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Finding God's Love
INTRODUCTION - 7
CHAPTER 1 - A CALL TO LOVE - 9
CHAPTER 2 - THEORY OF THE PATH OF LOVE - 11
- LOVE AS A SPIRITUAL PATH - 11
- The Outward path - 11
- The Spiritual Path - 12
- THE EGO - 14
- TWO PATHS - 17
- The Path of Knowledge - Jnana - 19
- The Path of Devotion - Bhakti - 21
- Devotion is Simple - 22
- Devotion Destroys the Ego - 23
- Devotion is Powerful - 24
- Devotion Invokes Grace - 25
- Devotion Brings Immediate Satisfaction - 26
- Devotion is Innocence - 26
- STRINGS IN THE TAPESTRY OF DEVOTION - 29
- Does God Exist? - 29
- God Personalized - 32
- The Relationship - 33
- The Levels of Devotion - 35
- The Connection - 37
- The Evolution of Devotion - 39
CHAPTER 3 - THE PRACTICE OF LOVE - 40
- THE DAILY DOSE OF LOVE - 40
- Visualize Love - 40
- Feeling Innocent - 42
- Sitting Practice - 42
- Walking Practice - 44
- CRYING TO GOD - 46
- SINGING TO GOD - 48
- THE BLESSING OF A GREAT SOUL - 49
- PITFALLS ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION - 51
- Negative Thoughts - 51
- Desire - 52
- Anger - 52
- Greed - 52
- Jealousy - 52
- Attachment - 53
- Pride - 53
- Steering Our Ship - 54
- LOVING OTHER PEOPLE - 55
- How to Forgive - 56
- Forgiving Ourselves - 56
- Original Innocence - 57
CHAPTER 4 - INSTRUCTION FROM AMMACHI - 60
- How to Practice Devotion - 60
- Worshiping a Form - 60
- Do Deities Exist? - 60
- How to Love God - 61
- Why Meditate on a Form - 62
- Making the Form Clear - 62
- Getting Clear Form Takes Time - 63
- How to Meditate on the Form - 63
- Calling You Near - 64
- The Form will Become Full of Life - 64
- Place a Small Picture - 65
- In the Midst of a Blazing Fire - 65
- Look Into the Water - 66
- Even Realized Souls Seek the Sweetness of Bhakti - 66
- The Needle and the Magnet - 66
- Restlessness for God - 67
- Persistent Little Boy - 67
- Cry for God - 68
- Saved by a Few Tears - 68
- Cry and Pray to God - 68
- Value of Crying to God - 69
- Abandon the World - Cry to God - 70
- Real Love Should be There - 71
- Real Bhakti - 71
- Like Love Between a Man and a Woman - 72
- Constant Remembrance - 72
- Leaky Hose - 73
- Why Bhakti is Best for Western Children - 73
- Many Advantages to the Practice of Bhakti - 74
- Attitude of Renunciation (Detachment) - 76
- Attitude of Surrender - 77
- Devotional Singing in this Age - 78
- Sing with Love and Devotion - 78
- Chanting the Divine Name - 78
- Amma’s Divine Moods - 79
- She Struggles to Stay Down - 79
- The Bliss-Intoxicated Divine Mood - 80
- Overwhelmed with Bliss - 82
- Face Like the Full Moon - 83
- Once You Taste It - 84
- Drinking Milk - 85
- As Light as a Basket of Flowers - 85
- Perfect Devotee - 86
- A Struggle to Stay Down - 86
- Victory, Victory to the Mother - 87
- Play the Right Beat - 88
- Chakka Kali - 90
- Handful of Sand - 92
- Sit Like This for Months - 92
- A Movie - 92
- A Tidal Wave of Devotion - 93
- Reveling in Her Own World - 94
- The Bliss-Intoxicated Mother - 96
- This Is ‘That’ - 97
- Experiences of Devotees - 98
- A Vision of Mother as Parashakti - 98
- A Devotee's Experience Of Kali - 98
- Young Man From Rishikesh - 100
- Tears of Inner Joy - 102
- Everyone Sang Forgetting Themselves - 103
BIBLIOGRAPHY - 105
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