THE SPIRITUAL PATH

If we are always busy with good deeds, evil will not come near us.  In the very process of doing good deeds, the evil automatically vanishes from our mind. Doing good deeds keeps us constantly thinking of God and thereby we earn His grace all the more. Singing of God Varadaraaja of Kaanchi, Sri Appayya Deekshitar, the philosopher-devotee said: 

'There may be other poets, O Lord!  Who can compose verses in thy name very quickly. I am a slow poet.  But my good fortune is greater than theirs.  For, while I struggle to versify, my mind lingers for a longer time on the features of thy resplendent Person'. 

So the first stage in the spiritual ladder is the due performance of the obligatory duties prescribed in the saastras.  This should be done not with it view to enjoy the 'fruits of those actions:  but purely from a sense of duty and in it spirit of dedication to God.   This' karmaanushtaanam gives 'mental purity and also makes one eligible for God's grace.  The loyal fulfillment of one's own individual Dharma ' is true praise and true worship of the Lord.

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