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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
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<p text="C">A devotee who has drunk the wine of divine love
cannot observe the conventional rules of propriety.
He is not a slave of the conventional laws of society
and scriptures. The God-intoxicated devotee is not
conscious of himself.
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<p text="C"><bold>Stabdha bhavati:</bold> When a devotee acts, it is God
who acts through him. A devotee is inwardly quite
peaceful and serene when he serves the world out of
peaceful and serene when he serves the world out of
love and mercy.
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<p text="C"><bold>Atmaaramo bhavati:</bold> The devotee grows into the
likeness of the Lord and therefore shares with Him
His perfection and partakes of His infinite bliss and
joy. He realises the Atman within and beholds the
Atman in every creature.
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<p text="C" merge-next="true">When one is happy in his own Self, then alone he
becomes independent. If one depends for his happi-
ness on perishable objects, he begins to weep when
the centre of his pleasure is withdrawn. The husband
weeps when his wife or son dies, when the bank in
which he has deposited his money fails. Objects that
are conditioned in time, space and causation are
Vinasi, perishable. They cannot give therefore,
eternal happiness to human beings. So in the Gita
Bhagavan Sri Krishna says:""The delights that are
contact-born, they are verily wombs of pain, for they
have beginning and ending, O Kaunteya, not in them
may rejoice the wise. Ch. V-22. That which from the
union of the senses with their objects at first is as
nectar, but in the end is like venom, he whose Self
is unattached to external contacts and findeth joy in
the Self, having the self harmonised with the Eternal
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<ignore>38
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
<p text="C">A devotee who has drunk the wine of divine love
cannot observe the conventional rules of propriety.
He is not a slave of the conventional laws of society
and scriptures. The God-intoxicated devotee is not
conscious of himself.
<p text="C"><bold>Stabdha bhavati:</bold> When a devotee acts, it is God
who acts through him. A devotee is inwardly quite
peaceful and serene when he serves the world out of
peaceful and serene when he serves the world out of
love and mercy.
<p text="C"><bold>Atmaaramo bhavati:</bold> The devotee grows into the
likeness of the Lord and therefore shares with Him
His perfection and partakes of His infinite bliss and
joy. He realises the Atman within and beholds the
Atman in every creature.
<p text="C" merge-next="true">When one is happy in his own Self, then alone he
becomes independent. If one depends for his happi-
ness on perishable objects, he begins to weep when
the centre of his pleasure is withdrawn. The husband
weeps when his wife or son dies, when the bank in
which he has deposited his money fails. Objects that
are conditioned in time, space and causation are
Vinasi, perishable. They cannot give therefore,
eternal happiness to human beings. So in the Gita
Bhagavan Sri Krishna says:
contact-born, they are verily wombs of pain, for they
have beginning and ending, O Kaunteya, not in them
may rejoice the wise. Ch. V-22. That which from the
union of the senses with their objects at first is as
nectar, but in the end is like venom, he whose Self
is unattached to external contacts and findeth joy in
the Self, having the self harmonised with the Eternal
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