Bhakti - Devotion

The fourth, important and ultimate technique is bhakti (devotion) towards the eternal and unchanging energy. You can call it God, or guru, or Divine; any name you can use for it. Feeling a strong connection towards that unchanging energy is bhakti - devotion.

Understand, there are four techniques to live enlightenment.

One is shakti – expressing the energy to change whatever you can.

Next is buddhi – expressing the intelligence to accept whatever you need not change.

The third is yukti – the understanding that whatever you call as reality, however much you change it, is one more dream, a changing dream.

The fourth one is bhakti – the strong 'feeling of connection' with the unchanging One, with the unchanging reality or eternal Truth. When you feel strongly connected to the unchanging reality, you will experience a feeling of deep security. It can bring a tremendous feeling of security in you. Let me explain how it can bring the feeling of tremendous security in you.

If you think that you are worthy of whatever you have and whatever you are enjoying, you will never fear that it will be taken away from you. You will experience a deep relaxation. You will have the clarity that even if you die this moment, you will take birth in the same kind of ambience again. You will be born and raised in a space where you have all the necessary things available. If you have this clarity, all these things you have now like wealth, intelligence etc, will never be taken away from you.

But if you think that everything you have with you now has just happened to you, like your wealth, your intelligence, then you will live in constant fear that any moment it can be taken away from you.

You will not enjoy what you have. For example, when you sit in the car, you will have a thought: 'Who knows when an accident may happen? Who knows, not only the car, even my life may be taken

away from me?' When you think like this, even when you have everything, you will not be able to enjoy them. Instead relax, settle into the feeling of connection to the unchanging One. This feeling of connection happens in different dimensions. It can happen in different aspects of your relationship with the unchanging energy or God. If you feel connected to the form (meaning deity or Master), you are experiencing one aspect of the relationship. If you feel connected to the formless energy, you are experiencing a different aspect of the relationship. Different people feel connected in different ways.