Is Reading Scriptures Better Than Devotion & Love For Divine? | Bhakti & Gyaan | Swami Mukundananda

Good question n answer sessions

Its been a burning question in my head

Thank you Amira for your wonderful work. So nice you are able to interact with such great philosophers. Want to understand from them how to handle situations which are Legal but not Ethical. How to face this violent world with so many things going wrong like corruption and terrorism which has no evidence but effect seen and unable to control. What means should one take to counter this.

Balance is highest Bhakti plus gyan which is then applied to service that is the ideal of all Vaishnavas and the idea espoused by Krishna in the Gita cultivate divine sentiments cultivate the right knowledge then apply that which you have cultivated to activties that lead to a happy outcome for yourself your family and society that is what makes Krishna happy

🙏 Two aspects of yoga bringing us to the same conclusion that there is only one Truth, one Reality call it God or Krishna or Brahman, or pure Consciousness = same thing, just different terminologies for different paths = same realisation : Brahma-Satyam ;Jagat- Mithya. With loving kindness 💜 🙏 📿

Swami Teacher 🙏 To paraphrase, the Teachings say - if you are doing 'bhakti' because of One's egoic self desires to feel good of doing a 'kind' act to make up One's sense of lack or inadequacy or incompleteness, then it gets no merit. Because the act is not true kindness but is an act of sentimentality based the greed for merits, and the fear of not doing enough to fulfill One's desirous good. In this case, that kind act is not meritorious deed or bhakti, instead it is just felicity. True Bhakti is like an action of "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing". It is doing & yet not doing, and nothing is left undone. When the person who does the kind act is devoid of a sense of his or her (egoic) self of doing it - this is true bhakti or meritorious deed. 😊🙏🙇‍♂️🌷