Narada Bhakti Sutras - Text, Transliteration, Translation & Commentary /93

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<ignore>5. DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF BHAKTI
 

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<p text="C">unlawful. Impure selfish love taints the heart of a
 
man.
 

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<p text="C">Passion is not love at all. It is an animal instinct.

It is carnal love. It is of a beastly nature. It is

shifting. If the wife loses her beauty on account of

some incurable malady she gets a divorce and the

husband marries a second wife. This state of affairs

is going in the world. But Bhakti is Shuddha prem.

It is divine love. It is unchanging. The devotee

cherishes always the sense of majesty and magnani-

mity of the Lord. His Ishtam is the Lord of his very

breath (Prananath or pranavallabha). It is this idea

that keeps up his devotion, nourishes and strengthens

it. If this idea of the sense of greatness of the Lord

is lacking then he has no devotion. His devotion

tantamounts to the passion of a lustful husband and

wife. There is no grandeur in his devotion. Re-

membrance of the tenth chapter of the Gita where all

the Vibhutis of God are described will keep up the

idea of the sense of greatness of God. Devotion is a

sublime sacred sentiment. It elevates the soul imme-

diately to lofty heights of divinity. When a man

comes to realise the Mahima of the Lord, all worldly

desires die and all attachment and ties are broken

and the man is keen and eager to have Darshan of

the Lord.
 
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<p text="M">नास्त्येव तस्मिंस्तत्सुखसुखित्यवम् ॥ २४ ॥
 
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<ignore>Sutra 24. Naasthyeva tasminsthatsukhasukhitwam.
 
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<p text="There .i.e">There <error>.</error>i.e<fix>.</fix>, in that illicit love there can certainly

never be happiness of the other.
 
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