Narada Bhakti Sutras - Text, Transliteration, Translation & Commentary /77

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DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF BHAKTI
 

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<p text="C">senses without being clouded by Upadhis and purified

by being directed towards Him.
 
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<p text="C">Sri Ramanujacharya identifies Bhakti with
loving meditation.
 

loving meditation.</p>
<p text="C">Sandilya describes Bhakti as supreme love of

God. Svapneswara comments on this Sutra and says
that this love results from the realisation of the

that this love results from the realisation of the
greatness of the Lord.
 
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<p text="C">Thus there are different views. These views are

different on account of the differences in which the

divine love is experienced by devotees who are in
different stages of development or evolution and also
in different moods or states.
 

different stages of development or evolution and also
in different moods or states.</p>
<p text="C">Lakshana means mark or characteristic or sign
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All devotees unanimously agree in the essential cha
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racteristics of devotion. But some give prominence

to certain indications; while others to certain other

marks. That is all. There cannot be any fundamental
difference in the essence.
 

difference in the essence.</p>
<p text="C">Nanamatabhedat means according to various
 
opinions.
 

opinions.</p>
<p text="M">पूजादिष्वनुराग इति पाराशर्य :यः ॥ १६ ॥
 
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<ignore>Sutra 16. Poojadishwanuraga iti paaraasaryah.
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<p text="T">Vyasa, the son of Paaraasara, is of opinion that

Bhakti consists in attachment to worship of

God and other similar acts.
 
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<p text="G" merge-next="true">पूजादिषु : Poojadishu: in worship and like per
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formances; &अनुरागः Anuraga: Anuraga: devotion, attach-
 
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