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cannot abolish our separate ness and sin. And as long as we have the feeling that we are
separate selves we are not saved. It is only by fleeing to and taking refuge in God kith
love and devotion that we can leave our separate selves behind. The process is called
Bhakti and bhakti is like poetry in that it brings order and. beauty into the con fused
and tangled facts of our lives. The author of the Narada Sutras defines bhakti as an
intense love of God and says:- "A man who loves God has no wants nor sorrows. He has neither hates nor joys, nor strives with zeal for any ends of his own. For through bhakti is he moved to rapture, and through bhakti does he attain peace and is ever happy In spirit." Again, he says: - "Love a God is ineffable. It is as if a dumb man had tasted a delicious food and could not speak about it. It could be revealed only to the chosen few. For it is an experience pure and selfless, subtle, unbroken and ever expanding. A man. who has once experienced love will see that alone, hear that alone and speak of that alone, for he ever thinks of that alone." Bhakti is man's love of God. And the response of God to man's feeling is called Prasada or grace. All Hindu saints teach us that, as sure as day follows night, grace follows the cry of faith. |
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