Thursday, January 16, 2020

Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam (Introduction - excerpt)


True bhakti or devotion is the perfectly non-dual love that we should each have for our own real self or essential being.

   In other words, in order to succeed in our efforts to know our real self and thereby to surrender our false individual self, we must be consumed by overwhelming love for our own true self-conscious being. True bhakti or devotion is therefore the perfectly non-dual love that we should each have for our own real self or essential being. 
As Sri Bhagavan says in verse 9 of Upadesa Undiyar and verse 15 of Upadesa Tanippakkal
By the strength of [such ananya] bhava [the attitude or conviction that God is not other than ourself], being [abiding or remaining] in sat-bhava [our natural state of being], which transcends [all] bhavana [imagination, thinking or meditation], is alone para-bhakti tattva [the true state of supreme devotion]. 
Since God exists as atma [our own real self or essential being], atma-anusandhana [self-contemplation or self-attentiveness] is parama-isabhakti [supreme devotion to God].



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