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Here the Lord elaborates the path of bhakti. It is the most mystical chapter as well. He promises to look after the needs of those who surrender to Him in unconditional love – those bhaktas or devotees, whose only support is the Lord Himself. He further assures us that this is an easy path to follow. Sri Krishna says, “I take whatever is offered to Me lovingly, with a pure heart - be it a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water.”

It took me a month to digest the trip with Shubhraji, one of my teachers of Vedanta (Indian philosophy), and a lot longer to dissect the deep complexities of my inward journey.

Both these make up the whole. Everything has emerged from these two prakritis. He is consciousness expressing as life. He expresses as creation, sustenance and dissolution – srsti, sthiti and laya. God is the One who gives, and the One who sustains and nourishes the whole world. The entire world has emerged from Him.

Twelve years ago, almost to the day in May, in the same place which has now been re-built as the Hilton Garden Inn, Nanuet, NY, Shubhraji gave her first talk in Rockland on Bhaja Govindam by Adi Sankara.