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Ananya Bhakti (when the attention is unified)

 Week 27, chapter 9, shloka 29-35

 

If you ask me how I am? I am uniform in all the elements and all the beings. I do not differentiate between mine and yours. And those who know me like this and are detached with their ego, dwell in this world in their bodies but attention on me and I dwell in them. And they are indifferent with their bodies as one is indifferent with the borrowed ornaments.

They may belong to any caste, and can be the most sinful ones, but if they offer their pure devotion towards me after being bathed in the river of repentance, and with a pure heart worship me- come to me. Those who have been sinful in their previous lives but devote themselves to me in this life – I purify them and their whole clan of their sins and bless them with oneness with me. And you might ask if such devotees become like me after they die- but I say, they cannot die as they are soaked in elixir. Until the attention is in union with me only then one can attain oneness with me. Such beings are blessed with my state, aura, and peace.

May be less in intellect, may be born in worst of the clans – may or may not have heard of any scriptures, but if all they seek is me, they dwell in the world and manifest me. 

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