1. Bhakti is the means of achieving the goal and not the goal itself. RD 15
  2. We practice Bhakti or devotion in order to achieve communication with Supreme Master. RD 79
  3. Devotion :- Lashing in the wave of the almighty with unawareness of the fact of what I am doing and for what I am doing it. The highest type of the bhakti is the unawareness of oneself, and of the process. AB I P 43.
  4. The perfection of human nobility lies in a devotee being always within the sphere of devotion. That which has come from its Source should be considered the same as all are proceeding out from One Source. TM 45
  5. I ever remained a blind devotee of Him whom I took to be my everything, and never bothered about what might be right or Everything was absorbed in my thought of Him and Him alone. As for the worship of gods and deities, I never stood in need of them nor do I even now. VR I
  6. Constant remembrance, in fact, is a natural development of meditational practice and it acquires efficiency when the abhyasi has become devoted to the object of meditation or constant remembrance. It then ceases to be dry abhyas and becomes a luscious all-absorbing engagement. The fire of love and devotion alone burns down trivial trash, and wins the gold from the dross. SMP 66
  7. Devotion and love, of course, remain so easy and yet so difficult of achievement at Real devotion has no tinge of affection in it and goes hand in glove with enlightenment. SMP 66-67
  8. The superfine level of devotion may be spoken of as total self- surrender, from which the awareness of surrender has entirely been withdrawn by the grace of the Supreme Master Himself. SMP 67
  9. The problem of practising devotion, surrender, etc., in a natural way is there. For this purpose it is said that one can love another person of his own species best. So the guru is taken into account as the personification of the Supreme. In my case my Master was the only object of my love. I was not a lover of freedom or peace or perfection or any thing, but only of Him and Him alone. My Master was no doubt worthy of it, being the fittest man to be meditated upon and be devoted to. He was altogether free from egoistic feelings, desires and worldly entanglements, and devoted wholly to his ‘own self’. SMP 67