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Bhakti is not fruitful in a heart where
worldly desires, anger, greed, attachment,
jealousy, malice, hatred, vice and negative
feelings dominate. In a state like this, bhakti
is an outward show and a farce.
Bhakti is rich in `satoguna' (quality of
goodness and virtue). When the heart is pure
and full of divinity, bhakti is sheer joy and
bliss. The present day practice of bhakti is
taking place in an environment of `rajoguna'
(quality of luxuriousness and merry-making)
and `tamoguna' (the quality of darkness and
ignorance). There are desires, anger, greed,
falsehood, unrighteousness in the heart. Ritual
of bhakti is being performed by loud sounding
songs, mechanical reading of written text,
show of money, and physical movement, but
there is no spirit of bhakti in the mind, intellect
and the soul of the practitioner. No change is
visible in the thinking, action, behaviour, and