Devotion & Dissolution

People say, “He’s gifted.” 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 ways through which one earns. But the simplest way, the easiest is devotion. What is Grace? 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. Calculating minds cannot be devout. A devotee is not somebody’s devotee; devotion is a quality. Devotion means a certain single-pointedness. 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. Thinking minds always have an allergy to devotion, because devotees have made such fools of themselves. This is simply because fear is passing off as devotion. Only when devotion arises, there is depth. Knowing devotion just as an emotion, may be makes your life a little sweet; devotion, however, means dissolution. The root word for ‘devotion’ is ‘dissolve’. One who is willing to dissolve himself can be a true devotee. In what and how is not the point


Source: Economic Times, 23/09/2019