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BHAKTI-YOGA.
Lord”. Not only this, the bhakta must take care not to hate nor even to criticize, those radiant sons of light who are the founders of various sects. He is not even to hear them spoken ill of. Very few indeed are those, who are at once the possessors of an extensive sympathy and power of appreciation, as well as an intensity of love. We find as a rule that liberal and sympathetic sects lose the intensity of religious feeling, and in their hands religion is apt to degenerate into a kind of politico-social club life. On the other hand intensely narrow sectaries, whilst displaying a very commendable love of their own ideals, are seen to have acquired every particle of that love by hating every one who is not exactly of the same opinion as
मामामकारि बहुधा निजसर्वशक्तिसवार्पिता नियमित: अरणे न काल: । एतादृशौ तव कृपा भगवन् ममापि शमिहानि नानुरागः।
(Sree Krishna Chaitanya )
