Page 123 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

other saint went to the extent of saying that all existence is united, he could see even in the pashana the souls, he found they are also an expression of the Divine and then you have got similarities of expression in the vedic period of Isavasyam and all that. Isavasyam idam sarvam, everything is encompassed with the Divine. Yes, we feel that we are dependent and we also feel that He is also dependent upon us. I am as much required by the Divine as He requires me, this is the feeling that we have got and that is the real nature of our self. We have come here as expressions of the Divine knowing full well that we are going to express Him. If God wants to express anything here, He can do it only through us. If all of us were to take to sanyas and then get back to our source, there is nothing for God to express. He will be a barren God. He requires us as much as we require Him and that is the reason why Divinity is prepared to help us. Why Divinity should help us? Why it has been always answering to our prayers? If you put this question, He wants us very much, the Divinity wants us, and there is no other way by which it can express. So this is the condition at the second knot.
Then you come to know, He is not all that dependent upon you as you are on Him, He seems to have alternatives. If you do not fill in the gap, He can find somebody else to fill the gap, but you are not able to do that. In spite of our creating 300 crore Gods, we could not help having one God above all of them or seeing that one God through all these, that’s a much more mature way of putting it. We have got about 360 crores Gods, but each one of them represents only the Ultimate for us and only people in this country can understand that. No other person is capable of comprehending this. We are a set of unique fellows, because of our karma we have got this type of understanding but you come to know that He is not all that dependent upon us and you understand I am more dependent upon Him than He, and that is the beginning of Bhakti.
People who would say that they start sadhana with Bhakti are really talking something off their hat. The stages of progress demands that you should go through these stages, an awareness of transiency of life, of temporariness of life and dependency on God has to come first then only the question of Bhakti. Love develops; Bhakti is another word for that between two persons. You must be aware of the sentences that are said ‘he is devoted to the family’ i.e. he attends to the work of the family with such an amount of devotedness as if, if he does not do it there is