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to do bhakti.
Dadashri : Do you know the God whose bhakti you are
doing at the moment? Where does he live? How tall is he? How
many children does he have? Do you know if he performed the
religious rite on the twelfth day after his mother’s death?
Questioner : Without bhakti how am I going to realize
God?
Dadashri : You have been around for countless lives. In
which life have you not done bhakti? For countless lives you
have done indirect (paroksha) bhakti, without knowing God.
You do not achieve anything by doing that. You keep doing
pilgrimages. Do you think that God is waiting for you in these
places of pilgrimage?
The whole world is entangled in this web. All the saints
and the likes of them are all entangled and such people wander
from street to street, some wander in the jungles and some go
to the Himalayas, but God (the manifested Soul) is only with the
Gnani. There is nothing but interferences (dakho) in all other
places. If you do not realize the Self from the Gnani in this
human life form, then there is no alternative because elsewhere
there is interference in all other places. Ask for whatever you
want; here there are talks for the final destination; the ultimate
liberation (moksha).
Bhakti and Liberation
Questioner : Does a person have to do bhakti in order
to be liberated?
Dadashri : Bhakti helps one acquire the tools for the
path of liberation. Bhakti of the vitarag Lords is only for
liberation. If the person who is giving satsang has any kind of
need or desire, interacting with him will not give you liberation.
Such a satsang may help to attain a life in the celestial world. For
moksha, one needs the satsang with someone who has no desire