Narada Bhakti Sutra - Post 66

Sutra 60. Saanti roopaat paramaanandroopaachcha.

[The path of devotion is easy) because it (devotion) is of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.]

Saantiroopaat : of the form of peace of mind ;

Paramaanandaroopaat : because form of supreme bliss because of its being of its being of the and.

The devotee forgets everything, even himself. He truly lives only for God. He lives in God.

Honey gives sweetness at once to anyone who tastes it. Even so devotion bestows perfect peace and supreme bliss. This fact is self-evident. It admits of no further proof.

HOW MAN LOSES HIS  PEACE / BLISS?

·  We should have, by now, be absolutely clear, after reading so many times in so many theme posts in this blog that God created man exactly as He himself, pure, divine, spotless, blemish less!!

·  When Man was thus born for the first time, he cannot have ego. By EGO, what do we mean?? The basic Ego is “Identifying oneself with one’s limited identity with his / her body, the physical existence and forgetting that one is not this body but one is divine, pure SELF, as one is created by God.

·  So, is it now  absolutely clear that as long as man exists exactly as he is created by God, he cannot have his ego identity, he cannot be affected by hatred, attachment etc. , as these factors- Hatred, Attachment etc. are children of the mother Ego.

·  Only when one identifies oneself with his body and mind, then that  mind, identifying ourselves as our physical identity as Ram or Shaym or Mohamad or Peter etc., can hate someone (who is not suiting to, who do not gel well with what we have thought as our identity, our likes, our dislikes, our nature etc.) or love someone (who suit, who recognize our nature, our likes, our dislikes, our way of life).

·   With this Ego identity, with this Raga, Dvesha, our mind is agitated and in that agitated mind, our peace is gone, our bliss is disturbed!!!!

WHEN WE LOVE GOD

·  And, when one is immersed in God’s Love in and out, then what happens?

·  Our Ego, identifying ourselves as this body, this mind- is slowly and steadily getting dissolved in the ocean of Love which has enveloped us totally.

·  When we exist as Love ourselves, then, we truly exist as God, for, the God Himself declared- LOVE IS GOD!!

·  When we have no mind to love/ hate any one with respect to our limited identity, when we don’t have the mind to treat someone as Mine and someone as not mine,  when we do not have mind to get affected by whatever is happening around us in the world, when our mind, if it exists, is totally filled with God’s love, then, can we close our eyes and at least think or imagine, if we are able to exist thus for a day, even for an hour, in that  day or hour, How would we exist as??? What perhaps would be our experience??

· WE   WOULD BE IN TOTAL PEACE, TOTAL BLISS, BECAUSE, IN OUR EXISTENCE AS LOVE, WE EXIST EXACTLY AS GOD EXISTS.

· Though Sai did have a body, Sai did have the whole educational  institutions, the ashram, the super specialty  hospitals to be looked after, though He worked tirelessly to look after all these things , still, HOW WOULD HE INTERNALLY BE?? WHAT EXPERIENCE DOES A DEVOTEE HAS, WHEN HIS EYES MEET SAI’S EYES FOR A SECOND?? WHAT PURITY IS EXPERIENCED, WHICH IS RADIATED BY SAI’S EYES, SAI’S DARSHAN???

·  That purity, the divinity, the devotee, in his Love for God, exists as!!!

·  In that state of existence, like Sai, it is not enough to say that the devotee finds peace, the devotee experiences bliss. To say thus would mean that peace, bliss etc. are something different from the devotee / Sai. If they are something different from you, then you cannot be Peace/ Bliss eternally. Peace and bliss would come and go just like your relatives, who are different from you, visit you and leave you after staying with you for few days.

·  SAI IS LOVE, SAI IS BLISS, SAI IS ANANDA. Similarly, the devotee who has experienced that Sai’s love also exists AS PEACE, AS BLISS!!!!

·  The most appropriate expression is – He abides in peace, He abides in Bliss (just like it is said, the sadhaka who has experienced SELF/ ATMAN, Abides in SELF)

Love.