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Chapter 8
Appendix:—The devotion has been called exclusive (ananya)—it means that in devotion, there should neither be the smallest fragment of matter nor any latent impression of ego, nor any impression of one's own opinion viz., there should not be the least attraction anywhere. All is God—this realization is `ananyabhakti' (exclusive devotion).
Craving for pleasures is only one but the material for pleasures of increasing degrees is available in numerous worlds. When a striver is not attracted even by the pleasures available in the abode of Brahma and is not even satisfied with salvation, then he attains devotion.
In the seventh chapter the Lord declared "mattah parataram nanyat kincidasti' (7/7), the same fact has been mentioned here by the expression 'yasyantah sthani bhutani yena sarvamidam tatam.' The same fact will be mentioned in detail in the fourth and fifth verses of the ninth chapter. All this means that there is nothing else besides God viz., all is God.
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