Ananya-Bhakti: Dance of Love
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-07-08

This series is classified Viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda | Bhakti-yoga | Svapna | Anāhata-cakra
Duality and Nonduality: The flickering mind is constantly fluctuating between varying degrees of nondual Self-attentiveness and inversely proportionate degrees of dualistic thinking. Therefore, our love for Being correspondingly fluctuates between expression as nondual Self-love and its expression as dualistic love for God. 

Therefore in the life of any realized being, the nondual love for Self and the dualistic love for God will be intimately mixed, intertwined and blended, because in essence these two forms of love are both forms of the same single love just to Be. 

The intermingling of these two forms of a devotee’s love for Being is beautifully expressed by Śrī Bhagavān in his devotional verses. Some of these verses are very clear expressions of our nondual love for our essential Being, while others appear to be expressions of love for God as a seemingly separate supreme power of love, Grace and compassion. 

However, most of these verses can be interpreted as an expression of either the nondual form of love or the dualistic form of love, depending upon our state of mind as we read, sing or meditate upon them. 

Through his devotional verses Śrī Bhagavān has taught us by example how we must depend entirely upon God both in our external life, when our mind is active, and in our internal life, when our mind subsides into the depth of our true Being. 

When our minds are turned outwards, we must depend upon God as the all-loving power of Grace, which is constantly reminding us of the need to turn inwards. And when our minds are turned inwards, we depend upon God as the same all-loving power of Grace, which shines within us as the peace and joy of our silent Being. This bliss of Self-love draws our mind ever deeper within by its irresistible power of natural attraction. 

Power of Prayer: Whenever our natural state of peace is disturbed by the rising of thoughts impelled by our deep-rooted desires, we can calm that agitation by praying to God or guru in the manner in which Śrī Bhagavān has shown us in many of these verses, which are heart-melting prayers for His Grace. 

The importance of prayer as a tool in the practice of Self-investigation and Self-surrender is exemplified by Śrī Bhagavān in his devotional verses. Of course God does not need us to tell Him that we require His help—but that is not the true purpose of prayer. The purpose of prayer is to kindle in our heart a sense of total dependence upon God. 

The individual mind cannot surrender and attain the state of Being merely by its own effort. We must depend entirely upon God, because He alone can enable us to surrender ourself completely to Him. This is the importance of dualistic devotion and prayer in the process of subsiding into the true state of absolutely nondual Self-knowledge. 

Creation:
 • Imaginary ignorance (Śiva)
 • Yin/Yang (complementaries)
    • Rotation
    • Vibration
    • Vortexes
 • Fake matter
 • Bodies
 • Name-&-form, etc.

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