“The
fire of devotion purifies the heart of the devotee and leads to spiritual
freedom. Mysticism without devotion is like uncooked food and can never be assimilated.
'I am the heart of my devotees,' says Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. And Hafiz
says, 'O joyous day when I depart from this abode of desolation, seeking the
repose of my soul and setting out in search of my Beloved.'” Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bhakti and Jnana are not different – each leads to the other.
The greatest jnanis never ceased to weep tears of absolute devotion.
If you would love God, do it with
all your being, with no holding back.
Let your heart melt in that flame!
Devotion is the way and the goal,
the seeker and the sought.
Devotion is bone-melting,
ecstatic and unconditional love,
It is joyous sacrifice and absolute surrender.
The true devotee seeks only to
lose himself totally like salt in the sea,
To merge forever with the
Beloved.
The bliss of devotion is infinite
and eternal,
an end in itself, asking for nothing else.
Sweet Lord shining so radiant in
my Heart,
I would gladly live a million lifetimes
as the dust beneath your feet!
“When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end, and birth and death are no more. When in inner union he is beyond the world of the body, then the third world, the world of the Spirit, is found, where the power of the All shines, and man has all—for he is one with the One.”
KrishnaYajur Veda, Shvetasvatara Upanishad
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