Of course such Prema will dawn only after knowing the glory and the splendour of the Lord as well as His Innate Characteristics of Ominscience, Omnipotence, and Immanence in all Creation. He who is endowed with Prema of this Nature, who lives always with the Lord, he will certainly be liberated.

What does it mean, the expression "to know God"? It means "to love God". Knowledge without devotion produces hatred; such knowledge leads to power that is misused; it is not knowledge worth the name; it is ignorance, mistaken for its opposite. It is only through Bhakthi that Jnana becomes stabilised and deep-rooted.

What is the sign of a Jnani? It is Prema, the possession of everwidening Prema. When Bhakthi or, in other words, love towards the Lord dawns, Ignorance will vanish, step by step. Bhakthi and Hatred cannot co-exist; they are contradictory. Bhakthi and Love, however, are of the same nature.

The worldly man is infected with love towards material objects only; but, the same love when it assumes the form of Bhakthi or Love of God leads one on to the realisation of Godhead itself. The word, Rasa, indicates the attraction of worldly objects as well as the longing for the joy of God-realisation.

The consequences of Karma are diminished by undergoing them and then, you are born again. But the fruits of Bhakthi are never diminished at all. They last for ever. Liberation lasts; it does not end. Verily, Bhakthi is the real technique for human liberation. That is the Sadhana par excellence. Every other technique is built upon that.