Chapter 18 verse 55
“Only by loving devotion to me does one come to know who I am in truth. Then, having come to know me, my devotee enters into full consciousness of me.”
It
is said that Sage Veda Vyasa was morose with a deep void after compiling and
editing the Vedas, Brahmasutras, mahabharatam and sage Narada implored him to
immerse in the act of deep devotion to the Divine and write the Srimad
Bhagavatam. As stated in the previous verse, Adi Shankara eventually resorted
to surrender to the Divine and Bhakti in his final years after being an epitome
of karma yoga and jnana yoga. Bhagawan in this verse states that without that loving
devotion to Him, the personal form of the Divine is not revealed and a void is
left in the devotee and that supreme bliss is missed. This is not an either or
situation but when one realizes thyself, all paths lead only to Him and Him
alone. You can replace the Him with Her if your personal form of the Divine is
a female. However, Supreme cannot be caged in a form or formless, He or She,
Human or any other creation or even limited to one Universe or multi-verses. It
is limitless, bottomless ocean of love for everything and everyone in whole
wide Universe.
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