Vachanamrut Essence
Gadhadā I-61
- With ātmā-realisation, one remains stables in dualities of cold and heat, hunger and thirst, honour and insult, happiness and misery; but only refuge of God and firmness in upāsanā are helpful at the time of death.
- What kind of devotee does God become bound to?
- Even if he attains Yogic powers, he desires nothing except God and remains free of worldly desires – such an ekāntik bhakta.
- One who has unparalleled devotion to God like King Bali.
- He offered everything to God with shraddhā.
- God bound him without any fault of his own; yet King Bali did not falter from his bhakti.
- One who remains as a servant of God.
- One who becomes increasingly pleased as God imposes more and more hardships without becoming disheartened in the face of misery or for the sake of bodily comforts.
