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BHAKTI-YOGA.
Nishtha, or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. He must say with Hanuman in the Ramayana--"Though I know that the Lord of Sri and the Lord of Janaki are both manifestations of the same Supreme Being and therefore One and the same, yet my all in all is the lotus-eyed Râma."*mor, as was said by the sage Tulasidâs, he must say—“Take the sweetness of all, sit with all, take the name of all, and say yea, yea to every one but hold your own position firmly.”+ Then, if the devotional aspirant is sincere, out of this little seed will come out a gigantic tree like the Indian banyan sending branch after branch and root after root to all sides, till it covers the entire
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तथापि मम सर्वस्वी रामः कमलखीचनः । + सबसे वसिये सबसे रसिये सबका लिजिये नाम ।
हाजी हांजी करते रहिये वैठिये पापना ठाम ।
-Tulasidas.
