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Spiritual Realisation, the Aim of Bhakti-Yoga.
To the bhakta these dry details are necessary to strengthen his will only. Beyond that they are of no use to him, for, he is treading along a path which will soon lead him beyond the hazy and turbulent regions of reason, to the realm of realisation. Soon, through the mercy of the Lord, he reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. No more does he reason and believe, he perceives. No more does he argue, he senses. And is not this seeing and feeling and enjoying God, higher than reasoning and arguing about Him? Nay, bhaktas have not been wanting who have maintained that it is higher than Moksha-liberation even. And is it not
