Passage 15

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In plain words

There is nothing at all beyond that Bhakti. Bhakti is greater than Jñāna. Without Bhakti, what is the use of having Jñāna? However much Jñāna they have, they can describe God, but without Bhakti they cannot experience Him. Vyāsa was a man of great Jñāna. Vyāsa, with all that Jñāna, was overtaken by unrest. So he then wrote the Bhāgavatam and went on growing in Bhakti.

The sense of ‘mine’ is the difference; Prema is equal vision

In today's world there are fondness and possessiveness. A small example. A man was raising a hen. He was raising a cat too. One day the cat he had raised ate the hen. That day he chased the cat and chased it and beat it. ‘You killed the hen, such a valuable thing!’ he says, beating the cat. The same cat the next day caught a rat and killed it, in that same house. ‘The cat has done a very good deed,’ he says, and is delighted. That is, when it kills what he dislikes, he is happy. When it kills the hen he likes, he grieves. What is the difference between these two? The sense of ‘mine’ is the difference. What is joined with the sense of ‘mine’ is not equal vision. Prema is equal vision. The divinity in the cat, in the rat and in the hen is one and the same! The Gopīs joyfully experienced this feeling. ‘Ekaṃsat viprāḥ bahudhā vadanti.’ Each one may call it by a different name. There is only One! They proclaimed this Satya. He gave Rādhā His darśan and played the flute. Having given her fulfilment, from that day He gave up the flute.