ruci

Updated: May 18, 2025

Reason is useless in religious matters, but ruci or spiritual feeling has a quick intuition of the divine. Salvation is obtained by Bhakti, faith or devotion, which embraces and supersedes all other duties. This devotion means absolute self-surrender to the deity and love for him which asks for no return but is its own reward. "He who expects remuneration for his love acts as a trader."

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2