The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12.19.

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Chapter 12: The Entry of the Soul into the Supreme Being

Part-19.

But that need not necessarily be the meaning of prayer.

Prayer can be an overwhelming, indwelling of God Himself in our soul—the soul getting invaded by the presence of God.

The soul getting possessed by the omnipresence of God can also be devotion, and there one cannot expect anything from God other than the presence of God Himself.

We are used to expecting things, and therefore we are also used to utilising persons and things as means for the fulfilment of our expectations.

So the very defect in which the human mind is involved transfers its usual ways of the envisagement of values even to God Himself, and while it asks for small things from small persons, it asks for large things from God.

The highest devotion is not an asking of anything from God.

Then, any kind of ulterior asking ceases in the processes of the mind—it becomes totally selfless.

The abolition of individual selfhood in gradual stages is the rise of devotion from the lower level to the higher level, called parabhakti or supreme devotion to God, which is identical with the wisdom of God—inseparable ultimately from the realisation of God Himself.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..




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