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DEFINITION OF BHAKTI.
particularly careful to know is, who says it. The same man who is kind, good, honest, and loving, to people of his own opinion will not hesitate to do the vilest deeds, when they are directed against persons beyond the pale of his own religious brotherhood.
But this danger exists only in that stage of Bhakti which is called the preparatory (irit). When Bhakti has become ripe and has passed into that form which is called the supreme (TTT), no more is there any fear of these hideous manifestations of fanaticism ; that soul which is overpowered by this higher form of Bhakti is too near the God of Love to become an instrument for the diffusion of hatred.
It is not given to all of us to be harmonious in the building up of our characters in this life : yet we know that that character is of the noblest type in which all these. three-Knowledge and Love and Yogamare harmoniously fused. Three things are
