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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
you have got the jnana, karma and bhakti related to the adhyatma aspects but our problem is not that, our problem is entirely different, by nature some of us are godly oriented, by nature some of us are asuric oriented, Asuras are also capable of having bhakti, they have exhibited their capacity for bhakti perhaps much better than than many satvikas, there is something like a daivi bhakti as well as asuri bhakti. Asuri bhakti is for possessiveness, try to get as much as I can out of it. Any person who goes to god and then asks for something, he is almost an asura, Any person who goes to god and says may I be of any service to you is the person who is divine, which one are you, what exactly are you seeking. We can classify ourselves based on the guna trya vibhaga as lord Krishna put it, either as satvik, or Rajasik or tamasik. The satvik way of bhakti is different from the rajasik way of bhaki which is entirely different from the tamasic way of bhakti. Bhakta Kannapa despite all the representations and all the literature that is available is still tamasic bhakti, majority of the people who do karma, yajna, yaga or puja are people who are rajasic, people who
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