March, Thursday 12th., 2020
Today's Thought for the Day
12 Mar 2020
What is the real characteristic of true devotion? Bhagawan endearingly guides us today.
Today's Thought for the Day
12 Mar 2020
What is the real characteristic of true devotion? Bhagawan endearingly guides us today.
Devotion
is not wearing an ochre cloth or organising festivals or performing
ritual sacrifices or shaving the hair or carrying water pot or rod or
matting the hair, etc. The Lord will never judge you at any time on the
basis of the religion or caste you belong or the precepts you
traditionally follow. The real characteristics of true devotion are: (1)
Having a pure mind (anthah-karana) (2) Uninterrupted
contemplation on God, whatever be your profession in daily living (3)
The feeling that everything is the Lord’s creation and therefore One (4)
Acceptance of all with equal love (5) Non-attachment to sense objects,
and (6) Practicing true speech. Whoever you are, in whatever condition
you may be, if you do not give room for dispiritedness, if you have no
fear at all, and if you remember the Lord with unshaken faith and
without any ulterior motive, all your suffering and sorrow will surely
fall away!
- Prema Vahini, Ch 61