Devotion

Devotion is nothing but love; with maturity. See you love somebody, because you like something in that somebody. Your likes and dislikes always changing. Suppose tomorrow your likes changed, your dislikes changed, and then your love turns into hatred. But when the love matures and doesn't turn into hatred, that love is called devotion. Someone is so devoted to wife means, how much she is, whatever she is, I just am committed to her. That’s devotion.

The first is attraction; just on the physical level. Attraction dies on very fast. On the physical level there is attraction.

The step further on the mental level, there is love. And it is in the mental level - jealousy, possessiveness, hatred all these distortions of love happens. But when you surpass that level, then there comes Devotion. It’s like the love of the mother to her child. Mother doesn't bother what the child thinks and does. You know, the child kicks the mother or screams at the mother; she is not perturbed at all. Still she goes and picks him up with love, sits and dissolves everything.

Child is kicking in, screaming in, running in, it refusing to take medicines but she still she chases after the kid; and sees that he has what he needs , she gives it; and that is what Devotion is; which is independent of the reaction or response.

The love which is independent of response is called Devotion.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||