How do you practice devotion?

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Anybody want to ask any questions, you can ask it.  Yes? Okay, welcome.

Q: Maharaj, what is devotion, how do you practice devotion?

Maharaj: Yes, good question.

You have to involve yourself. After knowing the Reality, you have to involve yourself, you have to concentrate.  Concentrate on the Concentrator, the Invisible Concentrator within you, the Invisible Listener within you.

Through words we are trying to identify ourself.  We have created language, and through this language we are trying to identify ourself. Through devotion you can identify the Deity within you.  Your Spontaneous Presence is a Deity, it is God, Ultimate Truth, Brahman, Atman, Paramatman, God, not separate from you.  This happens because we are all the time measuring: ‘I am somebody else’, ‘I am man or woman’, or something else.  You are not man or woman you are Brahman, Atman, Paramatman, God, Master.  It’s fact, but you are not accepting the facts.

So many questions appear upon your Presence, body-based questions. So all questions will be solved the moment you identify yourself in a real sense. It’s open fact, forget about spirituality.  Even if you think intellectually, body is not your identity at all. After leaving the body what remains? What is knowledge? Who requires knowledge? Who wants knowledge? Who wants peacefulness? What is peacefulness, what is happiness?  Body-knowledge is not tolerable, therefore we want happiness.

There are three concepts for happiness:  publicity, money, and sex.  We are trying to extract happiness through these three elements.  These things are not there prior to beingness. After leaving the body, who wants all these things?

There are so many concepts!  ‘Karma’, ‘dharma’, ‘religion’, so many things.  ‘Destiny’, ‘earlier birth’, ‘future birth’ – nothing is there, absolutely it is illusion.  But since childhood, because of long association with the body we’ve accepted so many concepts, body-related concepts.  “I am somebody else”.  That ‘I am somebody else’ is supposed to be dissolved.

You’re nobody, you’re everybody. You’re Presence is everywhere just like space or sky.  After having Spontaneous Conviction, all concepts will be dissolved, all questions will be solved within you. I said to you: You’re not a beggar, you’re a multimillionaire.  We’re begging “Oh God bless me, Oh, somebody bless me”, “Put your hand on my head”, why?  Because you’re always neglecting your Selfless Self.  Accepting some happiness or blessing from somebody else.  Okay, you respect everybody. But there should be Spontaneous Conviction: I was not the body, I’m not the body, I’m not going to remain the body. It’s Reality, but you’re not accepting that Reality because ego is there, so-called mind is there, intellect is there. These are functional organs.  Where was that mind prior to beingness? After leaving the body mind remains? Nothing. Any ego is there? No. Any intellect? No.  Mind, ego, intellect, needs, requirements came along with the body only, and dissolve along with the body.