Bhakti-yogaBrahmachari Kapila from Udbodhan Office, 1914 - 175 pages |
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... thou , nor he , where there is neither subject , nor object , nor relation , " there , who can be seen , by whom ? " - Such * श्रात्मारामाश्च मुनयो निर्ग्रन्था अपुप्ररुक्रमे ...
... thou , nor he , where there is neither subject , nor object , nor relation , " there , who can be seen , by whom ? " - Such * श्रात्मारामाश्च मुनयो निर्ग्रन्था अपुप्ररुक्रमे ...
Page 78
... Thou reachest the worshipper through any one of them ! Neither is there any special time mentioned to take Thy name so long as the soul has intense love for Thee . Thou art so easy of approach ! It is my misfortune that I cannot ...
... Thou reachest the worshipper through any one of them ! Neither is there any special time mentioned to take Thy name so long as the soul has intense love for Thee . Thou art so easy of approach ! It is my misfortune that I cannot ...
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... Thou art my love ! Thou art beautiful , oh Thou art beautiful ! Thou art beauty itself ! -such has been the effusion of heart RENUNCIATION FROM LOVE . 109.
... Thou art my love ! Thou art beautiful , oh Thou art beautiful ! Thou art beauty itself ! -such has been the effusion of heart RENUNCIATION FROM LOVE . 109.
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... Thou art our beloved friend , " † says the bhakta who takes up this ideal , and he opens his heart to God as a man does to his friend , knowing that the friend will never chide him for his faults , but will always try to help him . And ...
... Thou art our beloved friend , " † says the bhakta who takes up this ideal , and he opens his heart to God as a man does to his friend , knowing that the friend will never chide him for his faults , but will always try to help him . And ...
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... Thou ever my Love . " * Aye , be Thou ever and ever my Love . And what more can we want after that ! " Who cares to become sugar ? " - says the bhakta ; " I want to taste sugar ; " I want to taste the sweetness of the blissful Lord ...
... Thou ever my Love . " * Aye , be Thou ever and ever my Love . And what more can we want after that ! " Who cares to become sugar ? " - says the bhakta ; " I want to taste sugar ; " I want to taste the sweetness of the blissful Lord ...
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Absolute Ahimsa aspirant Atman attachment attain attraction become begins to love beloved Bhagavan Bhagavata bhakta says Bhakti-Yoga blessed bliss body bondages Brahman child clay comes desires divine love emotions eternal everything feels Gita Gopis Hari highest ideal idea ideal of love incarnations infinite intellectual intense love Isvara Jnana-Yoga karma Katha Upanishad kind of love knowledge liberated soul lover lower forms Madhvacharya man-the manifestation means meditation mind moksha Mundaka nature never object pain perfect philosophy pleasure pratika purity Raja Yoga Ramanuja realise religious renunciation result rever ruling the universe sage sake Sandilya Sankara SARADANANDA Sat-chit-ananda sattva scriptures selfish senses shines Sister Nivedita sound-symbol sphota spiritual Srutis struggle supreme devotion Supreme Lord Supreme Ruler Swami Vivekananda symbol teacher texts things tion Udbodhan unto Upanishad vanish Vedanta Sutras Vedas Vishnu Puran Vyasa whole words worship Yoga yogin कामाय प्रियो
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Page 31 - Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind. 6. ' The hereafter never rises before the eyes of the careless child, deluded by the delusion of wealth. " This is the world," he thinks, " there is no other " — thus he falls again and again under my sway.
Page 3 - When a man gets it he loves all, hates none ; he becomes satisfied for ever." — "This love cannot be reduced to any earthly benefit," because so long as worldly desires last that kind of love does not come. "Bhakti is greater than Karma, greater than Yoga, because these are intended for an object in view, while Bhakti is its own fruition, its own means and its own end.
Page 10 - He is devoted to the king, — He is devoted to the Guru ; they say this of him who follows his Guru, and does so, having that following as the one end in view." Similarly they say — ' The loving wife meditates on her loving husband; ' here also a kind of eager and continuous remembrance is meant." This is devotion according to Sankara. " Meditation again is a constant remembrance (of the thing meditated upon) flowing like an unbroken stream of oil poured out from one vessel to another. When this...
Page 100 - ... it is the handful of arranged material molecules which really attracts the man? Not at all. Behind those material particles there must be and is the play of divine influence and divine love. The ignorant man does not know it; but yet, consciously or unconsciously, he is attracted by it and it alone. So even the lowest forms of attraction derive their power from God Himself. " None, O beloved, ever loved the husband for the husband's sake; it is the Atman, the Lord, who is inside, and for His...
Page 27 - This insufficiency of books to quicken spiritual growth is the reason why, although almost every one of us can speak most wonderfully on spiritual matters, when it comes to action and the living of a truly spiritual life, we find ourselves so awfully deficient. To quicken the spirit, the impulse must come from another soul.
Page 12 - The extremely beloved is desired; by whomsoever this Atman is extremely beloved, he becomes the most beloved of the Atman. So that this beloved may attain the Atman, the Lord himself helps. For it has been said by the Lord: ' Those who are constantly attached to me and worship me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to me.
Page 10 - ... (He who is near can be seen, but he who is far can only be remembered. Nevertheless the scripture says that we have to see Him who is near as well as Him who is far, thereby indicating to us that the above kind of remembering is as good as seeing.)
Page 11 - This Atman is not to be reached through various sciences, nor by intellect, nor by much study of the Vedas. Whomsoever this Atman desires by him is the Atman attained, unto him this Atman discovers himself.' Here after saying that mere hearing, thinking, and meditating are not the means of attaining this Atman, it is said, ' Whom this Atman desires by him the Atman is attained.
Page 5 - The one great advantage of bhakti is that it is the easiest and the most natural way to reach the great divine end in view. Its great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism or Mohammedanism or Christianity have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers on the lower planes of bhakti.
Page 28 - ... to which it is transmitted must be fit to receive it. The seed must be a living seed, and the field must be ready ploughed, and when both these conditions are fulfilled, a wonderful growth of religion takes place. "The speaker of religion must be wonderful, so must the hearer be,'' and when both of these are really wonderful, extraordinary, then alone will splendid spiritual growth come, and not otherwise.