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AN INSTRUMENT OF THE DIVINE
Ramanand Sagar
This historical city of Munger has given birth to a huge movement. I believe that the fragrance emanating from here is enveloping the country and the entire international environment and will continue to do so. When Paramahamsa Niranjanananda asked me to come here he was very insistent. The Commissioner of this city also sent a message. Then the whole night I was wondering where I would fit in a place where such great yogis, great adepts and great intellectuals would be speaking. What is my ability? Then I thought that Mother Bhagavati and Gurudev have given me an opportunity to come here, and the scriptures say that merely by being in the presence of adepts, one's life becomes a success, one's birth becomes a success.
Professor Bhushan was talking of yoga and concluded by speaking of love. Then I understood. I said to myself, “This is true." I do not know yoga but I do know love. I understood that love is the supreme yoga. And the rest are techniques. I feel yoga is such a science that it is not a topic for comprehension. Sentiment is a result of comprehension. When a person comprehends, there is no scope for tests and trials. Yoga is like arithmetic. Two plus two can only equal four, not three or three and three quarters. So when experts of yoga talk of love, I get the feeling that in fact the culmination of yoga is in bhakti because the final stage of love is bhakti and bhakti is the supreme yoga. I feel every path, every yoga converges there like all the rivers converge at the sea. In the same way all knowledge, science and scriptures ultimately converge at the feet of the Lord. I get this feeling also since I have been treading the path of karma yoga. (I have concluded the Ramayana and presently my services are being utilized for the Bhagawat Maluran for the life story of Lord Sri Krishna.) I get an intuitive feeling that ultimately, all our philosophies and all knowledge converges here, where you reach bhakti. Nothing lies beyond bhakti, beyond bhakti is only the supreme per
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