The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 15-5.



Chapter 15: The Rarest of Devotees-5.

How the grace of God works instantaneously in the case of such devotees, how God takes action in a timeless manner is dramatically displayed and demonstrated in the experiences of the great saints and sages of yore.

These sages could speak to God more intimately then we speak with one another.

Even the so-called inanimate idols could wake up into consciousness and speak to them due to the intensity of their feeling of the presence of God.

If we study, with concentration of mind, the lives of such faiths as those who lived sometime back in Maharashtra, for instance, around the holy place of Pandarpur, the Shaivite saints known as the Nyanars and the Vaishnava saints known as the Alvars, we would simply be wonderstruck as to the sincerity of those saints in their devotion to God and the unimaginable miracles that God automatically worked around them, even without their knowing what was happening.

These devotees never asked anything from God.

As a matter of fact, one who asks anything from God is a merchant of devotion—he sells his devotion for merchandise of divine grace.

The highest devotee seeks nothing temporal, material or visible from the Almighty, because what can be greater than the Almighty?

Do we imagine that what He gives is greater than He Himself?

The One who gives is greater than what is given, and hence wisdom-charged devotees ask nothing from God but seek God only.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....


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