the third kind of devotee krishna says who are looking towards me are the jigna now this is a
nice sanskrit word why bother i'll give you the simple english meaning the nosey parkers
they say lord we are not sure whether you are for real or not we are just investigating you
so we are crying looking left right center are you for real or my lord let me check you out
inside out now the lord says you want to test me and check me out check me out i am the reality
that underpins this world that you experience you're welcome to check me out nothing wrong
so the third devotee devotee looks for answers and is trying to you know fulfill his inquisition
krishna says let them come too but the fourth kind of devotee says krishna who is dearest you
see this is a star devotee the fourth kind of devotee who is that who i love the most
gets the highest marks are those devotees who do not worship me because they want something from me
they don't worship because they are in distress they don't worship me because
they want to fulfill their inquisition or their inquiring mind the reason why they worship me
is because they cannot help themselves they are in love with me for who i am
they don't want anything from me they just want me ah
analyze ourselves and see do we love god for the sake of god think about it how difficult it is
the superior devotees and this is what we aim to do you see he's our real father and mother
we must get to him not because you want something from him but he's our nearest and dearest one
let's grab him let's catch him in fact do you know your your main prayer the gaia three what
it means most people don't know they're readily talk but they don't have no idea what it means
the gayatri in a way recognizes the different pathways of reaching out to spirituality let me
just show you how simply presents it most people when i ask what's the meaning of this ability to
look it up in the book there are so many meanings i said but give me one oh no we'll check it out
they have no clue the simplistic simple meaning that we give to the guy that we ask our youngsters
to memorize this as follows and you see how this particular guy already reflects different pathways
of relating to god many pathways to god the gayatri says let us meditate on that glorious
effulgence who has created the universe may she enlighten our hearts and direct our understanding
this is the stopping heart of the hindu religion in one prayer look the key words are
meditate one pathway the two faculties that we possess as human beings let us direct
them both not to us something from god but to grab god catch god what are the two faculties
our heart and our head we want our heart to be drawn through the love and devotion
become naturally if you like enlightened in search for god we want our intellect to turn
towards the idea of spirituality and turn towards god our heart our head our meditative powers we
will use all this to come closer to god see just one prayer encapsulates the many pathways to god
so the path of devotion is the most natural one because it just simply asks you to remove the
clutter that is blocking your view of the world and devotion will spring up very naturally it will
draw you we don't have to put any effort that is why majority of hindus like the path of devotion
it is most natural the second pathways that the hindus promote is the path of karma path of
action now one of us will say we are actively by you know we go in the morning work hard earn
a lot of money to pay the bills send the children to disney world and of course we go with them too
surely we are at dave what are you saying path of action we are on it don't worry we will find god
ah but krishna says there is one big difference in the way you are doing action in the way i want you
to do action look at the power of this teaching it says be active don't be lazy don't sit back
first requirement action is better than inaction be active definitely for whatever you want to do
but then comes the caveat it says the way you turn action into the path of if you like the path of
finding god is not to just act for the benefit of yourself and your little family you your wife
and your little but you it is necessary to act for the greater good for the greater benefit
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