Surrender - Part 13

DEVOTION TRANSFORMING TO SUPREME LOVE TOWARDS GOD

As the Bhakta is in the state of single minded devotion, the inner conscience speaks thus - “There is only one truth-God. And there is nothing else. The world is His manifestation. All activities, happenings, doings, are His. All is He. This world is ephemeral and a passing show, a phenomenon only for a time. There is no individual existence. The individuality is simply imaginary, an ignorant condition of the mind.”

Love looks not with the eyes but with the heart. It is the crowning grace of humanity.

Bhakti is sacred love. It is a higher emotion, with sublime sentiment, that unites the devotee with the Lord. It has to be experienced. Human love is hollow; it is mere animal attraction; it is passion; it is carnal love; it is selfish love. It is ever-changing. It is all show and hypocrisy.

  

Dear Ones,

As the devotee’s heart is filled totally with God’s thoughts, something secret and subtle happens within the devotee’s heart, which the devotee cannot realize or know exactly.

Overwhelming devotion for the God with form fills the heart of devotee so much so that the penultimate stage in devotion is reached when Total Devotion for the Lord quietly, subtly but magnificently culminates in to Total Love.

A devotee very close to the author in author’s childhood, had no child even after many years of marriage. Swami almost pleaded with the devotee, asked him to request to Swami and develop a will within heart to have a child. Swami even promised to take care of the child, admit the child in Swami’s school and then college, fund the entire expenditure of the child’s education.

The devotee replied,"Swami, if I get a child, my attention would be divided between the child and you, so I don’t need the child, I want only you".

Upto this, it is single minded devotion.

But the devotee did not stop there, went further and told Swami, "Swami, in fact, I don’t even want you or anything from you, I just want my love for you to be eternal".

Here, the devotee’s devotion transforms to total love for God.

In this overwhelming tsunami of Love, everything flows, everything goes, even the form of God. Nothing remains except Love.

This state can only be experienced and can never be explained.

Yes, this has been amply described in  Srimad Bhagwatam in the Gopika’s love for Krishna. The glimpse of Gopika’s love for Krishna were shared while few Krishna Bhajans were taught in Sadan, if any one reading this remembers!

Shall we get more into Gopika’s love which is revealed in abundance by Sage Sukha’s description of Rasa leela, in the  next post?

Love.