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God-das (Bhagwandas). God is an adjective; just as fortunate
(bhagyavan) came from the word fortune (bhagya); from the
word Godlike (bhagwat) came the term God (Bhagwan).
These are God-like qualities and so this adjective applies to any
man who attains them.
‘I am Chandulal’ is the wrong state (apad), it is the state
which leads to death (maranpad). He who sits in the wrong state
(apad) and does bhakti is a bhakta and ‘I am Shuddhatma’ is
the state of the Self (swapad). He, who sits in the state of the
Self and does bhakti of the Self, is God.
Day and night this A. M. Patel is constantly absorbed in
the bhakti of ‘Dada Bhagwan’ who has manifested within and he
bows thousand times a day to this Lord within.
As long as one has not fully attained the Self (become fully
enlightened) he should constantly feel, ‘the Gnani Purush verily
is my Self. Devotion to the Gnani is devotion of the Self within.
What is the nature of devotion? One becomes that which he is
worshipping. In the bhakti of the Gnani Purush lies the highest
of kirtan bhakti. When does kirtan bhakti arise? Kirtan bhakti
arises when not a single thought of disgrace arises, when no
matter how negative everything is, you see positive in it. There
is never anything negative in the Gnani Purush. There is no effort
in kirtan bhakti and tremendous energies arise through kirtan
bhakti.
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