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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
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<p text="C">of vision? A day will come to you also. Exert,
Struggle.
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<p text="C"><bold>Na Utsaahi Bhavati:</bold> A devotee does not work
to promote his own self-interest but works for the
good of all without any sense of ego or of any feeling
of external compulsion, in a spirit of service to God.
As he is not prompted by ego, as he does not wish
for fruits, his actions are no actions at all.
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<p text="C">He does not work for his personal pleasure and
profit. He has no enthusiasm for selfish or worldly
pursuits. He is not affected by success and failure.
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<p text="C">How can a devotee be enthusiastic about any-
thing? A man undertakes a work on account of the
pleasure in it or of the pleasure that it will bring.
There is no more work to be done by a devotee of
God-realisation. He enjoys the highest bliss.
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<p text="C">When the devotee has the fountain of all bliss
by his side, how can there be any desire for him for
the enjoyment of worthless and trivial sensual plea-
sure?
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<p text="C" merge-next="true">How can a trace of earthly desire remain when
God, the embodiment of bliss is attained by the de-
votee? Darshan of God comes in various ways, viz.
in dreams in physical form as ordinary man, in
physical form with four hands with conch, mace,
discus and lotus-flower in the hands, in the form of
cosmic consciousness which Arjuna had in the form
of Hiranyagarbha consciousness or full Knowledge of
Brahma Loka, etc. Note how Arjuna expresses his
experiences of cosmic consciousness.
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<ignore>32
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
<p text="C">of vision? A day will come to you also. Exert,
Struggle.
<p text="C"><bold>Na Utsaahi Bhavati:</bold> A devotee does not work
to promote his own self-interest but works for the
good of all without any sense of ego or of any feeling
of external compulsion, in a spirit of service to God.
As he is not prompted by ego, as he does not wish
for fruits, his actions are no actions at all.
<p text="C">He does not work for his personal pleasure and
profit. He has no enthusiasm for selfish or worldly
pursuits. He is not affected by success and failure.
<p text="C">How can a devotee be enthusiastic about any-
thing? A man undertakes a work on account of the
pleasure in it or of the pleasure that it will bring.
There is no more work to be done by a devotee of
God-realisation. He enjoys the highest bliss.
<p text="C">When the devotee has the fountain of all bliss
by his side, how can there be any desire for him for
the enjoyment of worthless and trivial sensual plea-
sure?
<p text="C" merge-next="true">How can a trace of earthly desire remain when
God, the embodiment of bliss is attained by the de-
votee? Darshan of God comes in various ways, viz.
in dreams in physical form as ordinary man, in
physical form with four hands with conch, mace,
discus and lotus-flower in the hands, in the form of
cosmic consciousness which Arjuna had in the form
of Hiranyagarbha consciousness or full Knowledge of
Brahma Loka, etc. Note how Arjuna expresses his
experiences of cosmic consciousness.
"
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