Having thus acquired the rare gift of Devotion the sage prepared a funeral pile and discarding all attachment from his heart ascended it.
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The concept of a saint refers to an individual revered for their spiritual wisdom and virtue across various world traditions. Many traditions converge in their esteem for saints as exemplars of spiritual attainment. However, they diverge in their specific understandings and veneration of these figures.
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The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.
One gets liberated either due to their karma or with the help of saints
You saints, however, must wish for the welfare of all. This feeling takes root in the heart only when we see the image of the Formless One - God, in each and every human being.
Saints always show love only. The world may show any amount of hatred, but we must not leave our path of love.
All that brings happiness in life is achieved through the grace of the company of saints. The more we attend congregations, the more our life becomes enriched with saintly qualities. Our heart begins to absorb love and humility, which are the sources of all kinds of happiness.
Kabir says that this earth belongs to the saints, but thieves have occupied it and are exploiting it. The earth cannot bear the burden of such sinners, but it endures because of the saints.
This is why saints always live in God's bliss and constantly praise Him.
Saints know that wealth, body, and soul are gifts from God and belong to Him.
Saints love God for the sake of love, and a devotee never complains.
A saint lives according to God's will.
Saint Kabir says: Brother, why fear Maya? One who has realized the Truth can overcome it.
Even the gods, celestial singers, divine musicians, ancestral spirits, yakṣas, wandering bards, and the sages themselves do not fully know the proper manner of serving the Guru.
Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, divine seers, ancestors, celestial musicians, perfected beings, bards, yakṣas, and all other sages and beings — (none of these attain success without the grace that comes through service to the Guru).
Arise, be awake, and having found the great ones, learn from them. For the path is sharp as a razor's edge, hard to traverse, and difficult to follow, as the sages say.
The invisible and ungraspable, devoid of relationships and color, without eyes or ears, without hands or feet, is eternal, pervasive, and present in all things. It is impalpable, imperishable, and the womb of all creation, beheld by wise sages everywhere.
The Vedantic sages sought to know, live in, and be one with the self through an integral knowing, which is necessary for direct knowledge to be complete.
The devotion to Hari is scarce attainable even by the sages, but it can be easily attained by men who constantly listen to this story with faith.
Butter melts only when heated by fire, whereas holy saints melt with compassion at the suffering of others.