DEVOTION IS PATH OF SURRENDER
“हर किसी को सौदा-ए-सर नहीं मिलता
जिसे सौदा मिलता है उसे सर नहीं मिलता
और हमने हर राह से गुजर कर देख लिया
कि वह किसी राह से गुजर नहीं मिलता”
पर चलना हम सब की विवशता है तो क्यों ना फिर उसकी ओर ही चला जाए
लेकिन आपके थकने से पहले वह आपके पास आ जाएगा, इस बात का निश्चय मानना
“ONE CANNOT GET BOTH THIS WORLD AS WELL AS HIM (LORD)
AND ONE WHO GETS THIS WORLD CANNOT GET HIM
AND I HAVE BEEN THROUGH VARIOUS PHYSICAL PATHS (LIKE KARMA, GYAN,I.E., ALL PHYSICAL LABOUR PATHS)
HE IS NOT OBTAINABLE ON ANY OF THESE PATHS”
IMPLIED MEANING IS THAT HE IS OBTAINABLE ONLY THROUGH BHAKTI MARG (LOVING DEVOTION)
ALL OF US HAVE TO BE DOING SOME ACTION ALL THE TIME ,I.E., WE’VE TO WALK IN SOME DIRECTION ALL THE TIME, SO WHY NOT TO WALK IN HIS DIRECTION (LOVING DEVOTION), AS SUGGESTED BY HE, HIMSELF IN GITA :
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज
अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुच:
"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."
(Gita Shloka 18.66)
https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/18/66/
DEVOTION IS PATH OF SURRENDER – LORD SAYS “LEAVING ALL RELIGIONS, SURRENDER TO ME ALONE”
REST ASSURED THAT BEFORE YOU TIRE OUT ON THIS PATH (भक्ति, LOVING DEVOTION), HE WOULD COME TO YOU
Those who are fruitive laborers and philosophical speculators from time immemorial are constantly going and coming. Actually they do not attain ultimate salvation, for they do not surrender to Kṛṣṇa.
https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/8/26/
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Following extract from Sri Sathya Sai :
The greatest obstacle on the path of surrender is egoism and mineness or possessiveness. It is something that has been inherent in your personality since ages, sending its tentacles deeper and deeper with the experience of every succeeding life. It can be removed only by the twin detergents of discrimination and renunciation. Devotion is the water to wash away this dirt of ages and the soap of repetition of God’s name, meditation, and communion (yoga) will help to remove it quicker and more effectively. The slow and the steady will surely win this race But even the first step will be unsteady if you have no faith. So cultivate faith Do not waver or doubt when once you are convinced. Seek to understand and satisfy yourself. After that, do not be misled. When the sun is over your head there will be no shadow; similarly when faith is steady in your head it should not cast any shadow of doubt. Keep the faith in the Lord undiminished; you can then safely move about in the world. No harm can come to you!
There is no Veda or Sastra (scripture) superior to devotion.Divine love encompasses all sacred acts.
Dedication of all activity to God and surrendering to His Will is called Bhakti Marga (path of devotion). Bhakti has to be built on conviction, not on blind unreasoning belief. That‘s why I always emphasise the role of intelligence.
Intelligence is a special gift from God to man; it confers the power of discrimination between right and wrong. Peace or happiness depends on the choice of the right means and this is a matter to be decided by intelligence.
Prosperity too depends on the intelligent exploitation of resources available, human and other. The wavering 'intelligence' of man, that has lost its one-pointedness and purity is responsible for all the conflicts and quarrels that are prevalent today. So, I ask you to pray to God to grant you the capacity to think straight and right, and to stick to the correct decision once decided on, without being affected by egoism, greed or hatred. Pray for a balanced mind unaffected by prejudices and passions.
- Divine Discourse, Mar 17, 1973.
Offer Him the fragrant leaf of devotion, and the flowers of your emotions and impulses freed from pests of lust, anger, etc.
Once you decide that the orchard in your mind is His, all fruits will be sweet; your attitude of surrender will render all fruits acceptable to the Lord, then how can they be bitter?
