Friday, June 19, 2020

The Dust At Your Feet


“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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