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about it! Hey! Why don’t you just think about where you are
sitting? You will go on thinking about your shop even while you
are walking along. And when they set out to go to the temple,
no one is thinking about religion. They think about their shops
instead. So many people just have a habit of going to the temple
every day. Alas! Is it just out of habit that you go to do the
Lord’s darshan? Every day the darshan of the Lord should feel
new. And at the time of going to do darshan, your fervor and
joy of going there should be as fresh, each time. This going to
the temple for darshan every day, has just become a sort of
habit.
How can you practice dharma? Should one do karma or
dharma the whole day? Only those, whose merit karma
(punya) allows them to do just a couple of hours of work a day,
which they get done in no time, can do dharma and attain it.
Can God Be Attained Through Worship?
Questioner: Can anyone attain God by doing devotional
worship (bhakti)?
Dadashri: You cannot do anything to attain God (Ishwar)
through your five senses. That would be indirect devotion
(paroksh bhakti).
Questioner: Wouldn’t that be kalpanik (of the
imagination) bhakti?
Dadashri: That is all just kalpanik bhakti. And when the
bhakti (worship) becomes nirvikalp (without ego) then your
work gets done. Vikalp worship is done through the mind.
Questioner: I like bhakti (devotional worship) in
everything.
Dadashri: Bhakti is your tuber (granthi; knot). Thoughts
of bhakti, thoughts of darshan, are granthi (tuber). Sooner or
later you will have to become nirgranth (free from tubers;