I and mine don't exist

[Guest guest]

All talk of surrender is like pinching jaggery from the

jaggery image of Lord Ganesa and offering it as

naivedya to the same Lord Ganesa.

 

You say you offer your body, sould and all possessions

to God. Were they yours that you could offer them?

At best, you can only say, 'I falsely imagined till now

that all these which are yours (God's) were mine.

Now I realise they are yours.

I shall no more act as if they are mine.'

 

And this knowledge that there is nothing but God or Self,

that I and mine don't exist and that only the Self exists,

is jnana.

 

Thus there is no difference between bhakti and jnana.

Bhakti is jnana mata or mother of jnana.

 

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Day by Day with Bhagavan, entry 22.11.45

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