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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
Puranas speak of even animals getting the grace of
the Lord. There is the account of Gajendra
Siddho Bhavati: The devotee becomes perfect
through God-realisation. His object is attained. All
his desires are gratified by God-realisation. He never
feels the want of anything. He enjoys supreme peace,
eternal and perfect satisfaction and ever-lasting bliss
and so he becomes a siddha.
For a devotee Siddhis or powers are worthless.
He does not care for them. These are nothing when
compared to Divine Love. He rejects even the
position of Indra or Brahma, even Mukti or liberation.
His mind is filled with divine ecstasy. He has realised
the whole.
He has realised the essence and totality of all
He has attained the source and fountain of all. And
so he is perfect, immortal and thoroughly satisfied.
He cannot be attracted towards external objects.
which are incomplete, imperfect, defective and are
only parts.
A. Siddha is a perfect man. He has reached the
goal. He has attained God-realisation. In common
parlance the word Siddha denotes a man who is en-
dowed with various superhuman powers or Siddhis.
It is not in any such sense the word is used here.
The sign of a perfect man or Siddha is not the pos-
session of miraculous powers but the attainment of
God-realisation or unity with the Supreme Being.
Amrito Bhavati: He who has attained God
realisation becomes immortal. He ever lives in the
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
Puranas speak of even animals getting the grace of
the Lord. There is the account of Gajendra
Siddho Bhavati: The devotee becomes perfect
through God-realisation. His object is attained. All
his desires are gratified by God-realisation. He never
feels the want of anything. He enjoys supreme peace,
eternal and perfect satisfaction and ever-lasting bliss
and so he becomes a siddha.
For a devotee Siddhis or powers are worthless.
He does not care for them. These are nothing when
compared to Divine Love. He rejects even the
position of Indra or Brahma, even Mukti or liberation.
His mind is filled with divine ecstasy. He has realised
the whole.
He has realised the essence and totality of all
He has attained the source and fountain of all. And
so he is perfect, immortal and thoroughly satisfied.
He cannot be attracted towards external objects.
which are incomplete, imperfect, defective and are
only parts.
A. Siddha is a perfect man. He has reached the
goal. He has attained God-realisation. In common
parlance the word Siddha denotes a man who is en-
dowed with various superhuman powers or Siddhis.
It is not in any such sense the word is used here.
The sign of a perfect man or Siddha is not the pos-
session of miraculous powers but the attainment of
God-realisation or unity with the Supreme Being.
Amrito Bhavati: He who has attained God
realisation becomes immortal. He ever lives in the