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purifying the intelligence. The second is of action, of service. And the third is of devotion, of love, of the heart. The path of action is body-oriented, the path of knowledge is mind-oriented, and the path of devotion is heart-oriented
You have to concentrate on the heart. You have to forget the body and the mind; you have to remember the heart more and more. Be filled by the heartbeat, because it is not only your heartbeat: it is the heartbeat of the eternal. It is god's heartbeat. Listening to your own heartbeat, by and by you Will start hearing the heartbeat of the universe too.
Love has to be evolved as much as possible. Accumulating knowledge won't help you but pouring yourself into love Will transform you. That's going to be your alchemy, so forget everything else. Focus all your energies on love. For twenty-four hours, remain mindful of love -- whatsoever you are doing. Even in cleaning the floor, one can do it with great love and devotion as if one is washing the very feet of god. When watering the trees one can do it lovingly, one can do it indifferently; one can do it almost full of hatred.
Each act can be transformed by love, and unless and until all your acts are transformed and transfused with love you will not know that god exists. No argument can prove it -- only the experience of love. One day suddenly you know god is. Not that you have come to it as a logical conclusion but that your heart has felt it; it has become an experience. Then the whole world can go on saying there is no god; .that won't affect you. Nobody can take that experience away from you. You know in the deepest core of your being that god is, that only god is, that nothing else is... that you are not and god is.
Anand means bliss and bhagwata means a divine poem... divine poetry, a divine song.... And bliss is the divine song. It happens in you, it happens through you, but it comes from god; it is not from you. It descends on you, it filters through you, but it is not from you. Whenever you are blissful something of the divine is penetrating you... whatsoever the excuse. You may be seeing a full moon and you feel blissful, or you may be listening to
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