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BHAKTI-YOGA.
other vain words." Those who talk of Him alone, the bhakta finds to be friendly to him ; while those who talk of anything else appear to him to be unfriendly.
A still higher stage of love is reached when life itself is maintained for the sake of the Ideal of Love, when life itself is considered beautiful and worth living only on account of that Love (featTie ). Without it, such a life would not remain even for a moment. Life is sweet because it thinks of the Beloved. Tadiyata (actuat = Hisness) comes when a man becomes perfect according to bhakti-when he has become blessed, when he has attained to God, when he has touched the feet of his Lord and then his whole nature is purified and completely changed. All his purposes in life become fulfilled then. Yet, many such bhaktas live on
# THE 194 am वाची विमुञ्चथामतपेष सेतुः।
(Mundaka, II. 2—5)
