Bhakti & Divine Love !

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Three main faculties of self viz. Body, Intelligence and Heart

(emotional part of mind), play a vital role in attaining Moksha.

 

Those who are more centred on body take the path of karma Yoga and

attain salvation, those with sharp intellect go for Gyan (Jnana) yoga

and those with heart opt for Bhakti.

 

Most of our intellectual friends, see Bhakti as a lower form of

religious path and normally are away from Bhakti and bhakta both.

They can not be fully blamed for this, as the bhakta in the beginning

do not show higher signs of progress and are normally fanatics about

their deity.

 

But Bhakti when develops into divine love, a Bhakta ceases to be

fanatic and sees his deity in all forms of god. It is easy for any

average brained person to become Gyani by reading some books and

listening to discourses, but it is not possible to be a bhakta by

reading or practicing. Bhakti develops itself from within.

 

Divine love itself takes form of immense love for God and changes a

common girl into Mirabai. This divine love transforms a common weaver

into Kabir, a normal cow-herd boy into Guru Nanak and a helpless

blind in great Bhakta Surdas, a school-dropout into a nobel prize

winner Rabindra Nath Tagore and a shepherd into Great Christ.

 

So those who have received this inner divine love developed, are far

better than a dry intellectual who has read thousands of books on

God. We can with our Samkalpa become gyani or karam yogi or Hathha

yogi, but we can not become a Bhakta by mere samkalpa, because a

Bhakta is the one who is chosen by God himself for his love.

 

In Gyaneshawari Geeta Krishna tells," Though all path equally reach

me, but It is a Bhakta who is really loving to me. I do his Karma, I

feed him, I take him on my shoulders and dance with joy, I show him

my Universe by taking him in my lap. He is away from all sins and all

wraths of nature. a Bhakta lives in me and I live in Him."

 

Kabir has written "Pothhi Pad Pad jag Muaa, Pandit Bhaya na koye----

Dhai Aakhar Prem ke, pade so pandit hoye" those reading thick books,

never become Pandit (learned), only 2 and half words of Love are

sufficient to become a Gyani.

 

Mirabai, Soordas, Tulsidas, Hanuman, Kabir, guru Nanak, christ

Paramhamnsa are some of the bhaktas of our times.we may take their

examples and see how divine love changed their lives.

 

What is Love and what is divine Love ? Is it love which a teenager

expresses, forced by its adulthood harmones ? Is it the feeling of

the mother for her tiny child, forced by the genes? Is it a demand of

our ego forcing us to like an individual for some gains ?

 

The force of Love is so powerful that it has changed history…. It was

love which made Ranjha, prince of Hazara (now in Pakistan) work as a

cowherd boy in his beloveds kingdom.. It was love which forced

Farhaad to dig a river in mountains to get his love….. It was love

which took head of Mirza, the lover of Sahiba…..it was love that made

Gopis of Vrindavana weep for Krishna…. It was love which brought

blessings on the lips of Christ while being crucified. It was love

that made Ravana fight with Rama……It was Love that made Tagore write

Gitanjali….It was love that Vivekananada used his youth and energy on

spreading the message of god…….and it is love that we are discussing

Love here !!!

 

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