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Shri Datta Swami

Posted on: 02 Jun 2021

               

Is it Nishkaama bhakti when we utter Paahimaam or Rakshamaam in prayers?

[Smt. Anita Renkuntla asked: Swamiji, Paadanamaskaramulu 🙏🙏🙏

I thank You Swami for answering my questions whenever I forwarded You which were clearly explained. Here are a few doubts I have while reading Your discourses or listening to Dattavedam.

We are being taught to do Nishkaama bhakti. It so happens in many troublesome situations that we automatically say," O God save me or protect me" Does it not mean that we are aspiring some help from You? Some bhajans too expresses Paahimaam or Rakshamaam. Please enlighten me if I have misunderstood Nishkaama bhakti.]

Swami replied:- Nishkaama Bhakti is the climax goal to be kept in mind as the ultimate target. If you keep the extreme goal in your view and put efforts towards that, you will at least reach some considerable distance in the forward path. If you keep a normal goal as target, you will go forward a little distance only. Keeping the normal quantum of humanity in view, such songs are expressed by Me. Such songs crying for help from God will attract such seriously stressed devotees. Even though in the beginning, the devotee is attracted to God for some help, the merit is that after all the devotee is attracted to God only and not to some human being. Such merit will improve the attachment to God and in course of time, the devotee develops the detachment from fruit recognising the qualitative devotion. In this way, the devotion becomes two staged in the case of normal human devotees.

 
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