Gita 8.22
Aksara Brahma Yoga
पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यस्त्वनन्यया | यस्यान्तःस्थानि भूतानि येन सर्वमिदं ततम् ||२२||
puruṣaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha bhaktyā labhyas tv ananyayā | yasyāntaḥsthāni bhūtāni yena sarvam idaṁ tatam ||22||
In essence: The Supreme Person - in whom all beings exist and who pervades everything - is attainable only through undivided devotion.
A conversation between a seeker and guide to help you feel this verse deeply
Sadhak-Guru Dialogue
Sadhak: "Ananya-bhakti - undivided devotion. But I have duties, family, work. How can my devotion be undivided?"
Guru: "Undivided doesn't mean you abandon everything else. It means you see everything else IN the Divine. Your family is His family. Your work is His work. Nothing is outside."
Sadhak: "But practically, my mind is always divided. I think of a hundred things."
Guru: "That's the training. Ananya-bhakti is not a starting point but a destination. Begin by offering each divided thought to Krishna - even the scattered ones."
Sadhak: "What makes devotion effective? I've prayed for years without feeling transformation."
Guru: "Check the 'ananya' quality. Is your devotion conditional? 'I'll love God if He gives me this.' Is it divided? 'God is for Sundays; the rest is mine.' True bhakti holds nothing back."
Sadhak: "I'm afraid of that totality. What if I lose myself?"
Guru: "What will you lose? Your anxieties? Your endless wanting? Your fear of death? You will lose only what was never truly you."
Sadhak: "The verse says He pervades everything. Then why can't I feel Him?"
Guru: "A fish asks: 'Where is this ocean everyone speaks of?' You are swimming in Divinity. Ananya-bhakti removes the blindness, not the distance."
Sadhak: "So devotion is about seeing, not achieving?"
Guru: "Precisely. You don't attain what is already everywhere. You awaken to what you always were held by."
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🌅 Daily Practice
Begin your day by consciously placing yourself within the Divine - not reaching out to a distant God, but recognizing you are already held, already pervaded. Say internally: 'I abide in You; You pervade all I will encounter today.' Let this be your foundation before any activity.
Practice 'seeing through' - when interacting with any person, pause internally and recognize: 'The Supreme pervades this being too.' When handling any object or situation, acknowledge: 'This too is pervaded.' This transforms mundane interactions into continuous recognition of the Divine.
Review your day and notice where your devotion was divided - where you forgot the Divine and grasped at fragments. Without self-judgment, gently re-offer those moments. Ask: 'What would this day have looked like if I had remembered You in every moment?' Rest in the intention to remember more tomorrow.