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THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA.
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in itself the highest utility also ? There are people in this world, and a good many of them too, who are covinced that that alone is of use and utility which brings creature-comforts to man. Religion, God, Eternity, Soul, none of these is of any use to them, for these do not bring them money or physical comfort ! To such, things, which do not gratify the senses or appease the appetites, are of any utility. In every mind, utility, however, is conditioned by its own peculiar wants. To men, therefore, who never rise higher than eating, drinking, begetting progeny, and dying, the gain lies in sense-enjoyments only; and they must wait and go through many more re-incarnations to learn to feel even the faintest necessity for anything higher. But those to whom the eternal interests of the soul are of much higher value than the fleeting interests of this mundane life, to whom the gratification of the senses is but like the thoughtless play of the baby, to them God
