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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
When we keep in view spiritual elevation as the thing to be prayed for, the prayers for any selfish fulfillment of desires or wishes loses all meaning. Then Prayer is not asking for what we think we want, but asking to be changed in ways we cannot imagine. The spiritual elevation that we seek for then does not bind us to any person or group of persons or home or homes and it becomes the doorway for growing into our true nature. Our sustenance then is not in the company or home with which our petty self is worried but we find our true sustenance in service, and through it we reach the eternal Brahman. But those who do not seek to serve are without a home in this world and here after, even as the Lord stated in the Bhagavad Gita (4:31) It is real devotion to serve; in fact there is no other way to express our devotion to the Spirit-in-action. All poetry and songs are but different forms of flattery and we have found an excellent method of justifying such a flattery by saying the Spirit-in-action or Master loves flattery. The Lord Krishna said that by loving Him one comes to know Him truly; then such a one knows His glory
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