Guest guest Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 5. Therefore, they know brahma satyam jaganmithya; they know everything is svapnavat (like a dream); they know all this will pass away. And they are constantly in this awareness. It is not only an intellectual knowledge, a fact of information that they have gleaned from bookes or lectures, but a fact that they have experienced, known directly. This is the jnani's secret of being perfectly established. And in the case of the bhakta, the devotee of the Lord, long ago he decided, even before entering into this life spiritual, that God is the only thing worth living for. God is the one and the only thing that has any real value. In the estimation of the bhakta, God alone counts, God alone matters. All other things are just alpa (insignificant), they are nothing, theya re equal to zero. God is the one and only supreme One, the Reality. Therefore, they are concerned only with God. They know that all other things are of no importance. No matter what happens, it does not matter. God alone matters. All other matters do not matter. Everything is cipher, nothing, compared to God. And therefore the entire sense of values of a devotee of the Lord, a bhakta, is God and God alone. He alone matters. He alone is important. all other things -- no matter, " How they are, let them be, let them be. Waht do I care, what do I care? " Contd.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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