MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT - SADGURU SAI NATH

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CHAPTER - XIII

BHAKTI, BHAGWAN & BAGAVATS

Bhakti is a real genuine search after the LORD, a search beginning,

continuing and ending in love. Even a single moment of this divine madness

of extreme love for God brings us eternal freedom. Bhakti is intense love

for God. When a devotee gets it he loves all and hates none. He becomes

God-intoxicated and satisfied forever. This love is perennial and cannot be

reduced to any earthly benefit, because so long as worldly desires last,

that kind of love does not come. Bhakti is greater than karma, greater than

Yoga because these are intended for an object or goal in view while Bhakti

is its own friction, its own means and its own end.

Bhakti has been one constant theme of our Sages, Saints and Mystics. The

supreme greatness and efficacy of Bhakti has been expressed, written and

sung by them and all of these have emphasized that one great advantage of

Bhakti is that it is the easiest and the most natural way to reach the great

divine end in view. The singleness of attachment (Nishtha) to a loved

object is the basis for genuine love for God.

The great danger that exists in various stages of Bhakti is fanaticism.

Love for one ideal does not result in hating another ideal. Here, in is the

explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly and steadfastly attached

to his own ideal of God becomes a violent fanatic when he sees or hears

anything of any other ideal.

Herein comes the knowledge for discrimination, Jnana, Three things are

essential to fly to Godhead.

Jnana is one wing, Bhakti is another and yoga is the rudder. All of us

cannot pursue all the three forms of worship together in harmony and

therefore, Bhakti alone is the only easy way for, with intense love for God,

to reach Godhead in a throne’s path where the soul meets God face to face.

In this age of religious wrangles and fanaticism the value of Bhakti cannot

be deprecated. The aim of a true devotee is one, the union of his soul with

God and this is the highest achievement of human consciousness. Our Vedas,

Upanishads, our epics, the Bhagawat Gita, the countless writings and

compositions of our saints, seers and mystics have time and again,

persistently, dinned into our ears the need for Bhakti, punctuated with an

intense love for God.

All Saints are worshippers of the Eternal in one form or another and it is

done with their intense love to God. Many of them are not merely content

with a spark of Divinity alone. Their ultimate goals was emancipation from

suffering of Sansara of rebirth forever and reaches Godhead. The

emancipation they sought not only for themselves but for all people as well.

All the great Saints worked for this goal with a lot of dynamism and

determination carrying this message to one and all.

 

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