Who needs devotion and who does not? || On Saint Lalleshwari (2017)
Life is given. Nothing is earned. So, learn to serve others, not your own desire, greed, and ego. They steal your energies. Whereas devotion builds your strength and protects the intelligent flame that leads to the Truth within.
~ Saint Lalleshwari
Acharya Prashant: So, the Questioner is asking, ‘Is the intelligent flame vulnerable? Does the strength fade away too? Is Truth a by-product of devotion, intelligence, and strength? Can I not be in Truth prior to it? Are devotion and serving others necessary steppingstones?’
It is not a question of whether and if and assumptions. If one is firmly established in Truth, then one does not need devotion. The establishment is devotion.
If one is Lalleswari already, to the extent that one has given up identities with all sheaths, just as Lalleswari had given up her identification with the social regiment, clothing, then obviously serving others as a tool is not needed, then serving others is just an expression of who you are.
But one is not there. One is at a distance from one’s own heart, and therefore tools and methods are needed.
