tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Systems of Rāmānuja
f) for the Lord, their lover. The love, when it deepens still more, becomes a vyasana or haunting passion for him. When the intensity of the devotee reaches such a high pitch it leads to the final perfect bliss (ananda) of the Divine. When this pitch is attained the devotee enters into the final realm of the Divine and takes supreme joy in the service of Hari. When his devotion assumes the highest pitch and it becomes a haunting passion for him he begins to see everywhere Hari, and hence, everything becomes an object of love and adoration for him. He goes further even to identify himself with everything that assumes the nature of Hari. He then identifies himself with all the things; the separativeness of the inner and the outer and the egoism of the individual are liquidated and he attains complete unity with the Divine. The puştimargiya thus takes supreme joy and satisfaction in getting an access into the eternal Lila (a) of the Divine Kṛṣṇa. The liberated soul then participates in the eternal sport (nitya lila-f) and feels the supreme satisfaction in enjoying the happiness of the company of the Lord by assuming the forms of even cows, beasts, birds, trees, rivers, etc.' They derive boundless joy from the company of the Supreme Lord (Purusottama-g) and enjoy the Divine joy by assuming even the celestial body. The liberated devotees derive superb joy in the service of the Purusottama with whom he has sought identity (sarvātmabhāva¬¬¬¬) by singing songs of
1 Bhatta Balkrishna: Prame'ya Ratṇārnava, p. 27.
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