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Such is indeed the power of Para-Bhakti or Supreme Love; and the perfected Bhakta no more goes to see God in temples and churches; he knows no place where he will not find Him. He finds Him in the temple as well as out of the temple, he finds Him in the saint's saintliness as well as in the wicked man's wickedness, because he has Him already seated in glory in his own heart as the one Almighty inextinguishable Light of Love which is ever shining and eternally present.
Source Vivekananda, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion, The God of Love is His Own Proof, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Swami Vivekananda, the bhakta, the one who loves God with all his being, finds Him everywhere, in the temple as well as outside it, in the saint as well as in the one who does wrong, because God already shines in his own heart as a Light of Love that never goes out. Today, as you enter an ordinary place, the street, the kitchen, the office, remember that God is as present there as in the temple, and look at the difficult person of your day with that same gaze.
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