Bhakthi (devotion) is not like lime pickle, to be used only when you have fever; it is man's daily substance, the vitamin he must have for physical and mental health. The contemplation of God is like the main rice dish; the rest are side dishes, appetizers, fillers. Take the tablet of Naamasmarana (constant thought of the Lord), and all the experience of your daily life, the good and the bad, will be digested nicely. You don't eat paddy, do you? You have the sense to remove the husk and then boil the rice before you eat it. So also, why do you take in nature as it is? Remove the allurement it has to the senses, make it just an expression of the Divine Will and then assimilate it.

- Divine Discourse, December 6, 1963.

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