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जं च कामसुहं लोए जं च दिव्वं महासुई । वीयरायसुहस्सेयं गंतभागमपि णग्घई ॥
" Pleasure arising from satisfying passion and even the divine happiness-then stand no comparison with the infinitesimal part of the happiness of the Vitarāga.” Bhartrihari very felicitously compares an ascetic who has attained mental equanimity to a king who can command everything to satisfy his want. The Yogi in this stage has neither the attraction of friendship nor the repulsion of enmity. He is not distracted by objects of pleasure and he remains always submerged in the unfathomable and limitless ocean of contentment.
- The soul so blessed is not bound by birth or non-birth, by desire of the Knowledge or fear of the Ignorance. It has already had and transcended the Knowledge. It can play with the Ignorance without being imbued with it. It knows the purpose and law of the birth-series. What is this bliss-nature in man? First to be one with all beings in bliss of being, and since love is the human symbol of bliss-unity, to approach this oneness by the way
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