Page 540 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
Master also hints that developing love and devotion is the responsibility of the sadhaka.
For me initially it was a matter of letter rather than spirit with regard to the need to develop love and devotion while offering prayer. But how to develop them was a big question to me. With respect to this my experience has been quite unique. Once I started having repeated experience of deep state absorbency during meditations which was almost like non-aware state. When I reported about this experience of being non aware during meditation to my pujya guide, who was kind enough to enlighten me by suggesting that, “it is during the meditations, individual sittings and satsangh we are given with some experience. If we are not alert in a waiting mode we tend to miss it and cannot acknowledge what is given to us. If we do not acknowledge what is blessed to us we will not develop gratitude towards the Master”. It was like a hint to me as one of the ways to develop love and devotion to the Master. So I understand that Gratitude to the Master for the experiences granted by Him during meditations should become the corner stone for us to develop love and devotion.
Initially it was a conscious effort for me but surely this has helped me a lot to become serious in developing this attitude while offering prayer. The importance of this has also been emphasized by the Master elaborately in commandment-2. Prayer when offered with love and devotion establishes a link with the Master. The repeated experiences of nearness and devotedness with the Master help us in firming us and strengthening of our Goal. It is necessary for us to take a comprehensive view of the system right from the beginning otherwise we will be practicing in bits and pieces and that may not give desired results.
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