Thought for the Day

When you worship with fixity of consciousness and purity of feeling, free of all extraneous thought, that itself becomes mental union with the Divine (bhava-samadhi). As a result of this union, the Lord appears before the inner eye of the devotee in the form that the devotee has chosen for worship. The vision is not merely a matter of imagination; it is a ‘face-to-face’ experience. Without changing location, the devotee can abide in the presence of the Lord in the self-same place. This is called, ‘being always with God - salokya-mukti’. Besides being always with the Lord, devotees realise all that they see as the glory of the Lord. The experience of ‘seeing always the glory of the Lord’ is samipya-mukti. Existing ever with the Lord, witnessing always the glory of the Lord, and becoming suffused with God-consciousness is merger in the divine form - sarupya-mukti. This is the final fruit of devotional scriptures.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba