Please explain the following statement by Jiddu Krishna Murthy.

[Smt. Lakshmi Lavanya K asked: "When the mind is no longer seeking, no longer breeding, conflict through its wants and cravings, when it is silent with understanding, only then can the immeasurable come into being." Jiddu Krishna Murthy, Commentaries on Living, 1st Series. Please explain.]

Swami replied:- All these comments become unnecessary once the attraction on God reaches climax. All the positive effects appear immediately and there is no need for any effort to be put up to develop positive effects to please God. The complete attraction on God is the climax of devotion in which all the positive results appear spontaneously without a trace of effort. Even if maximum efforts are put, the positive results do not appear or may appear as traces only. But, when complete attraction develops towards the divine personality of God, even without a trace of effort, the positive results in climax appear. Hence, the single effort must be concentrated on developing the attraction to the divine personality of God and this is called as devotion. The attraction to the divine personality of God comes from the details of the personality of God that are projected through spiritual knowledge. Hence, full concentration must be put on the true spiritual knowledge, which generates the theoretical attraction or theoretical devotion. This finally leads to the practical devotion, which is the proof for the climax of theoretical devotion. The practical devotion alone yields the final fruit which is pleasing God with true love and this is the end of the spiritual journey.

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