God Worship || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 There is nothing higher than devotion at all.
00:02 The problem is not with devotion, the problem is not with bhakti, the problem is with the
00:06 nonsense that is practiced in the name of bhakti.
00:09 Most of these youngsters in the name of devotion, they are practicing nonsense.
00:14 Devotion is profound and beautiful, but nonsense is not.
00:16 Bhakti is wonderful, but that which you are doing is not bhakti, it is something else.
00:21 Devotion is when first of all you decide that I will not respect mind stuff, correct?
00:26 If you are respecting mind stuff, that is desire, not devotion.
00:29 If you say I am devoted to something and that something that you are devoted to is arising
00:34 from within the mind, then is that devotion or is that desire?
00:37 So that is what is happening in the name of bhakti.
00:39 In most of the places where devotion is practiced, what they are actually practicing is desire.
00:45 In most places where they say that we are worshipping somebody in a devoted way, what
00:51 they are actually worshipping is the ego.
00:54 So in the name of worshipping the Lord, they are actually worshipping their own ego and