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Bodhayanti Parasparam – Vol 10
 would be uncertain”. This is very profound message. A life span is not likely to go beyond perhaps a 100, though many doctors may differ from me and then say for eternity we will see that you live perhaps with an ailing body in a nursing home being attended to by all sorts of attendents, who will be either cursingly or blessingly attend to us. There is something like vardhakya, there is some thing like getting old, you should accept that, that is the natural path. Don’t deny the old age, accept it as a blessing of the divine which helps you to think about the divine. That apart ‘Life would be uncertain’ therefore what? So yoga should be completed before that. So don’t struggle to move on waiting for the day of yoga. I will give you now instantly that is what Sri Ramchandra says.
Here in the first part of it ‘Lord Krishna had originally introduced bhakti in Raja Yoga’ what is the bhakti that we are talking about in the Rajayoga ? It is not the bhajan, it is not the kirtan, it is not the dance and drama, it is not the songs. That is the bhakti that others know and that is the bhakti which grants sensory and sensual enjoyments. The bhakti that yogis know is that of constant rememberance. Constant remembrance is not a part of asthanga Yoga. Krishna brought it, remember me. That is why he says Matchitta Matgata Pranah - remember me. That is yoga, that is bhakti. Bhakti is not a few slokas being recited in the morning, afternoon and night. Incidentally bhakti is also not a ritualistic practices as many of our abhyasis do. I get up in the morning Sir, I sit in evening sir, I go to bed with His feeling. That is not bhakti,
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