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BHAKTI THE BEST MEANS.
203
sakti love of God as that of a child;
कान्ता सक्ति :
Kaantaasakti: Love of God as that of a wife; -
वेदनासाक्ति :
Aatmanivedanaasakti: love of self-sur-
render; तन्मयासक्ति : Tanmayaasakti: love of com-
plete absorption in Him; परमविर हा सक्ति : Para-
mavirahaasakti love of the pain of separation from
Him; रूपा : Rupa in the form:
एका दशधा :
Ekaadasadha of eleven forms; Bhavati: becomes.
First of all the devotee serves the Lord as a
servant serves his master. Then he approaches Him
nearer and behaves towards Him as a friend does
towards a friend. The relationship is then felt to be
more closely personal. Therefore, the devotee rises
higher and manifests parental affection for the Loved
one, as a father to his son. Lastly the little remaining
remoteness between them disappears altogether. The
two become one in spirit. The devotee develops all
the marks of a beloved wife's love for her beloved
husband. In Atmanivedan or complete self-surrender,
there is complete self-absorption. He feels the living
presence of God anywhere and everywhere and per-
manently loses himself in the Lord.
You can know you love the Lord when you feel
you cannot live without Him.
The purpose of the life of a devotee is to lose all
sense of distinctive personality and be dissolved in
the Lord like camphor in the fire.
'
Narada and Vyasa, Sukadeva, Kakabhusundi,
Sesha, Suta, Saunaka, Sandilya, Bhishma, Prithu,
BHAKTI THE BEST MEANS.
203
sakti love of God as that of a child;
कान्ता सक्ति :
Kaantaasakti: Love of God as that of a wife; -
वेदनासाक्ति :
Aatmanivedanaasakti: love of self-sur-
render; तन्मयासक्ति : Tanmayaasakti: love of com-
plete absorption in Him; परमविर हा सक्ति : Para-
mavirahaasakti love of the pain of separation from
Him; रूपा : Rupa in the form:
एका दशधा :
Ekaadasadha of eleven forms; Bhavati: becomes.
First of all the devotee serves the Lord as a
servant serves his master. Then he approaches Him
nearer and behaves towards Him as a friend does
towards a friend. The relationship is then felt to be
more closely personal. Therefore, the devotee rises
higher and manifests parental affection for the Loved
one, as a father to his son. Lastly the little remaining
remoteness between them disappears altogether. The
two become one in spirit. The devotee develops all
the marks of a beloved wife's love for her beloved
husband. In Atmanivedan or complete self-surrender,
there is complete self-absorption. He feels the living
presence of God anywhere and everywhere and per-
manently loses himself in the Lord.
You can know you love the Lord when you feel
you cannot live without Him.
The purpose of the life of a devotee is to lose all
sense of distinctive personality and be dissolved in
the Lord like camphor in the fire.
'
Narada and Vyasa, Sukadeva, Kakabhusundi,
Sesha, Suta, Saunaka, Sandilya, Bhishma, Prithu,