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CLARIFICATIONS
does not get it unless one deserves it. This is to be done through an effort to develop devotion. As the Master puts it “Our primary motive is to develop devotion and for that service is only a means. We serve in the real sense only when our motive is sincere and honest. It carries with it a sense of DUTY as well as of LOVE, both being INSEPERABLE from, each other." One in the path also understands that Devotion is a consequence of the Atma swaroopa jnana and is not something one has from the beginning as it is assumed with the recitation of slokas and mantras, poems etc.
Kartrtva Bhavana is the root cause for the formation of all samskaras and all bondages. Unless this is got rid off at every level the question of going beyond the chains of bondages of various categories already mentioned above does not arise.
Gloominess and Dejection
A) Please note that gloominess is not good for
spiritual life. As a matter of fact the feeling of 329