According to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, God is the only God of all the worlds and since God is the best friend of all living beings, he is also my best friend. Knowing this, he gets peace. He is sure that now I am safe and complete in every way. When the Almighty God is my best friend, then why should I fear.
There are many types of desires in a man’s mind. He always finds himself lacking in some or the other thing in the world. In no situation does he feel that he has got everything and he doesn’t need anything else. Even after getting the rarest of things, he feels some lack in it and thinks that when this lack of his is fulfilled, he will get peace. This feeling of lack never allows a man’s mind to be at peace. There are only two states of peace. One is that, on reaching which he himself becomes the embodiment of peace. Then he never feels the lack of anything. He sees the only God everywhere, everywhere and always in everyone and finds himself one with Him. This completeness of his is his true nature, this is called Mukti (liberation). The second is that state in which he always finds himself under the protection of God, where God is always available to fulfill his needs with infinite hands and infinite powers, but he does not feel any lack after getting God, he becomes fulfilled. Even his eyes never turn towards salvation even by mistake. He has already known that whatever sacrifices and penances are performed in the world, only God in the form of various gods is the enjoyer of them all; therefore whatever fruits one gets from the act of worshipping Gods, all come from the infinite storehouse of God. God is the only God of all the worlds and because God is the best friend of all living beings, he is also my best friend. Knowing this, he gets peace. He becomes sure that now I am safe and complete in every way. When the Almighty God is my best friend, then what should I fear and what should I lack. In such a state, he becomes carefree and peaceful by depending on God in every way.
Similarly, among the Sakaam Bhaktas, there are three types of devotees – Artharthi, Aart and Jigyasu (‘Aarto Jigyasukararththi’). One of them is the one who worships God for the accomplishment of any material thing – wealth, people, respect, fame, pleasure, heaven etc. The second is the one who worships God to get relief from some problem due to destiny and the third is the one who remembers God to know the simple and easy path to attain God. The Sakaam Bhakti of these three Sakaam Bhaktas should also be considered complete only when they consider God as their only refuge and depend on Him. Only then do they get the fruit effortlessly.
Dhruva was a benevolent devotee; as soon as he depended on God, he got his desired result. Draupadi and Gajraj were distressed devotees and as long as they kept expecting even a little relief from others, their troubles did not go away; when they depended on God alone and called out to Him, God Himself appeared at that very moment and removed their sorrows. There have been many such inquisitive devotees who, by depending on God, have easily embarked on the path of God with divine inspiration. For this dependence of selfish feelings, saints give the example of a kitten by comparing it with a monkey’s baby. When a monkey’s baby is hungry, it jumps and catches its mother. But the hungry kitten sits at its place waiting for its mother; the mother herself takes care of it and comes to it, picks it up with her mouth and takes it wherever it needs to be taken.
Similarly, those people who depend on God with faith and devotion for the accomplishment of any work and wait for His grace, God Himself comes and completes their work. Examples of many devotees like Narsi Mehta etc. are proof of this.
