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DEVOTION
then I think, you can understand your meditations much better.
When you are in meditation and you get enormous number of thoughts, uncontrollable as it were related to various fields, related to these four goals only, either the artha, the kama or the dharma or the moksha. All the four are there. All the four are interplaying in the same meditation. One after the other they come, which attitude helps you, which attitude with the Divine helps you then? Which is the devotion you should practice? Out of the nine which one will you do? Nothing will work, all the nine aspects of devotion based on Narada bhakti sutras will not help. What helps? An absolute surrender is what we have to have, yielding to the Divine to whatever he wants and that is how the transition happens from Bhakti to Surrender. All these aspects of devotion are there, inspite of it we are not able to move forward. These three goals are there, moksha is what I want, these three things are pestering me. For various reasons they are pestering me, I have a clear goal clarity, I want to go only to the ultimate, I want liberation still these things are there, what shall
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