Devotion

Only repeating God's name (Japa) is not worship, but any God favourable act, and a feeling pulling one towards God, are also worship.

The sole objective of attaining God and all acts pursuant, become the means, for the goal.

All actions for the world need to be done without getting attached with them, only treating these as a service or duty. But God's work (repetitive naming of God (Japa), meditation etc.) are absorbedly accomplished and treated as a special matter.

An aspirant should believe, with full faith in his heart that, "I belong to God and God is mine", then on his own he would naturally carry out his spiritual practice (Sādhana).

Day and night rapt practitioners of worship and meditation for God, benefit the world, more than those who merely act day and night.

"I have only to realize God"-such determinate intellect is the root of all devotional action. But by treating the world as permanent, such intellect is not born.

In being vain by the power of one's devotion, one gets anxious for his own shortcomings.

By successfully accomplishing one's devotional practice, there remains no desire to live, no fear of death, no attachment for receiving things nor any allurement for doing something, these four are forever, eliminated.

Whatever linkage and attraction man has with inert things, there is need to use all means for removing this attraction completely.

Mere practice is not worship, but remembrance of God, and love for Him is worship. Without treating God as one's own, neither memory nor love awakens, for Him.

Sadhana is made through the self, and not by mind, intellect and senses.

All the means available for achieving God, should be given more respect, than God-realization itself.

Sadhana if respected much it accelerates, if not so respected then it subsides and is not successful.

All means to take one towards God, are 'Svadharma', (one's own duty), while acts that lead to the world, are Paradharma.

One who causes pain to others, he has no heart in his worship.

Whatever the conditions, one should engage oneself in spiritual practice. If one looks for satisfactory circumstances, then there might be no Sādhana, (no practice).

The essence of all means is, detachment from the world and to realise one's link with God.

Indifference towards the world and love for God. are the 'summum bonum' (ultimate good) of all means of devotion.

Whatever height one might reach by practice, one should never be satisfied with that state.

Whatever situation man faces, one should be happy with the same and that is worship.

While worshipping God, one should not remember the world, nor forget God, when acting in the world.

To meditate, to do penance or repeat God's name for one's self, is devilish, but it is human to do things for the good of others.

Just as good business means more money, so those devotional means are good, which attract your mind more to God.

Whatever means appear easy, start the same, and then what looks difficult becomes easier, and what is not understood, becomes comprehensible.

One may take the assistance of any agent (such as body, mind) but one ought not to be dependent on it. This is known as 'Karana Nirapekşa' spiritual practice.

Those who do not worship or practice devotion during childhood and youth, they would probably, not do so in old age.

Sadhana is not like an everyday act, fixed for a designated time, but it has to be continuous.

"I am not the body, but I am the master of the body". If this is well realised then all practices would become easy.

Real practice is what is conducted continuously (every hour and each moment). Without continuous practice, we could not accomplish emancipation, in this life.

If our remembrance of God is not automatic and have to be reminded then we must understand (Sadhana), that our practice has not really started yet.

However much, we might practice, while maintaining the link with the world, there would be no realisation, in the present.

By devotion, practice comes on its own. If there is no devotion practice has to be done. What comes by itself is natural and real, and what is compelled to be done, is fake.

While doing work, God is forgotten only when one accepts the work as his own and doing it for oneself.

In truth, practice is not action; actions and materials are at the forefront of 'Asadhana'. In practice, feelings and understanding are prominent.

All practices lead to blessedness but a practice in which we have, liking, interest, faith and ability, that is best for us.