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Just because you bring some milk, does not mean that it has become doodhpaak (milk delicacy). You need to light the stove, put the milk in a pan, keep stirring it, and then the doodhpaak will be made.
Only Bhaav Has Value!
In the worldly life (sansar), worldly things do not present an obstacle, but your bhaav is an obstacle. The Lord said that if the dravya is there, the bhaav will occur. This is what it was like during the good eras of the past time cycles. When a person made a donation, he would be so elated, that he would wonder when such an occasion would arise again. Whereas in this age, the effect (dravya) is different and so is the inner intent (bhaav). Nowadays, while giving the donation a person's inner intent (bhaav) will be, 'I would never give it, if it was not for the mayor who pressured me into it.' Therefore, the mind is different, the speech is different and the conduct is different. That is how they bind causes for a lower life-form. Because they are deceitful.
When a person goes to worship God, along with that, he also has to worship his shoes and his business! (his mind is on his shop and his shoes he left outside). The dravya (effect) is towards God, and the bhaav is towards his shoes and his shop. So what God says is that your bhaav is not according to your dravya; therefore, you have not practiced your religion (dharma) at all, and to believe 'I practice religion', would mean that you are being deceitful. For that reason you will definitely go into a lower life-form. On the path of the Vitarags, even this much of insincerity cannot be afforded by anyone.
Bhaav is of value. Today, nothing happens according to bhaav, does it? You may have made bhajiya (fritters), but if you have made them with bhaav, then they are worth even more. People do not know how to recognize bhaav. Even when they are offered delectable food with abhaav (absence of bhaav;
