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Bhakti is nod-dualistic
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Subject: Bhakti is nod-dualistic
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From: p.mattsson@nesterc.neste.fi (pontus mattsson)
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:31:36 GMT
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From news@nesterc.neste.fi Thu Apr 20 08: 34:55 1995
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Having read the Narada Bhakti Sutras my conclusion is that his view of
Bhakti is essentially non-dual. Please comment.
He says:
#2. Bhakti is intense love for God
#3. In it's intrinsic nature this Divine love is immortal Bliss.
This would mean that
- your love is Divine / comes from the Divine (you as ego cannot claim it)
- this love is one since the Divine is one
- this love is Brahman since it is imortal Bliss
Questions:
Without any love of its own, can the ego be in existence ?
If it exists can it be other than Brahman (the alternative seems horrible)?
I think Narada underlines this in sutra #30:
"Narada says that spiritual realization is its own fruit"
This beatiful recursive definition tells us that love is the path, love
is truth, and love is the final goal that is God that is the Self that already is.
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Here is Thy knowledge here is Thy ignorance
take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee
Here is Thy purity here is thy impurity
take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee
Here is thy virtue, here is thy vice
take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee
Here is thy dharma, here is thy adharma,
take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee
to Mother Kali - freely after Ramakrishna
