOND,IS MARKED BY FONDNESS

 

FOR MY STORIES,

 

-HUMBLE SERVICE OF THE LOTUS FEET OF

 

ONE`S PRECEPTOR IS THE THIRD FORM OF

 

DEVOTION.

 

- WHILE THE FOURTH TYPE OF DEVOTION

 

CONSISTS IN SINGING MY

 

PRAISES WITH A GUILELESS PURPOSE.

 

MUTTERING MY NAME WITH UNWAVERING

 

-FAITH CONSTITUTES THE FIFTH FORM OF

 

ADORATION REVEALED IN THE VEDAS,

 

-THE SIXTH VARIETY CONSISTS IN THE

 

PRACTICE OF SELF-CONTROL

 

AND VIRTUE , DESISTING FROM MANY FOLD

 

ACTIVITIES AND EVER PURSUING THE

 

COURSE OF CONDUCT PRESCRIBED FOR

 

SAINTS.

 

- HE WHO PRACTICES THE SEVENTH TYPE

 

SEES THE WORLD FULL OF ME WITHOUT

 

DISTINCTION AND RECKONS

 

THE SAINTS AS EVEN GREATER THAN

 

MYSELF.

 

- HE WHO CULTIVES THE EIGHTH TYPE OF

 

DEVOTION REMAINS CONTENTED WITH

 

WHATEVER HE GETS AND NEVER THINKS

 

OF DETECTING OTHER`S FAULTS.

 

- THE NINTH FORM OF DEVOTION DEMANDS

 

THAT ONE SHOULD BE

 

GUILELESS AND STRAIGHT IN ONE`S

 

DEALINGS WITH EVERYBODY, AND

 

SHOULD IN HIS HEART CHERISH IMPLICIT

 

FAITH IN ME WITHOUT

 

EITHER EXULTATION OR DEPRESSION....

 

WHOEVER POSSESSES ANYONE OF THIS

 

FORMS OF DEVOTION BE HE MAN OR

 

WOMAN OR ANY OTHER CREATURE-

 

SENTIENT OR INSENTIENT, IS MOST DEAR

 

TO ME ....

 

 

 

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