Further on Anuraag - "Attachment to God "

Dear All,

In today's post, Vyaasa defines Bhakti as "Attachment towards God, through whatever ways one worships God".

Brother Hari, in a talk  reveals that Swami has defined Bhakti in 3 simplest steps that even a normal human being, without the previous background of any literature of Spirituality, without any listening of discourses, without any background whatsoever, can very easily understand, whether he practices it or not.

STEP 1

Devotion is attachment towards God.

Where, we channelize all our stupid attachments towards so many objects, relations etc. in this material world towards God and only God.

STEP 2

Such attachment has only one route - Up and Up

Where, the attachment towards God can not halt and relax, cannot stumble back, cannot go in any other direction but it can only go up and up and up, towards God. 

In real life,  In the path of devotion, we human beings keep swinging from one God, one route, to so many other routes, run to so many other semi Gods / Gurus, take so many halts, start walking backward instead of moving forward towards God, take up so many activities with ego in the name of our Love for God ....... and............

SWAMI / GOD WATCHES US in all these above distractions, AS HE IS OUR PRANA SAKHA, OUR ETERNAL COMPANION, EVEN IN ALL OUR RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM AND SAYS, "YOU CAN LEAVE ME BUT HOW CAN I?!!!!!!

STEP 3

Such an  upward moving attachment to God must be in Total Surrender

Where, the Bhakta surrenders  his very identity at the lotus feet of the Lord. We say, we surrender our thoughts and words and actions etc. Even we say so, we very much retain the identity of "we", our identity as this stupid human being. That "we", our identity, must be surrendered to God, then only we will have nothing to hold on to, except His Lotus feet.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, 

This small piece of Hari's talk along with author's elaboration which would come from within, was to be taken up in the talk on "Purpose of Bhajan" in Sai centre in Muscat, which was held last month, but due to shortage of time, this was skipped. All His will.

In the 3 simple steps given by Bhagwan, the entire Bhakti treatise of all religions which have come up so far, is contained, in ESSENCE. 

Love.