Devotion and Insight: The Two Wings of Spiritual Life

So my feeling at that point and at this point was that for me, if I can't bow down to God, if I can't pray to Him and love Him in this way, then I don't want Enlightenment. I don't want Enlightenment without devotion, and I don't want devotion without insight. So what was on offer was very beautiful, probably the highest, and yet for a bhakta of Ram, anything cannot compare to being with Him or meeting Him. So both the paths of Bhakti and Jnana are very beautiful and ultimately meet as one. You see, Bhagavan Himself said that, like two wings of the same bird: one is Bhakti, one is Jnana. You see, you can take whichever side and it will lead to both at the end. Very good, very good, very good.

So yes, from Bhakti we can come to Jnana, and in some cases from Jnana also we come to Bhakti. So what was the... so we said that no matter how much we put effort into a sadhana, there is no guarantee of it, and yet we must put full effort. You see, our faith is the only guarantee, like Ma Shabri's faith was her only guarantee. There was no written contract between Ram and her that He will come, isn't it? But her faith in her heart, she knew. Same way, in our heart we also know that if we really strive for the highest, if we really devote ourselves to God, then God will not be away from us for our entire life.