The Lord guides and protects us when we surrender to his will. He bestows his grace to save us from harm. To win grace, however, we must immerse ourselves in God and strive to do his will.

It is God’s word that if you have devotion to God, he will look after all your future. He will look after all the welfare that is due to you.

Summer Showers 1972

To earn God’s full-time protection requires full-time devotion. Many seekers spend little time in prayer, meditation, or service, but they expect God’s grace to flow always in their direction. To earn that protection requires constancy of effort.

In an office, if you work full time, you get full pay. If you work part-time, you get half pay. Today, we show only part-time devotion and we want full-time reward for his part-time devotion. How can we get this?

Summer Showers 1973

Devotion to God must be single-minded for it to be effective. The magnifying glass can ignite a fire because it concentrates the sun’s rays at a single point. Concentrated devotion burns away all obstacles to liberation, even in this lifetime.

Concentration on God with a fragmented mind is an exercise in futility. Single-minded devotion is the easiest path of salvation. In fact, the ananyabhakta (one-pointed devotee) becomes a jivanmukta (one liberated during life).

Summer showers 1979,

The culmination of full-time devotion is seeing God in all things. Then all events and beings are seen in a divine light. Nothing is separate from God, for when we are filled with God, we see only God. Then we know beyond doubt that we have reached the summit of practice. We experienced joy and peace beyond measure.

Bhakti is the state of mind in which one has no separate existence apart from God. His very breath is God; his every act is by God, for God; his thoughts are of God; his words are uttered by God, about God. For like the fish, which can only live in water, man can only live in God --- in peace and happiness.

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