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In the spiritual path all your effort must be concentrated in acquiring the

knowledge of God day by day. Once this knowledge based Bhakthi (devotion) is

achieved, your qualities good or bad are immaterial. Whatever may be the vessel,

the drink in it is important. The value paid in a hotel is for the drink only.

If you have taken a cup of coffee, you are paying the cost of the coffee only

whether the cup is made of glass or metal. Similarly, God gives value only for

your Bhakthi and not for your quality. I will give a beautiful example here.

‘Sabari’ is with good qualities and offered fruits to the Lord Rama who is

Vishnu.

 

A hunter called ‘Kannappa’ gave flesh to the Lord Siva. Sabari reached the

‘World of Vishnu and Kannappa reached the World of Shiva’. Both have reached the

same Lord because Veda says, ‘Shiva is Narayana’. Both of them have been given

the similar value by the Lord because in both cases, the intensity of the

devotion is the same as both gave even their food without eating. Therefore,

this proves clearly that the Lord has no objection for your bad qualities.

Hence, all the effort should be only to achieve and increase the intensity of

love devotion or Bhakthi on God. It is not necessary to bother about your

qualities that are inherent coming from millions of births. They are the born

qualities. The tail of the dog is curved. Any effort cannot make it straight. By

force, we can keep it straight but it has not become straight.

 

Similarly you can control your bad qualities for not disturbing peace of the

world by some force. When you come to God, you come in your natural state

because you can deceive the world showing that your banded tail is straight but

not the God. Whether the river comes in straight path or curved path, the ocean

receives only the water with equality. Similarly, God receives your love

irrespective of your quality. He received ‘Sabari’ and ‘Kannappa’ equally.

Sabari with good qualities and Kannappa with bad qualities reached the same

Lord, as their devotion is of same intensity.

 

A piece of gold is wrapped in an old cloth. A stone is wrapped with a metallic

foil. Which has more total value? Similarly, the love with high intensity

covered even by a bad quality has more total value than the love with lesser

intensity covered by a good quality. When the blood flew from the eye of the

Lord, the Priest who is a person with good qualities is trying to apply the

medicine. But, his devotion is less. In the same situation, ‘Kannappa’ plucked

his eyes and donated to the Lord. Kannappa is a person with bad qualities but

his devotion is the highest.

 

Devotion is the highest good quality. Now let us evaluate the total cost of

the priest and Kannappa. The devotion in Kannappa is +100. The bad qualities in

Kannappa are –10. The total cost is +90. The priest with good qualities is +10.

The devotion in him is +20. The total cost is +30. So, of the two who is good?

Obviously it is Kannappa. Gita says, that, ‘Even the worst is best by Bhakthi’

(Api chet….).

 

at lotus feet of swami

surya

 

beirut_ka_baba <no_reply > wrote:

Dear sadhakas,

 

Maharishi Aurobindo has written a beautiful essay on sadhna and

three gunas, which i am reproducing below:

 

Each of the Three gunas working on the Ahankara has its particular

danger for the sadhak who has made the sankalpa of self-surrender,

but has not yet attained to the full accomplishment of the

surrender.

 

 

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