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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
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<p text="C">His grace on the devotees, as soon as He finds out
that they are sincere and earnest. Success is sure in
this path. Bhakti Marga is the easiest, safest, surest
and quickest way for attaining highest bliss or God-
realisation. That is the reason why Narada Rishi
says,
says, "Bhakti is greater than Karma, Gyana and
Yoga."</p>
<p text="Bhakti is greater than Karma, Gyana and
Yoga.C"
">"Those who mount dizzy heights by austere
practices fancying themselves liberated but being
really unenlightened, because lacking in devotion to
Thee, O Lotus-eyed One! fall into a chasm not having
loved Thy feet. Never so, however, Thy own, O
Madhava, stray away from the path, being tied to
Thee by bonds of affection and guarded by Thee, they
walk fearlessly in the spiritual path.
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<p text="M">फलरूपत्वात् ॥ २६ ॥
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<ignore>Sutra 26. Phalarupatwat.
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<p text="T">Because of its being of the nature of the result
or fruit of all these.
</p>
<p text="G">फलरूपत्वात् :
Phalarupatwat: because of its
being of the nature of the result or fruit of all these.
</p>
<p text="C">Devotion is not a means to an end. It is both a
means as well as an end. It is the end or culmination
of all Sadhanas or disciplines. The hidden God is
made manifest through devotion. Then man realises
his own divine nature.
</p>
<p text="C" merge-next="true">Various disciplines such as practice of Yoga, reli-
gious rites, self-control, vows of various kinds, service
of one's teacher, cultivation of divine virtues are
of one's teacher, cultivation of divine virtues are</p>
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<ignore>92
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
<p text="C">His grace on the devotees, as soon as He finds out
that they are sincere and earnest. Success is sure in
this path. Bhakti Marga is the easiest, safest, surest
and quickest way for attaining highest bliss or God-
realisation. That is the reason why Narada Rishi
says,
says, "Bhakti is greater than Karma, Gyana and
Yoga."</p>
<p text="
Yoga.
"
practices fancying themselves liberated but being
really unenlightened, because lacking in devotion to
Thee, O Lotus-eyed One! fall into a chasm not having
loved Thy feet. Never so, however, Thy own, O
Madhava, stray away from the path, being tied to
Thee by bonds of affection and guarded by Thee, they
walk fearlessly in the spiritual path.
<p text="M">फलरूपत्वात् ॥ २६ ॥
<ignore>Sutra 26. Phalarupatwat.
<p text="T">Because of its being of the nature of the result
or fruit of all these.
<p text="G">फलरूपत्वात् :
being of the nature of the result or fruit of all these.
<p text="C">Devotion is not a means to an end. It is both a
means as well as an end. It is the end or culmination
of all Sadhanas or disciplines. The hidden God is
made manifest through devotion. Then man realises
his own divine nature.
<p text="C" merge-next="true">Various disciplines such as practice of Yoga, reli-
gious rites, self-control, vows of various kinds, service
of one's teacher, cultivation of divine virtues are
of one's teacher, cultivation of divine virtues are</p>
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