Re: Aham Brahmasmi
Pranam Atanu ji
As I said before I have no desire to derail this thread, we can play with words as much as we want and it is very easy to get mislead or misread what is intended, that is the power of vak. I know there was no service in the verse I quoted yet service is not devoid in a bhakta.
I only intervened because of what I perceived to be an attack on bhakti, that the followers are in ignorance. Which you have since qualified as not the case. Bhakti and gyan are not mutually exclusive, we will always stress either, depending on what colour glass we are wearing.
For a gyani bhakti is a stepping stone where else for a bhakta merging is not an option, gaining bhakti is the final emancipation.
mac-citta mad-gata-prana
bodhayantah parasparam
kathayantas ca mam nityam
tusyanti ca ramanti ca
yoginam api sarvesam
mad-gatenantar-atmana
sraddhavan bhajate yo mam
sa me yuktatamo matah.
I offer no translation bg 10.9 and 6.47
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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