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Chapter 10
It means, that the devotee has not to make efforts, either for equanimity or Self-realization,[1] because where, there is a mother in the form of devotion, there are as children dispassion and knowledge (Self-realization). It means, that the perfection attained by the aspirant, may have some deficiency. But the perfection conferred by the Lord, has not even a trace of imperfection.
As the Lord, provides gain and security to those devotees who worship Him, alone (Gita 9/22), He confers equanimity and Self-realization to those devotees, who entirely depend on Him, though they have no desire. And even, by conferring equanimity and Self-realization, He remains a debtor to them. As the Lord, Himself declares in the Bhagavata about the cowherdesses—"I can't pay the debt of the chaste cowherdesses, even by having the long age of the gods, because they broke the chain of domestic affmity, which even great seers and sages don't break, easily" (10/32/22).
The devotees, are so much absorbed in devotion for the Lord, that they are surprised to perceive equanimity and Self-realization in them. Moreover, they pray to God, that they should not feel any singularity in them, by having His gifts given to them by His grace, but they ever want to remain absorbed in devotion to Him. Even if, they are vouchsafed the power to emancipate the world, they don't feel elevated in anyway, and keep always absorbed, in God.
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