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What is Real Devotion?
We are always talking of love and devotion. Devotion means, to my
mind, perfect performance of your duty. Therefore devotion is
duty, perfect duty is devotion. Now, if I am devoted to my Master, it
means perfection in the performance of the duty He has given to me,
or which I have voluntarily accepted from Him, as nearly perfect as
possible, growing in perfection. Now people ask, "How can something
grow in perfection?" Well, every agriculturist knows that you have
a perfect seed. You prepare a place to plant it as perfectly as you
can. You have a perfect sapling, you have the possibility of a perfect
fruit. We start with the seed. At each stage it is perfect. It is a
growing perfection. It is a changing perfection, yet it is perfection
which doesn't change. The object into which that perfection is put or
associated with may change, but the perfection by itself doesn't change.
Therefore you can have a perfect diamond, a perfect piece of coal, a
perfect seaweed. Anything is perfect. Philosophy says everything is
perfect, because the Creator did not make anything imperfect. Now we
are dealing with what the Creator felt was a perfect creation. And when
we blame creation and say, "This is stupid, that is futile, this
is ugly," we are criticizing the Creator. No mother likes to be
criticized about her baby. You try telling a mother that her baby is
stupid or ugly. She is worse than a tigress! So it is very true. I have
tried it very often just for fun, to see the reaction! It is always
the same reaction. "How dare you say my baby is this and this and
this!" We have a saying in Tamil that, "To the crow, its baby
is a golden baby." Every mother's child is perfect.
Therefore when we clean, we are removing these imperfections, and here
in Sahaj Marg the perfection also, because the law says, "You cannot
get rid of the duality of existence. You cannot remove imperfection
and leave perfection behind." You take both or you leave both.
Therefore when we take away all that is in you which is not created
by Him, then remains that which He created, which is the perfect. So
here there is no good, there is no bad, there is only the idea of perfection.
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