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namaskaar,

once i posted this message in my other groups. i felt like posting it

here too. i have described bhakti in my own words mostly based on

narad bhakti sutras. being a beginner, i would welcome comments from

the learned members of this group so that i'd be able to learn

something.

 

bhakti -- the transcendental love .

bhakti is pure love, love free of lust, love free of jealousy, love

free of all desires.

bhakti is the true love, love we all are wishing for, looking for.

no worldly love can ever come near to it.

as it is said in narada bhakti sutras--

bhakti is itself the fruit of spiritual practice.

on achieving this fruit nothing else is needed.as the saadhak is

fully satisfied on getting this

 

to understand bhakti one should be able to differentiate between

worldly love and divine love.the wordly love is based on desire

(kama). in one or other way to have some sensual pleasure or is

related with some self-interests, expectations from the partner.

these expectations are the root cause of dukha(grief). one

expectation not being fulfilled & grief prevails. more are the

expectations, more grief is there.it's just like you jump from 10ft.

you get some wounds but when you jump from 50ft. you may have

fracture or even death.

bhakti is beyond all these feelings. bhakti is desireless without

any self interest. a bhakta ignores the sensual pleasure(nirodha).all

this can be understood by a simple example--

take the case of a guy and a girl in love with each

other. another girl offers herself to the guy. if the guy is in

true love with her girlfriend, he will reject the offer. he will just

wish to be with her girlfriend.

in the same way a bhakta(devotee) who is in love with

the divine will spontaneously reject every sensual pleasure as he

would just wish to be absorbed in Him all the time. any type of

sensual pleasure is just a disturbance for him.this is how the

concept of sanyam(control) is there. like a guy controls his desires

just for the sake of love with his girlfriend, bhakta controls all

his desires for the sake of his Love. every sensual pleasure, every

self-interest, every desire is just a disturbance.

as narada says--

According to Narad ji, being absorbed in That with good intentions,

and becoming anxious when That is forgotten, is bhakti.

bhakta can bear any type of hardships but forgetting his Beloved is

simply unbearable.he just wants to be absorbed in Him all the time,

doing everything just for Him(offering fruits of everything he does

to his Beloved).

love,

gautam.