Total absorption with the lord, or bhakti can only be in the form of surrender.
It is a misnomer to claim that dvaita bhakti and advaita bhakti are at loggerheads.
When properly understood, dvaita bhakti and advaita bhakti are found to be only technically different, but in terms of the attitudinal impact, are same in their total purity.
In dvaita bhakti, we dedicate each and every action of ours to the lord alone, the lord being the total source of all actions, the lord has given us the means of actions, the knowledge required for action, even righteous desires are nothing but a pure expression of the lord alone. The lord alone provides the results of the action. By dedicating ones actions to the lord, and accepting the results as the lords order alone, a karma yogi bhakta, attitudinally surrenders to the lord,and enjoys the same kind of benefit in terms of his mental attitude as an advaita bhakta.
The sole difference between a dvaita and advaita bhakta is essentially the fact that what is an assumed and deliberately cultivated "attitude" for a dvaita bhakta, the same attitude is born of "knowledge" for the advaita bhakta.
For an advaita bhakta, there is only one nirguna brahman, which is indeed the lord. There is no notion of a separate jiva and a separate ishvara, there is only the one, the self and that is ishvara, expressing itself as the cause and the effect, from a mithya standpoint.
So from that standpoint, every action is already absorbed into the lord alone, brahman alone as the sole cause, and brahman alone as the experiencer, brahman alone as the very order of karma and its consequences or fruits.
This total absorption is what we call as advaita gnanam, and the attitude for this jnani is no different from a karma yogi bhakta who has given up the individual ego in an act of total surrender , an attitude of total surrender.
It is a misnomer to claim that dvaita bhakti and advaita bhakti are at loggerheads.
When properly understood, dvaita bhakti and advaita bhakti are found to be only technically different, but in terms of the attitudinal impact, are same in their total purity.
In dvaita bhakti, we dedicate each and every action of ours to the lord alone, the lord being the total source of all actions, the lord has given us the means of actions, the knowledge required for action, even righteous desires are nothing but a pure expression of the lord alone. The lord alone provides the results of the action. By dedicating ones actions to the lord, and accepting the results as the lords order alone, a karma yogi bhakta, attitudinally surrenders to the lord,and enjoys the same kind of benefit in terms of his mental attitude as an advaita bhakta.
The sole difference between a dvaita and advaita bhakta is essentially the fact that what is an assumed and deliberately cultivated "attitude" for a dvaita bhakta, the same attitude is born of "knowledge" for the advaita bhakta.
For an advaita bhakta, there is only one nirguna brahman, which is indeed the lord. There is no notion of a separate jiva and a separate ishvara, there is only the one, the self and that is ishvara, expressing itself as the cause and the effect, from a mithya standpoint.
So from that standpoint, every action is already absorbed into the lord alone, brahman alone as the sole cause, and brahman alone as the experiencer, brahman alone as the very order of karma and its consequences or fruits.
This total absorption is what we call as advaita gnanam, and the attitude for this jnani is no different from a karma yogi bhakta who has given up the individual ego in an act of total surrender , an attitude of total surrender.
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