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BHAKTI-YOGA
This is the ideal preparation for the attainmei of the supreme Bhakti. When this renunciatic comes, the gate opens for the soul to pass throug and reach the lofty regions of Supreme Devotion Para-Bhakti. Then it is that we begin to unde: stand what Para-Bhakti is; and the man who ha entered into the inner shrine of the Para-Bhakt alone has the right to say that all forms and symbol are useless to him as aids to religious realisation. H alone has attained that supreme state of love com monly called the brotherhood of men; the rest onl: talk. He sees no distinctions; the mighty oceano love has entered into him, and he sees not man ir man, but beholds his Beloved everywhere. Throug] every face shines to him his Hari. The light in the sun or the moon is all His manifestation. Whereve there is beauty or sublimity, to him it is all His Such Bhaktas are still living; the world is nevei without them. Such, though bitten by a serpent only say that a messenger came to them from their Beloved. Such men alone have the right to talk of universal brotherhood. They feel no resentment; their minds never react in the form of hatred, or jealousy. The external, the sensuous, has vanished from them for ever. How can they be angry, when, through their love, they are always able to see the Reality behind the scenes ?
