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DEVOTION
actually these two concepts are inter linked, unless the goal clarity is there you won’t be singly oriented, unless you are singly oriented you do not get goal clarity, it is a vicious circle we get into for various reasons. Whatever we have here is an emotional devotion to start with till we get into the state of what we have depicted in our chart as guru citta avalambanamu, that is trying to take the consciousness of the master as your own consciousness, here we are at a point in the pind desh where it is all emotional and it is because it is related to the elements to the earth and the water and it is the wood that is being fired, we have not come to the stage of phosphorous being burnt, that stage comes much later, now these are all the abstract concepts, I tried to analyse to the extent that I can about the type of bhakti that we have got, that depends upon two things: what is your goal, what type of man are you, what type of man are you, what is the goal. We can have adyatma bhakti, we can have adi bhoutika bhakti, we can have adi daivika bhakti. When it comes to the atma jnana about which master talks much in Reality at Dawn,
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