From The Sat Darshana Bhashya Continued

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The Sad-Guru

 

P.VI

 

Kapali: What is true devotion (Bhakti)?

 

Maharshi:

 

Whatever I do or consider myself doing is really the Lord's doing. Nothing

really belongs to me. I am here for the service of the Lord. This spirit of

service (Arul uruvam) is really devotion supreme and the true devotee sees the

Supreme being as the Lord immanent in everything. Worship of Him by name and

form leads one beyond all name and form. Devotion complete culminates in

knowledge supreme.

 

Even when Bhakti (devotion) is actuated by worldly desires in the

beginning, it does not cease when the desires are fulfilled. It inceases by an

unshakeable faith growing perfectly into a supreme state of Realisation.

 

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> Sat Darshan Bhashya is a brilliant commentary on the Forty

> Verses on Reality by 'K' Kapali Sastria under the

> supervision of Sri Ganapati Muni. The text was shown to

> Bhagavan and approved by Him.

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> It contain's Kapali's own questions to Ramana, then

> a long introduction to the 40 verses in several chapters,

> followed by the 40 verses themselves, translated in free

> verse form with a commentary. It concludes with a poem by

> Ganapati Muni entitled Forty Verses in Praise of Sri Ramana.

 

 

> This Book has been published by Ramanasramam since 1931

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