Narada Bhakti Sutras - Text, Transliteration, Translation & Commentary /34

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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
 
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<p text="C">Puranas speak of even animals getting the grace of

the Lord. There is the account of Gajendra
 
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<p text="C"><bold>Siddho Bhavati:</bold> The devotee becomes perfect

through God-realisation. His object is attained. All

his desires are gratified by God-realisation. He never

feels the want of anything. He enjoys supreme peace,

eternal and perfect satisfaction and ever-lasting bliss

and so he becomes a siddha.
 
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<p text="C">For a devotee Siddhis or powers are worthless.

He does not care for them. These are nothing when

compared to Divine Love. He rejects even the

position of Indra or Brahma, even Mukti or liberation.

His mind is filled with divine ecstasy. He has realised

the whole.
 
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<p text="C">He has realised the essence and totality of all
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He has attained the source and fountain of all. And

so he is perfect, immortal and thoroughly satisfied.

He cannot be attracted towards external objects.

which are incomplete, imperfect, defective and are

only parts.
 
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<p text="C">A. Siddha is a perfect man. He has reached the

goal. He has attained God-realisation. In common

parlance the word Siddha denotes a man who is en-

dowed with various superhuman powers or Siddhis.

It is not in any such sense the word is used here.

The sign of a perfect man or Siddha is not the pos-

session of miraculous powers but the attainment of

God-realisation or unity with the Supreme Being.
 
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<p text="C" merge-next="true"><bold>Amrito Bhavati:</bold> He who has attained God

realisation becomes immortal. He ever lives in the
 
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