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Gadhada III-28: Falling from the Path of God
Summary
- One falls from the bhakti of God by two types of understandings:
- By understanding God’s forms to be false from listening to scriptures by shushka-Vedāntis.
- By offering bhakti to God believing that one will enjoy pleasures of the panchvishays in God’s abode.
- By maintaining this type of understanding, the jiva does not fall from bhakti:
- By understanding that God is all-blissful, whereas the pleasures derived from the panchvishays have only a slight fraction of the bliss of God.
- By understanding that compared to the bliss of the abode of God, the pleasures of the other realms are like narak.
- If one establishes conviction of God and the Sant without eradicating their deficiencies, then one may fall back from Satsang.
- One who has realised the immense greatness of God:
- Will not harbour egotism, jealousy, and anger.
- Behaves as a servant of servants.
- No matter how much he is insulted, he cannot abandon the company of God and the Sant.
- If a devotee of God was placed on a shuli due to some karma of his, and if Shriji Mahārāj was standing next to him; yet if the devotee does not wish to be relieved of that misery, but instead bears the hardships, then God becomes extremely pleased with him.
- Only a person who does not believe the panchvishays to be his lifeline experiences God’s bliss; only he is able to indulge in it; and only he attains it.
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