Real
love knows no barriers since it’s a matter of heart. The real love
is not constrained to a specific person or sect or community neither
it constrains lover with any boundaries. After digging out dirt of
selfish pursuit’s stream of such love flows endlessly and the
creeper of such love germinates from the fertile field of heart and
it spreads without any ambits encompassing every possible space and
bearing fruits which surpass the taste of the nectar and these fruits
infuses anybody who taste them, with similar capacity to love.
I am
sure you would be wondering what type of love is this. And what are
these fruits? How does one get it? The great scriptures describe seed
of such amazing fruit bearing creeper as Bhakti Lata Bija. This seed
is sown in the heart of a person who has already well cultivated this
creeper. And the fruit of this tree is called as Bhakti. Bhakti is
art of pleasing God and science of elevation to spiritual sky by
keeping our thoughts,words and actions favorably disposed for the
cause of Supreme. Bhakti or devotion to supreme has capacity to
satisfy our all desires to love and to be loved.
Srila
Prabhupada says the process of Bhakti is sublime and easy. It is
sublime, since it directly puts one in contact with transcendence.
Moreover, it is easy, since any neophyte can practice it in any given
time, place and circumstance. In Bhakti, the spirit or bhava is more
important than the thing we do. The process of bhakti is
nonsectarian, since it incorporates identifying ourselves in
relationship with Supreme divine truth and acting on the plane of
that identification by taking guidelines from the revealed scriptures
of any bonafide faith in the world. The term ‘bhakti’ can only be
used for the relationship between the living entities and the supreme
truth; since that relationship is unaffected by the destroying factor
of time unlike any other relationship of this world. Bhakti not only
allows, but also encourages relationship in this world, based on the
platform of that original relationship with supreme. The more
selfless attitude we have in these actions, more is the level of
purity of our Bhakti. And more the level of purity of Bhakti, more
contentment we find in our hearts. Scriptures state such pure bhakti
has capacity to satisfy our ever-increasing desire to love and
experience the bliss of being loved by someone.
In
Bhakti, “why’s” are more important than “what’s”. However
great a thing we may do, if it is driven to satisfy our ego then it
is not Bhakti. However, simple and small a thing we may do, if it is
done for sheer pleasure of the supreme Lord, then it is Bhakti.
One may
be a business magnet, or sport star in limelight, or a supermodel on
ramp. In the process of bhakti, there are no barriers. (check out
such examples from below site with so many articles and link
containing my own in specific :))
One may
be a dedicated monk living in monastery and taking the serious
responsibility of enlightening others and offering one’s body mind
words as a token of gratitude for what he is receiving from past
sages in his tradition, and his beloved Lord. (find out how such life
is possible on
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