"Man' ignorance does not allow him to love God for the sake of love! It has become a deal! Man worships God in return for some favour or other! He prays to God saying that he will do this and that if his wish is granted! In other words it is conditional love! This can be called as ' kamya karma'There is no pure love in these prayers! Though God is ready to give every thing and expects love for the sake of love, very rarely we find the common man praying with pure love! It is said that even for doing that God's grace is needed! Pure love for God is otherwise called Bhakti. A true devotee lives with God, eats with god, sleeps with God and his every act is with God and dedicated to God! He has none else to depend upon! God is every thing to him! He does not ask for wealth and riches or wife and children or fame or renown or any other thing in life! He desires union with god or serve mankind as the reflection of God! The Azwars, Nayanmars in the South, the sants and saints in the North are brilliant examples of true devotion or bhakthi which is selfless to the extreme! Kulasekhara Azwar in his ' Mukunda Mala' says the very same idea! " nastha dharme na vasucha nichye naiva kamopabhoge yad yad bhavyam bhavathu Bhagavan poorva karmanurupam Ethath prarthyam mama bahumatham janma janmantharepi tvath padambhoruhayugagatha nischala Bhaktirasthu" I do not require dharma,wealth or riches or luxury and sensual life,; I know that every thing happens as per one's karma! But kindly grant me the bhakthi at your lotus feet" This is the ultimate surrender to God! When that happens God takes over all the Bhaktha's responsibilities as we see in the lives of the great saints & devotees!!"
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