Narada Bhakti Sutras

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How to Develop Bhakti

 

Sutra 34:

 

Tasya sadhanani gayanti acharyaha.

 

The teachers have sung (as follows) about the means (for the culture)

of devotion.

 

Sutra 35:

 

Tattu vishaya tyagat sangatyagaccha.

 

Devotion to God is attained by abandoning all sensual pleasures and

all attachment to sensual objects.

 

Sutra 36:

 

Avyavrita bhajanat

 

By uninterrupted worship (success is attained in the practice of devotion)

 

Sutra 37:

 

Lkepi bhagavat guna srvana kirtanat.

 

(Bhakti develops) from listening to and singing of the attributes and glories of

the Lord, even while engaged in the ordinary activities of life int he world.

 

Sutra 38:

 

Mukhyatastu mahatkripayaiva bhagavatkripaleshadva.

 

But it (devotion) is obtained chiefly by the grace of great men or through a

slight measure of divine grace.

 

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