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With discrimination such as this do away with the notion of
diversity in self. Then fix your purified mind in Me, who am all
pervading, and desist from everything else.
If you can not fix your mind in Me, then offer up all your
actions unconditionally to Me. Hear with faith the words that relate
to Me. Sing of Me, meditate on my deeds and Incarnations.
Imitate these. Whatever you do, do that for Me. Then will be
gained, O Uddhava, fixed devotion to Me. That devotion (Bhakti)
is to be acquired in the company of Sadhus:
SADHU AND BHAKTI.
SKANDHA XI. CHAP. 11-12.
Uddhava asked:
Who according to Thee is a Sadhu? What sort of Bhakti
(devotion) may be offered to Thee?
Sri Krishna replied:
Compassionate, harmless, forgiving, firm in truth, faultless,
impartial, doing good to all, undisturbed by desires, self restrained,
mild, pure, not asking for anything, indifferent, temperate in eating
with controlled mind, steady in the performance of duties, seeking
refuge in me, given to meditation, careful, profound, patient, having
control over the six-fold waves (hunger, thirst, sorrow and delusion,
infirmity and death), not seeking respect from others, but respecting
others, able, friendly, tender-hearted, wise, such is a Sadhu. He who
knowing my injunctions and prohibitions in the performance of one's
own Dharma or duties of life, even gives them all up for my sake is
the best of all Sadhus. Those who seek me and nothing else, whether
they know or not what I am, are the best of My Bhaktas.
To see, touch and worship My symbols and my votaries, to
serve and adore them, the humble recital of My glory and of My
deeds, Faith in hearing words about Me, constant meditation on Me,
the offering up of all gains to Me, even the offering up of self in a
spirit of service, the observance of the sacred days, rejoicings in the
houses set apart for Me (all good Hindus have a house or room set
apart for divine worship), initiation according to the Vedic and the
Tantric System (one who is initiated is to recite the Mantras a certain
number of times, every morning and evening and he can not take
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