Oleh : Anand Krishna
Hearts soaked in love, saturated with love fully - only such hearts - can conceive devotion. Any other is not possible. Understand this properly, for without proper understanding you shall be deceiving yourself. You will imagine that you are devoted, but such an imagination will be far from reality. That will not be devotion.
Lighting candles in church, kneeling before the cross, saying prayers religiously a number of times in a mosque, singing hymn in temples and viharas-all these are good. I am not opposed to such acts, for they necessary disciplines to speed up the process of devotion in you. But, consider this : they in themselves are not acts of devotion. They are the means to help develop devotion in you - nothing more than that.
They are necessary until devotion is born within you. Once you have the birth of devotion within you, you will begin to see your beloved everywhere. He is in the west and in the east, in the north and the south-he is everywhere. This entire creation becomes a temple. Your life will then turn into an unending expression of devotion. A devotee is essentially a lover. He sees his beloved everywhere. All that he does will be acts of worship. He does nothing for his own personal gain. Whatever he does; he does it for love's sake. Once again, you must understand this correctly, for many a time you fail to recognize devotee.
Your concept of devotion is wrong. You believe that a devotee will reject, will deny the world of matter and embrace the abstract world of spirit, No, they are escapists; they are not devotees. Either you accepts, or you reject. You cannot do both at one and the same time. A devotee has already accepted love. So, he will have nothing to do with hatred. Hence, he has nothing to do with rejection, or with denial.
If you reject matter and accept spirit, your acceptance will be a product of denial, of rejection. Such cannot be an acceptance. No, this is not acceptance. A mango seed cannot grow to be an apple tree. It is agains all laws of nature. When you reject the world, you are sowing the seed of hatred. How can you hope for a tree of love and devotion..?
Lighting candles in church, kneeling before the cross, saying prayers religiously a number of times in a mosque, singing hymn in temples and viharas-all these are good. I am not opposed to such acts, for they necessary disciplines to speed up the process of devotion in you. But, consider this : they in themselves are not acts of devotion. They are the means to help develop devotion in you - nothing more than that.
They are necessary until devotion is born within you. Once you have the birth of devotion within you, you will begin to see your beloved everywhere. He is in the west and in the east, in the north and the south-he is everywhere. This entire creation becomes a temple. Your life will then turn into an unending expression of devotion. A devotee is essentially a lover. He sees his beloved everywhere. All that he does will be acts of worship. He does nothing for his own personal gain. Whatever he does; he does it for love's sake. Once again, you must understand this correctly, for many a time you fail to recognize devotee.
Your concept of devotion is wrong. You believe that a devotee will reject, will deny the world of matter and embrace the abstract world of spirit, No, they are escapists; they are not devotees. Either you accepts, or you reject. You cannot do both at one and the same time. A devotee has already accepted love. So, he will have nothing to do with hatred. Hence, he has nothing to do with rejection, or with denial.
If you reject matter and accept spirit, your acceptance will be a product of denial, of rejection. Such cannot be an acceptance. No, this is not acceptance. A mango seed cannot grow to be an apple tree. It is agains all laws of nature. When you reject the world, you are sowing the seed of hatred. How can you hope for a tree of love and devotion..?
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