(Continued...)
The major purpose of bhakti is to quell all desires
and get attracted to that Infinite source of Bliss. While that is so, how is it
legitimate for a bhakti-stotra to praise that very deity as One who encouraged
and manouvred the powers that be, to fall in Love? In spite of our reverence to
the Acharya, we have to raise this
question sometimes. The world-view has to disappear in order for Divine Enlightenment
to appear; but here the deity is praised for having engineered the creation of
that world !
Knowledge arises only after all ‘kAma’ (Desire) has
been eradicated; but here She is glorified as having been that very Power who
gave the power to the God of ‘Desire’
for generating Desire. Does it mean,
then, that ‘Desire’ itself is Divine
Grace?
(Continued...)
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