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DEVOTION
is not all that easy. There is no point in getting into friction with somebody who is satisfied with tamasic or rajasic worship and saying satvik alone he should accept because his goal is not that. Only when the goal clarity is there then satvik worship is possible. Goal clarity of reaching the ultimate or seeking liberation, if it is there then you become satvik. All other types of goals that you have got, the artharthi, the kamarthi, and dharmarthi, these goals if present, then tamasic or rajasic is bound to be there. There cannot be any satvik thing about it. There is no satvik worship possible in these planes, either you have to resort to flattery or entertainment. Whether God hears music or not that I do not know but if you go to any temple you will see that you will hear only music with the only purpose of making God happy with it. That is the purpose but that is rajasic. We are asking him to play down, asking God himself to come down to a lower plane to accept this.
I am not here to contest the quality of bhakthi of Sabari whatever she had, and whatever Rama accepted, but that is tamasic. Trying to please the Divine with the uchista is definitely not satvik, that it
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