The seventh form of bhakti is seeing the spark of life and divinity in each and everyone. There should be no distinction between one person and another. There should be no concept of high and low, but there is identification. Just as I can identify with God there, I should be able to identify with God here, in you, in me, even in different forms of creation.
There is a tradition in India that once in a lifetime people who are God-fearing, sadhus and sannyasins, have to take water from Gangotri, the source of the Ganga, and carry it on their shoulders in pots, without putting it down on the ground anywhere on the way. They walk to Rameshwar, where, supposedly, Lord Rama had made the shiva lingam out of sand, and offer the water there. It is believed that by doing so, one can attain realization. Saint Tukaram once made this arduous journey from Gangotri to Rameshwar. Just as he was about to enter the gates of the temple, he saw a donkey, totally dehydrated and in need of water. There were thousands of pilgrims, but nobody was paying any attention to the poor donkey. Saint Tukaram said, “The donkey also is my Lord,” and gave the water to it.
Now, what merit he acquired we do not know, but from the story it can be gathered that he saw his Lord in creation around him. He was not a self-centered person. He did not say, “Okay, I have brought this water to put on the shiva lingam in the temple. Let the donkey die, he is suffering his karma.” We may think that the donkey is suffering his karma, but he did not think like that.
So, seeing that aspect of divinity which I have experienced within myself, within other beings, whether animate or inanimate, is the highest form of compassion where the individual self is totally eradicated – kaput! Then you are God and everything is God. The same light that shines in you shines everywhere.

The eighth form of bhakti is contentment, not seeing faults in other beings. There is a saying by Saint Kabir, “I have searched the whole world to find a crooked person, but now I realize there is no one more crooked than me.” One who does not struggle, or fight, who does not see any kind of fault in other people, but who lives and flows with life, is content. Because, after all, who is at fault here? You are expressing yourself according to your level of evolution. I am expressing myself according to my level of evolution. Grass is small, trees are tall. Is it the fault of the grass that it is smaller than the tree? Is it the fault of the tree that it is taller than the grass? No. There is a natural law governing each and every being, each and every blade of grass, and we all express ourselves according to that natural law.
If there is acceptance of the natural law then there will be no criticism. Of course, one has to strive to uphold the dharma because that is also a level of bhakti. Krishna could have sat quietly and said, “Everyone is following their law, let the Pandavas do their thing, let the Kauravas do their thing.” But he followed his dharma with happiness and contentment. He never criticized anyone.

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, Ganga Darshan, 21.11.1994