Aptavani Shreni 04

SR No.: 030034
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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about it! Hey! Why don't you just think about where you are sitting? You will go on thinking about your shop even while you are walking along. And when they set out to go to the temple, no one is thinking about religion. They think about their shops instead. So many people just have a habit of going to the temple every day. Alas! Is it just out of habit that you go to do the Lord's darshan? Every day the darshan of the Lord should feel new. And at the time of going to do darshan, your fervor and joy of going there should be as fresh, each time. This going to the temple for darshan every day, has just become a sort of habit.
How can you practice dharma? Should one do karma or dharma the whole day? Only those, whose merit karma (punya) allows them to do just a couple of hours of work a day, which they get done in no time, can do dharma and attain it.
Can God Be Attained through Worship?
Questioner: Can anyone attain God by doing devotional worship (bhakti)?
Dadashri: You cannot do anything to attain God (Ishwar) through your five senses. That would be indirect devotion (paroksh bhakti).
Questioner: Wouldn't that be kalpanik (of the imagination) bhakti?
Dadashri: That is all just kalpanik bhakti. And when the bhakti (worship) becomes nirvikalp (without ego) then your work gets done. Vikalp worship is done through the mind.
Questioner: I like bhakti (devotional worship) in everything.
Dadashri: Bhakti is your tuber (granthi; knot). Thoughts of bhakti, thoughts of darshan, are granthi (tuber). Sooner or later you will have to become nirgranth (free from tubers;