Vachanamrut Essence
Gadhadā III-6
- One who wants to please God:
- Should not offer bhakti to please others [displaying it to others] or out of jealousy of someone.
- Should offer bhakti only for the sake of one’s liberation.
- To blame the indriyas and antahkaran when one commits a mistake while offering bhakti is the foolishness of the jiva.
- The jiva and the mind are mutual friends, because the mind never entertains thoughts of things that the jiva does not like.
- One should develop intense hatred for adharma arising from one’s mind or by some other person, so one’s mind or the other person will not attempt to persuade him again.
- If a devotee offers bhakti to God with this understanding, the evil influence of some non-believer or his own mind will not be able to affect him.
