God and Devotion

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV





Nobody is `gifted'. You have to earn everything. Either you earn joyfully, or you earn miserably. That is all the choice there is. There are a variety of practices through which one earns. But the simplest way, the easiest way and also the most self-destructive way, is devotion.What is Grace, first of all? If you look at yourself as a machine -you have brains, body, everything. But what you call as `Grace' is the lubrication. Without lubrication you have a great engine but you get stuck at every point.Devotion would be the easiest way to become receptive to this Grace so that the process of life becomes graceful. The cunning mind, however, is unable to devote itself to anybody or anything. You can sing songs of devotion, but you have your own calculation: What has God done for me? Calculating minds cannot be devout.Trying to be devout will be just a waste of time, and life.
A devotee is not somebody's devotee. Devotion is a quality. Devotion means a certain single-pointedness -you are constantly focused towards one thing. To such a person, Grace will happen naturally and he becomes receptive. What or whom you are devoted to is not the issue. What you need to know is, God does not exist. But where there is a devotee, God exists.
So the power of devotion is such that it can create the Creator.