Three Pathways of Devotion to Realize God Within

The Profound Art of Surrender

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What does it truly mean to experience God?
Not as an abstract idea,
a distant entity,
or a concept from ancient scriptures,
but as a living, breathing presence within you?

God is your inner stillness.
God is your highest state of consciousness.
God is No-body and No-Thing.
God is not a separate entity.
God resides within you as your inner being.

You experience God once you turn inward and become conscious by surrendering your mind to Being and rest in being all the time.

That continuous feeling-realization of the inner being is called spiritual enlightenment.

After enlightenment, you cease to exist as a mind-body. Then divinity will take over your mind-body complex, and you will be used as a tool to manifest the purpose of the divine on this earth.

The purpose of divinity is to bring awareness “through you” in this world.

Total Surrender to Being has three devotional qualities. 

It must be 

1. Exclusive Devotion

2. Continuous Devotion  

3. Selfless Devotion

1. Exclusive Devotion:

Exclusive devotion is the complete surrender of the mind to the inner Being, remaining solely rooted in the present moment. Here, you must withdraw your attention from the world’s distractions. Though we must live in this world, we are called to let the world not live in us.

It is like a boat floating on water—though it is surrounded by water, the water does not enter the boat. This mirrors the teaching of Jesus, "Be in the world, but not of the world."

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, “For those who continually immerse themselves in me with exclusive devotion and surrender, I am easily attainable because of their constant absorption in me.”

This exclusive devotion leads to a deep, unshakable connection with the Source, where spiritual enlightenment is realized, and the ego dissolves into the eternal.

The next two types of devotion—Continuous devotion and Selfless Devotion—reveal the purity of divine love, where surrender is unconditional and free from self-centered motives. It is here that the ego truly dissolves, and we become vessels of divine purpose. These two deepen our connection to the inner Being, leading us to profound spiritual transformation.

Let’s understand the second type of Devotion….