Spiritual Questions - Part 9 (What is devotion?)

Q. What is devotion?

A. The non-emotional form of Emotion of True Love is Devotion.

Q. Can you cultivate devotion?

A. No

Q. Why?

A. Because, anything that you try to create or cultivate will be with the I and that will be ego driven. So, in reality it cannot happen. Because, anything that is created based on ego will be emotional in nature and it will bind you to that concept. Devotion is not like that. Devotion has to happen all by itself. Then, how can anything happens all by itself? It is not possible. That means it has to be present already. So, Devotion is the same-thing as Silence which is ever present. Only thing is we should make ourselves aware of that. That is why it is called as non-emotional Emotion of True Love. Because, in Devotion you will love everything unconditionally. Actually you will love your True Self in it. Since your True Self is the One which is present everywhere, you will love everything. Because everything is a projection of that True Self. Anything that is projected is projected as a thought only. That means in reality it does not exist. It is a dream only. When any-thing does not exist, what will exist? Only Nothing-ness exists. So Devotion is that kind of non-emotional Emotion of True Love that reveals that Nothingness. All this happens only in surrender. In fact, in   Devotion lies surrender. In Devotion there is a complete surrender in it. Surrender means nothing. There is no I in it. When there is no I, is there a You? No. Surrender is a state where there is neither I nor You. Just it is. Surrender is the state where everything is happening all by itself. There is not even a process of thinking that whatever is happening is done by Him. It is a state where you may want to say to explain someone "it is happening all by itself", but underneath at the substratum you know that even that is not happening; it is only a projection of mind and it is an illusion. In fact nothing is ever happening. You are in that Nothing-ness state.

So Devotion or surrender is a state of neither I nor You. It is a state of Emptiness. Just it is!