An intense desire can either frustrate you or make you prayerful. In prayerfulness, there is gratitude and devotion.

Culmination of devotion (bhakti) is non-duality (advaita).

Dedication can only come with Devotion and when there is a goal to achieve and passion for the goal then also dedication come.

An intense desire can either frustrate you or make you prayerful. In prayerfulness, there is gratitude & devotion.

An intense desire can frustrate you or make you prayerful. In prayerfulness, there is gratitude & devotion.

Devotion is like a diamond; don’t trade it for anything that is muddy. A diamond should never be traded for a cup of mud.

When your faith and devotion remain intact and unshaken during those turbulent times, then you do not feel the unpleasantness of the situations. Faith becomes your anchor during these difficult times and keeps you steady.

Faith is not that which can come to an end, this is the first thing. Every time your faith shakes, your devotion will be renewed from within once again.

You cannot separate knowledge and devotion. In the beginning, if there is knowledge, love (devotion) will soon follow. And if there is love (devotion) in the beginning then knowledge will soon follow. So never think of them as two separate paths.

Open your ears wide and listen. You are a devotee and a true devotee. Don’t ever raise a doubt on this. The badness is imposed from outside. Inside you are one with the Truth. Your devotion is also true devotion. This is the way to think.

The more you grow in knowledge, you see that ego goes away. You know, around the seed there is a membrane. When you soak it in water, the seed bulges, sprouts and automatically the membrane breaks away. But if you try to peel the skin, the seed itself will break. Same way, when you soak yourself in knowledge, in devotion, in love, and in wisdom, you automatically find the ego going away.

Knowledge only prepares you to dive into devotion. Knowledge is like the soup that you put on the cloth. Of course it washes away the dirt. But love is like purity of the garment.