Page 81 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

DEVOTION
All of us have put in enormous years of sadhana. What would you consider the preceding stages to devotion without which you wont understand much of devotion at all. What would be the preceding stages. That the divine is omnipresent everywhere, this awareness has to precede the development of the attitude called devotion, that is what we discussed when we talked about viveka. Not only HE is omni present, we also know that HE is the owner of everything here. There is nothing you own, everything is owned by him. That leads to non- attachment to everything else other than him, that is vairagya, this is another step that precedes devotion. We also understand there seems to be a total interdependency between God and Nature and we are part of nature. One is dependent upon the other. Nature, prakriti and purusha are interdependent, one doesn’t exist without the other. Then there should be a feeling of craving to reach, then only we get devotional attitude, craving
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