Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8- Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 22

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Immortality 20-22

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 8 - Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 22

Purushah sa parah partha bhaktya labhyah tu ananya I

Yasya antah sthani bhutani yena sarvam idam tatam II sloka 22

पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यः तु अनन्यया I यस्य अन्तः स्थानि भूतानि येन सर्वं इदं ततं  I I श्लोक 22

That Supreme Purusha, O Partha, is attainable by unswerving devotion to Him alone within whom all beings dwell, by whom all this is pervaded.

Ananya bhakthi  is the devotion of non-separation. It is the outcome of the right understanding of the relationship between the jivatman  and the paramatman. They are interrelated in the way in which the sea and the waves are interrelated. The waves do not have any existence independent of the sea. Similarly jivatman  is no entity apart from paramatman. He who understands this fact cannot help having unswerving devotion to the Lord. When the individuality of the jivatman is forgotten in the absorption in the Lord, it is then the devotion of non-separation.

God is in all beings; but all beings are not in God.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa