Devotion to God is not to be calculated
on the basis of the institutions one has
started or helped, the temples one has built or renovated,
the donations one has given away, nor does it depend on
the number of times one has written the Name of the Lord
or on the time and energy one has spent in the worship of the Lord.
These are not vital at all, no, not even secondary.
Devotion is Divine Love, unsullied by any tinge
of desire for the benefit that flows from it, or
the fruit or consequence of that love. It is love
that knows no particular reason for its manifestation.
It is of the nature of the love of the soul
for the Oversoul; the river for the sea; the creeper for the tree,
the star for the sky, the spring for the cliff down which it flows.
It is sweet, in bad times as well as good.
It is an unchanging attitude,
a desirable bent of the mind,
standing steady through joy and grief.
divinely sent
