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BHAKTI-YOGA.
beautiful, Oh Thou art beautiful! Thou art beauty itself.” What is after all really required of us in this Yoga is that our thirst after the beautiful should be directed to God. What is the beauty in the human face, in the sky, in the stars, and in the moon ? It is only the partial apprehension of the real, all-embracing Divine Beauty. "He shining, everything shines. It is through His light that all things shine."* Take this high position of bhakti which makes you forget at once all your little personalities. Take yourself away from all the world's little selfish clingings. Do not look upon humanity as the centre of all your human and higher interests. Stand as a witness, as a student, and observe the phenomena of nature. Have the feeling of personal nonattachment with regard to man, and see how + CH4 HTTHHIf = 1 तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ॥
(Katha Upanishada, II. 5–15)
