The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 12- 5. Swami Krishnananda.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, August 26, 2021. 9:29. PM. Chapter -12. God and the Universe - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But the greatest devotee of God is he who asks for nothing from God—not even knowledge, not even enlightenment, not even freedom from suffering—and such devotees are rare to find. The mind is made in such a way that it has always a need of some kind or other. And to imagine a condition of the mind where it has no need whatsoever is difficult. The highest devotion asks for God alone, and not anything through God, or from God. The superiority of this sort of devotion should become obvious to any thinking mind, because to ask for anything from God, or to utilise God as an instrument in the acquisition of anything exterior to God, would be to reduce...