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away. Good lies only in meditation on the qualities and attributes of Godhood, but not in the words, the rosary, the beads or the thread on which they are strung. He alone who knows and meditates on his soul as God is to derive any benefit from the practice.
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
We may now turn our attention to Bhakti Yoga which is supposedly the easiest, and, therefore, the most popular, path of Self-realization. Unfortunately, however, there is no direct causal connection between devotion or love and salvation, so that Bhakti must give place to some other method, if it is ever to lead to Nirvana. Nevertheless, Bhakti is said to lead to God-vision, which is regarded as the goal of evolution by the school of devotional Mysticism. What this notion of God-vision means may be gathered from a little discourse by Sri Ram Krishna Paramahamsa, a Hindu saint, who flourished in recent times. Asked by a disciple as to whether it was possible to see God, he replied:-"Certainly. These are some of the means by which one can see God: (1) going from time to time into solitude, (2) chanting His names and His attributes, (3) discrimination, and (4) earnest prayer, with a yearning for the Lord. Thou mayest see God, if thy love for Him is as strong as the three attachments put together, viz., the attachment of a worldly man to things of the world, the attachment of the mother to her child, and the attachment of a chaste and devoted wife to her husband. The thing is, in order to see God, one must love Him, heart and soul."
Here also no attempt whatsoever is made to establish any causal connection between the vision of God and individual salvation, nor is any explanation offered of
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