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Intense Devotionudreka-bhakti
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Yukti #96Verse 121
Embodied III
Verse 121bhakty-udrekād viraktasya yādṛśī jāyate matiḥ ।
sā śaktiḥ śāṃkarī nityaṃ bhāvayet tāṃ tataḥ śivaḥ ॥The kind of understanding that arises in one who is unattached by virtue of his or her intense devotion is itself Śiva’s śakti. Contemplate & meditate on it constantly: then, Śiva [manifests in one’s direct experience].
Planning note: This practice takes months or years to actualize, and involves cultivating devotion to a deity of your choice.
Simplified Steps
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Cultivate intense devotion for your chosen divinity
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Let that devotion free you from all other attachments
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Open to intuitive insight arising within you as a gift from your chosen divinity
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Contemplate and meditate on those insights; let them reveal the wordless truth of Being.