Devotion is a tremendous tool to break all limitations
within oneself. Whether it is psychological, emotional, or karmic restrictions
– if there is a flood of devotion, it will carry one across all these
boundaries effortlessly. With regular sadhana, it would need an enormous amount
of work to remove these boundaries. But with sadhana that is done in a state of
enormous devotion, you can ride the flood over all the boundaries that you have
created within yourself. This includes the prisons of perception that have come
up over a period of time.
Devotion is not a deduction that one makes. Devotion is a
way to rise beyond all deductions.
Let us say you see nicely arranged flowers, it is common for
human curiosity and intelligence to want to know who did this. If you see a
work of art, you would like to know who did it. But incredibly, very few
people, as they are engaged in life, with a masterpiece of creation right here
in the form of the human system, ask the question, “Who is the Creator?” And of
course, people have readymade answers. Devotion is not a readymade answer. Devotion
is a device to get there. Devotion is not a deduction that one makes. Devotion
is a way to rise beyond all deductions. Devotion is a way to create a flood
that will carry you beyond all limitations and restrictions in experience.
If you have given yourself in these twenty-one days, you
have not only purified yourself but all spaces around you. The nation and the
world will immensely benefit from this. And devotion is not a twenty-one day
chore. You must continue to overflow with it on a daily basis. It is not
something that you do, it is something that you live. It is like your breath.
If the Grace of Bhairavi, if her footprint is established in your heart, you
never have to worry about victory or failure, prosperity or poverty, life or
death. For one who manages to land in the lap of the Divine, all these things
are trivial and of no consequence.
Re-establishing Devotion
May this process that you have started truly overwhelm you,
because if the phenomenon of creation and the source of creation do not
overwhelm you, you are not even fit to be a rock. If this does not overwhelm
you, what does? The government symbol of Tamil Nadu is a temple. They chose
this symbol because this land has been so steeped in devotion that wherever you
went, it always felt like a temple. Devotion was the main piece of people’s
lives here.
It is once again time to re-establish this. Otherwise,
devoid of devotion, we will become like any other creature. Then we will wonder
why we are here. Because if you just eat, sleep, reproduce, and die one day,
somewhere along the way, if you have a working brain, the question will come,
“Why the hell am I here? What is the nature of my existence?”
Becoming Naturally Blissful
Devotion is a powerful tool. It is a bulldozer that crushes
all resistance within you. With devotion, everything gets unified. The idea of
the twenty-one day sadhana is to make devotion a part of your life, every
moment of your life. If in one place, you act devotional, and in the rest of
the places, you are not, it simply means that you are pretentious. If it is
real, if you are like that every moment of your life, with everything in the
world – that is devotion.
A heart that is devoid of devotion is a barren heart. It
needs too much work and stimulation to make it blissful. A heart that is filled
with devotion is fertile. It will naturally be blissful. We need a wave of
devotion. If you are soaked in devotion, blissfulness will simply happen.
Please make it happen for yourself and to as many people around you as
possible.
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