Devotion
to God is not to be calculated on the basis of the
institutions one has started or helped, the temples one has
built or renovated, the donations one has given, nor does
it depend on the number of times one has written or recited
the Names of the Lord, or the time and energy one spent in
the worship of Lord. These are not vital - they are not even
secondary! Devotion is Divine Love, unsullied by any tinge
of desire for the benefit that flows from it or the fruit
or consequence of that love. Love knows no particular
reason for its manifestation. Divine Love is akin to the
love of the river for the sea, the creeper for the tree,
the spring for the cliff down which it flows. It is an
unchanging loving attitude, a desirable bent of the mind,
standing steady through joy and grief, ever sweet - in good
times and bad!
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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