Can we stop learning Spiritual knowledge after getting devotion?

[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Swami, You said that Spiritual Knowledge is important to generate devotion towards God. Can we stop learning Spiritual knowledge after getting devotion?]

Swami replied:- There is no end for love or devotion. It is an endless ocean. So where is the question of saying “After getting devotion”? As the knowledge of God increases step by step, the devotee will be developing more and more love. One shall enter practical devotion and this does not mean that after finishing theoretical devotion, one shall enter practical devotion like entering post graduate course after finishing the bachelor’s degree! Even in a Post graduate degree, you must have heard from a good professor saying that he is always a student learning continuously! All the three stages (knowledge, theoretical devotion and practical devotion) are simultaneous and when all these three become perfectly ripened, the divine fruit is given by God Himself provided you don’t aspire for it. To a certain extent, we say that knowledge (information about the details of God) generates attraction towards Him (devotion) that spontaneously results in practical devotion. In the initial stage, this sequence is alright. But, in advanced stage, all these three go side by side. The sequence of these three stages is valid in the beginning stage up to a certain distance of spiritual journey.

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