BACK TO THE DIVINE MOTHER

A DEVOTEE, who is born with an element of
Vishnu, cannot altogether get rid of bhakti.
Once I fell into the clutches of a Jnani, who made
me listen to Vedanta for eleven months. But he
could not altogether destroy the seed of bhakti in
me. No matter where my mind wandered, it would
come back to the Divine Mother. Whenever I sang
to Her, Nangta would weep and "say, 'Ah! What
is this?' You see, he was such a great Jnani and still
he wept. Remember the popular saying that if a
man drinks the juice of the alekh creeper, a plant
grows inside his stomach.
Once the seed of Bhakti is sown, the effect is
inevitable: it will gradually grow into a tree with
flowers and fruits.

You may reason and argue a thousand times, but if
you have the seed of bhakti within you, you will
surely come back to Hari.