It is true that the sadhana brings full results when all our energies of worship and service, our love and especially faith and surrender are directed through one form, person, personality, deity, or guru towards the Divine. But this one-pointedness should not be an act of fear or compulsion. It should be a natural consequence of a growing love, faithfulness and surrender. The Divine or the form through which the Divine comes to us is in response to our deepest need and aspiration. We should answer to this Grace with a perfect faithfulness to the Ideal and the Truth that the Divine Representative embodies. But this is best done as a natural, inevitable act of love and not any bargain or calculation which often prompts people to go to different deities for different gains. Giving of oneself can, however be only to one, the one who represents to us the Supreme Divine. When the time comes, it will happen spontaneously.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
