Sri Ramana Maharshi
29-10-1945 Afternoon
Dilip Kumar Roy, singer and author, who is on a visit here from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, asked Bhagavan, "According to the Maha Yoga you say that the sages have not said anything to contradict each other. Yet, we find one advocating bhakti, another jnana etc. leading thus to all sorts of quarrels."
B: There is really nothing contradictory in such teachings. When for instance a follower of bhakti marga declares that bhakti is the best, he really means by the word bhakti what the jnana marga man calls jnana. There is no difference in the state or its description by attributes or transcendence of attributes. Only different thinkers have used different words. All these different margas, or paths, or sadhanas lead to the same goal. What is once a means becomes itself the goal. When that happens dhyana, bhakti or jnana, which was at one time a conscious and painful effort, becomes the normal and natural state, spontaneously and without effort.
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