1) In the gyaan marg,
there's a danger of downfall.
2) For, the gyaan marg
is well within the ambit of Maya, under which also exist ignorance, passion and goodness.
3) In bhakti marg, the
devotee surrenders to God, so he gets the grace of God. Lord Krishna always protects His devotees.
4) Sri Krishna tells Arjun,
"My devotees shall never perish. I shall take care of them. I'm impartial, sure, but one who worships Me, I'm seated in him,
and he is seated in Me."
5) The gyaani attains
impersonal, formless aspect of God.
6) The bhakth attains
a personal, form aspect of God.
7) God manifests Himself in
three forms: Brahmm, Paramatma and Bhagawan.
8) Brahmm is the all-pervading
manifestation. He is in every atom in this universe as well as all other universes.
9) Paramatma is seated in everyone's
heart.
10) Bhagawan is the avatar
form of God; He descends in personal form, does leelas; He is beautiful, has unlimited knowledge and loving pastimes.
11) One who attains the bliss
of Brahmm experiences Brahmanand.
12) One who attains the bliss
of personal aspect of God experiences Premanand.
13) Premanand is infinitely
sweeter than Brahmanand. Down the ages, even the maha gyaanis who have had Brahmanand, eventually craved Premanand.
Instances abound.
14) In Satyug, the four Kumars
of Brahma were the ultimate gyaanis. They got attracted to the personal aspect of Lord Vishnu, drawn by the sweet fragrance
of Tulsi at His lotus feet. They prayed they be granted bhakti or divine love so that they can continue to experience
the bliss of bhakti and the personal aspect of God.
15) In Trethayug, the biggest
gyaani was King Janak, father of Mata Sita. Janak was so enchanted by the beauty of Ram and Lakshman he became a bhakth.
16) In Dwapar yug, the biggest
gyaani was Sukhdev Paramahans, the speaker of Bhagavatham. Sukhdev was the son of Ved Vyas. He stayed in his mother's
womb for 12 years, refusing to come out into the world for fear of getting distracted from his gyaan yog. Eventually
he did come out, but went straight to the forest to continue his gyaan yog. So Ved Vyas got some boys to recite certain
verses from the Bhagavatham, describing the infinite beauty and fascinating leelas of Sri
Krishna, in Sukhdev's ears. That opened the divine floodgates. Once Sukhdev realized that the form aspect of God and
his various leelas are infinitely fascinating, he became enchanted and turned to bhakti marg.
17) In Kalyug, the biggest
gyaani was Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya. Yet, even He went on to revive interest in the bhakti marg (which Buddhism
was about to erase) by singing paeans of Lord Krishna.
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