Deva means divine, Paritosho means contentment. And contentment is the door to God. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are.
Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non - acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontentment. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.
In the state of contentment desiring disappears, and when there is no desire there is no tension, no anxiety, no anguish. When there is no desire there is no mind either. The mind can only exist in desiring. .
The mind is the name of the whole process of desiring. And desiring is based on non - acceptance.
The moment your mind says that things are not as they should be, desire arises. The moment you say that things are as they should be, desire disappears. And the disappearance of desire is the appearance of the divine.
Hence I call contentment the door to God. To be contented is all.
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