It is obvious how bhakti can inspire and energize other paths since it is love of God that tears men from egoism and draws them to harmony.

   There could be no better proof that the path of devotion is compatible with Knowledge than verse 45 of Bhagavan’s Marital Garland of Letters to Sri Arunachala:

“Weak though my effort was, by Thy Grace I gained the Self, Oh Arunachala!”

    It is said that tears of ecstatic ardour streamed down his face as he composed it. Certainly it is one of the supreme symbolical love poems of all ages and all religions. *

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* Source: Be Still, It Is The Wind That Sings, by Arthur Osborne