Devotion
Devotion is adoration. Whom do we adore? The Divine. How do we adore? Through self-surrender.Man loves. He expects love in return. A devotee loves. He loves human beings for the sake of his sweet Lord who abides in all. His love breathes humility, spontaneous joy and selfless service.
A devotee sees a circle, which is God. He enters into it with his soul’s cry. He then silently goes and stands at the centre of the circle and grows into a sea of ecstasy.
A child does not care to know what his mother is. He just wants his mother’s constant presence before him. Similar is the approach that a devotee makes toward his Lord. Many are there to help him in his life’s journey. But he looks to none for help. God’s Grace is his sole refuge. The endless torture of hell is too weak to touch him while he is within God. His life there is a life of perfect bliss. His suffering knows no end in Heaven without God beside him.
Unlike others, a devotee sincerely feels that he has nothing else in his possession save his desire for God. His desire is his jewel. God’s Grace is His Jewel. In offering his jewel to God, the devotee binds God. In giving His Jewel to His devotee, God fulfils him.
Devotion
Devotion
Is the magnet
That pulls us toward the ecstasy-height,
The height that makes us see and feel
What we truly are:
Unmanifested divinity.
Devotion
Devotion in the heart
Is the expansion
Of our Divinity’s real life.
Devotion in our entire life
Is the fastest speed
To reach our destined Goal.
Devotion is the strongest magnet
That pulls us to our Eternity’s source:
Delight.
