PUJYA SHREE MOTA

Thursday, October 12, 2017

TRUE DEVOTION (BHAKTI, ભક્તિ)

Life filled with devotion is not an imagination. It is also not an emotional life. Devotion is also not hollow and insincere. The very base of devotional life consists of knowledge and its factual reality. Devotion is considered true when it makes all the inner implements (mind, intelligence etc), stick to the loving contemplation of the divine consciousness. One needs intense, heartfelt, immeasurable and intoxicating bhava to develop such devotion. It is very difficult for devotion to spring up without having such heartfelt loving bhava. Devotional life is filled with courage and valor. Courage, adventure, patience and endurance of devotion cannot be compared with anything else.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Pokar
Edition 4, page 323.