in Ramayana as well as
in Srimad Bhagavatam
is
The devotee offers éverything to God,
including his body, mind and soul.
He keeps nothing for himself.
He loses even his own self.
He has no personal and independent existence.
He has given his self for God.
He has become part and parcel of God.
God takes care of him and God treats him as Himself.
Grief and sorrow, pleasure and pain,
the devotee treats as gifts sent by God
and does not attach himself to them.
He considers himself as a puppet of God
and an instrument in the hands of God.
He does not feel egoistic, for he has no ego.
His ego has gone over to God.
It is not his duty to take care of his wife, children, etc.,
for he himself has no independent existence apart from God.
God will take care of all.
He knows how to lead the world in the right path.
One need not think that he is born to lead the world.
God is there who will look to everything which man cannot even dream of.
He has no sensual craving,
for he has no body as it is offered to God.
He does not adore or love his body,
for it is God's business to see to it.
He only feels the presence of God and nothing else.
He is fearless, for God is helping him at all times.
He has no enemy, for he has given himself up to God
who has no enemies or friends.
He has no anxiety,
for he has attained everything
by attaining the grace of God.
He has not even the thought of salvation!
Rather he does not want salvation even.
He merely wants God and nothing but God.
He is satisfied with the love of God
for by that there is nothing that is not attained.
What is there to be attained,
when God has sent His grace upon the devotee?
The devotee does not want to become sugar but taste sugar.
There is pleasure in tasting sugar, but not in becoming sugar itself.
So the devotee feels that there is supreme joy
more in loving God than becoming God.
God shall take complete care of the devotee.
"I am Thine," says the devotee.
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