| The dancer described vividly the coming of Vishnu as Narasimha to protect his bhakta Prahlada. |
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| It revels in those multiple personal equations a bhakta can draw up with his god, as parent, friend or beloved. |
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| The bhakta can so get immersed in these roles so as to completely lose his outer identity or ego. |
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| Though Ramakrishna was undoubtedly a bhakta or devotee, Vivekananda himself appears more as a karma yogi. |
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| The liberation of the bhakta, therefore, surpasses the five other kinds of liberation. |
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| A similar legend tells of a hungry bhakta who plucked a fruit and left it on the river bank while bathing. |
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| Surprisingly, perhaps, Vidyapati himself was not a Krishna bhakta, not even a Vaishnava. |
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| We must become like Arjuna, who became the topmost yogi and bhakta while fighting a war on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. |
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| The snake charmer sings to charm his snakes, but these songs are intended to charm the bhakta. |
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| After he became a bhakta he engaged wholeheartedly in musical worship. |
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| All of these will serve to bring the bhakta closer to God, That, the undivided Whole. |
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| Unconditionally dedicated to God, the I of the bhakta is still there but dissociated from and fully absorbed into the feeling itself. |
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| Forgetting oneself and abandonment of selfish interests are, along with the feeling of harmony, what the adept bhakta may yield in a well-directed dâsya-shakti practice. |
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| Transcending the dry intellectual assumption of a Divine's immanence within the Creation, dâsya-shakti makes it possible for the bhakta to actually feel the Divine's presence in the recipient of the unselfish service. |
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| Enthralled by these marvels, the bhakta may feel irresistibly compelled to express his God-related feelings in words, music or songs, fully attuned with the Divine. |
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| But the Goswami seems to have got her drift and instead of bristling at her snub, he realized that here was an enlightened bhakta who had grasped the essence of the Lord. |
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| Bhakta Joe says he has struggled with severe depression much of his life, and spirituality has helped him. |
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