Rituals of pomp and circumstance are always defective

If the Supreme God is worshipped, the subsidiary gods are satisfied as a matter of course. Rituals of pomp and circumstance are always defective. God has pleasure only of pure devotion— the pride of power and pelf touches Him not. In this world of ignorance, spiritual exercises fail of securing His grace owing to divine longing being obscured by the inebriating sheets of worldly riches. The one thing needful is pure devotion — the first step to divine longing, without which the realisation of God is impossible. Love of God is the ultimate end — recked not as long as man in his self-will floats about in the sea of becomings. Recite the Holy Name day and night. Constant meditation on the being and nature of God purifies the body, mind and intellect, but ushers in divine longing, which transmutes into divine-love. God is realised not in meetings and festivities, but in and through divine love.