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RENUNCIATION FROM LOVE.
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the soul to pass through and reach the lofty regions of Supreme Devotion or ParaBhakti. Then it is that we begin to understand what Para-Bhakti is—and the man who has entered into the inner shrine of the Para-Bhakti, has alone the right to say, that all forms and symbols are useless to him as aids to religious realisation. He alone has attained that supreme state of love which is commonly called, the brotherhood of man -the rest only talk of it. He alone sees no distinctions! The mighty ocean of love has entered into him, and he sees not men, animals and plants or the sun, moon and the stars, but beholds his Beloved everywhere and in everything. Through every face shines to him his Hari. The light in the sun or the moon is all His manifestation. Wherever there is beauty or sublimity, to him it is all His. Such bhaktars are still living—the world is never without them. Such, even while bitten by a serpent, only say that a messenger came for
