Enhance Your Eligibility

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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

Here is today's saying:

 

". . . If the Guru becomes compassionate about you, He will show you some path.

For the Guru to show you compassion, you must first become eligible . . . the

Guru will show you either the path of Upaasana(spiritual practice) or Daasya

Bhakti (path of surrender and devotion)

 

.. . . One can enhance one’s eligibility. The previous step to the path of

Upasana is Nama Sankeertana. The step preceding the path of surrender/devotion

is listening to discourses on mythological scriptures and serving the devotees.

To do this, one does not require a formal initiation. Anyone can do this. You

must develop a natural interest in these. Once you become interested and begin

to make conscious effort to enhance that interest, you will get the eligibility

of becoming a disciple. When you get the qualification, you, (who used to serve

the devotees) will automatically become eligible to serve the Guru. If you were

hitherto engaged in Nama Sankeertana, you will become eligible to step into the

path of Upasana. Either way, you will rise from the level of a devotee to become

a disciple. This is the way of satisfying a Guru and becoming His disciple."

 

Sri Swamiji

Bhakti Mala, Feb. 2001

http://www.dattapeetham.com/india/bhaktimala/feb2001/sooktifeb2001.html

 

Sri Guru Datta,

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