1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darsana Yoga - Sloka 54

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The Message of the Cosmic Form 52-55

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darsana Yoga - Sloka 54 

Bhaktya tu ananyaya shakyah aham evam vidhah arjuna I

Gyantum drashtum cha tad tvena praveshtum cha param tapa II sloka 54

भक्त्या तु अनन्यया शक्यः अहम् एवं विधः अर्जुन I 

ज्ञातुम द्रष्टुम च तद त्वेन प्रवेष्टुम च परम तप II स्लोक ५४  

But by unswerving devotion can I, of this form, be known and seen in reality and also enterd into, O scorcher of foes.

Ananya bhakthi is unswerving devotion. In this state, the sadhaka recognises nothing but Iswara. He makes over his entire being to the Lord. All that he contacts through the senses and the intellect is He. Whatever he does is the Lord's activities.

From the way in which the subordinates and attendants conduct themselves in a palace, the presence of the King can be inferred. One should not be satisfied with that inference. Seeing the king in person is superior to believing in his presence. There is a state greater than seeing the sovereign. Contact and communion with him is what is wanted. Ananya bhakthi takes the devotee through all of these stages in the pursuit of the Lord. He feels first the presence of the divine; he gets the vision of the lord next; then he moves intimately with him until unison is reached. Unswerving devotion provides all these possibilities.

Many have heard of milk. Those who haev seen it are lesser in number. The partakers of milk are lesser still. Even such is the contact of man with God.  A talk arose whether man can see god with his physical eyes. No, he cannot be perceived by fleshy eyes. When bhakthi is practised the sadhaka develops a superior sense organ which has the power to see and hear super mundane things. With that spiritual eye, God is beheld and the devotee is co-mingled with him.