Bhakti means love of God

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When tomorrow will be a fact, yesterday will become a fiction. Such is the game

of illusion that facts become fiction, and fiction becomes fact. With physical

death, the fact of life ends for most of us, where as, the fiction continues for

some generations. The entire endeavour of the spiritual seekers is to be in a

continuous state of fact (truth and dharma) and get redeemed from the fictions

(illusion or maya). But, we think before we begin the Guru Poornimar whether we

are putting in adequate effort for getting rid of fictions, illusions.

 

Experiences show that intellectual endeavours, howsoever potent and mighty they

may seem, have not catapulted or thrown or raised any human being to spiritual

heights. History shows that the highest spiritual masters are those who were

uneducated in formal sense. For example Ramakrishna Parmahans, Sri Shirdi Sai,

Namdeva, Tukaram, Paltu Maharaj etc. It obviously means that there is something

self-limited in the intellectualism, in the path of spiritual progress. All that

the spiritual masters learnt in their life and spread among others is

‘bhakti’ or devotion. ……“When tomorrow will be a fact, yesterday will

become a fiction. Such is the game of illusion that facts become fiction, and

fiction becomes fact. With physical death, the fact of life ends for most of us,

where as, the fiction continues for some generations. The entire endeavour of

the spiritual seekers is to be in a continuous state of fact (truth and dharma)

and get redeemed from the fictions (illusion or maya). But, we think before we

begin the New Year whether we are putting in adequate effort for getting rid of

fictions, illusions.

 

Experiences show that intellectual endeavours, howsoever potent and mighty they

may seem, have not catapulted or thrown or raised any human being to spiritual

heights. History shows that the highest spiritual masters are those who were

uneducated in formal sense. For example Ramakrishna Parmahans, Sri Shirdi Sai,

Namdeva, Tukaram, Paltu Maharaj etc. It obviously means that there is something

self-limited in the intellectualism, in the path of spiritual progress. All that

the spiritual masters learnt in their life and spread among others is ˜bhakti™

or devotion. ˜Bhakti™ means love of God. Since God is not sitting on a throne

like an individual, therefore, how to love Him. The answer is that God is in

everyone, and if one has the capacity to love others, he is doing real bhakti.

Even doing all the worship, yoga, pranayaam or breath control etc. for one's own

improvement is not ˜bhakti™. It is an activity for fulfilling spiritual/occult

ambition like any other ambition.

 

God is not sitting on a throne like an individual, therefore, how to love Him.

The answer is that God is in everyone, and if one has the capacity to love

others, he is doing real bhakti. Even doing all the worship, yoga, pranayaam or

breath control etc. for one's own improvement is not ˜bhakti™. It is an activity

for fulfilling spiritual/occult ambition like any other ambition.