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DEVOTION
We are talking in terms of getting into oneness with the Master, which has nothing to do with artha, kama or dharma, those three approaches are entirely different. Once we say we have come out of it, the adi bhoutika aspect of it and then we talk about the adi daivika concept of it, that is the worst problems we have got. In India that is our basic problem. Are we talking about a transient God, or an imminent God. Are we talking about the para or the antaryami. Ultimately it is the same God who is expressing himself in both the places but the approach is entirely different or are we asking for God with ashes smeared on his forehead, i.e. the various incarnations or in the vyuhas that is the cosmic order maintenance, which God are you seeking and to whom are you devoted. What exactly you want, this is a bit different from amurti, amurti bhavana is a concept where we are not having a murti but a cosmic principle in action, it is not a transcended para. The amurti bhavana, that is there is a power above me which is controlling the entire universe, samavarti concept, are we devoted to that or are we having the murti. A person who is going to
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