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THE FORMS OF LOVE-MANIFESTATION
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tensely in love with women, or women with men, hey feel a kind of natural annoyance in the presence [ all those whom they do not love. Exactly the ime state of impatience, with regard to things that re not loved, comes to the mind, when Para-Bhakti olds sway over it; even to talk about things other han God becomes distasteful then. "Think of Him, hink of Him alone, and give up all other vain words" qoyaret fazją). Those who talk of Him alone, he Bhakta finds to be friendly to him; while those cho talk of anything else appear to him to be unriendly. A still higher stage of love is reached when ife itself is maintained for the sake of the one Ideal of Love, when life itself is considered beautiful and worth living only on account of that Love
aceh Ta). Without it, such a life would not remain even for a moment. Life is sweet because it thinks of the Beloved. Tadiyatâ (actuat=“Hisness”) comes when a man becomes perfect according to Bhakti; when he has become blessed, when he has attained God, when he has touched the feet of God, as it were. Then his whole nature is purified and completely changed. All his purpose in life then becomes fulfilled. Yet, many such Bhaktas live on just to worship Him. That is the bliss, the only pleasure in life, which they will not give up. “O king, such is the blessed quality of Hari that even those who have become satisfied with everything, all the knots of whose hearts have been cut asunder, even they love the Lord for love's sake”-the Lord "Whom all
