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સાચી ભક્તિમાં નથી વૈરાગ્ય, ત્યાગ, 

હા, ઓજસનો જરૂર તેજસ્વી પ્રકાશ

ને અંદરૂની નિરંતર સમર્પણ ભાવ.

ઠોસ ઉદ્દેશે ભળે મન-મતિ-દેહ-પ્રાણ.

સાચી ભક્તિ, મોકળાં કરે છે માપ

સદંતર બાહ્ય આડંબર ને દેખાવ

જીવનસરણીમાં બે ધારો વ્યવહાર-

માંથી હવે સાચુકલો નર્યો અંતરિયાળ.

સાચી ભક્તિ એટલે જ દમનવિનાશ.

જબરજસ્તીનો સ્વ પ્રતિકાર કે વિરાગ

કે નથી હવે જરૂરી જતાવાતો આચાર

અભિગમે વસે ભક્તિમય મંત્રોચ્ચાર.

સાચી ભક્તિ ભરી તાકત અપ્રમાણ.

આંતરિક મજબૂતી દેતી હર પળ અપાર

અસીમિત પ્રવૃત્તિમય જીવનીએ ડોકાય

ઉર્જામય આવર્તનો અંદરથી બહાર છલકાય.

'મોરલી'

સપ્ટેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૮

A devotion that keeps concentrated and silent in the depths of the heart but manifests in acts of service and obedience, is more powerful, more true, more divine, than any shouting and weeping devotion.

Sincere devotion is much more effective than the Ganges water.

Worship: the form or outer expression of your devotion.

True worship: total and constant without demand or exigence.

True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya.
26 April 1937

* Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition,

Volume 14, pp. 103-112

The nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship, self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union.

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent.

In the way of ahaitukī bhakti, everything can be made a means – poetry and music, for instance, become not merely poetry and music and not merely even an expression of Bhakti, but themselves a means of bringing the experience of love and Bhakti.

These are the exaggerations made by the mind taking one side of Truth and ignoring the other sides. The inner bhakti is the main thing and without it the external becomes a form and mere ritual, but the external has its place and use when it is straightforward and sincere.

What is meant by bāhyapūjā [external worship]? If it is purely external, then of course it is the lowest form; but if done with the true consciousness, it can bring the greatest possible completeness to the adoration by allowing the body and the most external consciousness to share in the spirit and act of worship.

the deeper the emotion, the more intense the Bhakti, the greater is the force for realisation and transformation. It is oftenest through intensity of emotion that the psychic being awakes and there is an opening of the inner doors to the Divine.

* LETTERS ON YOGA Volume 2. Part 2

7. Sadhana through Love and Devotion

Flower Name: Aegle marmelos
Bael tree, Bengal quince

Significance: Devotional attitude
Modest and self-effacing, it yields remarkable fruit.