B
hakti (Devotional Love)
contains four letters: bha,
ka, ta, and i (pronounced ee). Bha
means fulfillment and nourishment;
ka is a means of knowing; ta means
redeeming, saving, salvation
(tarana); i (ee) is energy, shakti.
Bhakti nourishes you. Bhakti is the right
Knowledge, the means of knowing.
When bhakti is there, doubts don’t
come. Bhakti saves you. Bhakti gives
you the most energy.
Bhakti contains the seed of all these
qualities. All the emotional upheavals
one goes through are because one
doesn’t know Bhakti.A river has two banks that allow water to
flow in a particular direction. In a flood,
water is scattered all over. When your
emotions get flooded everywhere, your
mind is in a mess. When all your intense
feelings flow in one direction, that is most
powerful; that is Bhakti.A sign of intelligence is
bhakti and surrender.