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Means of Self-Realization questions arise in this regard. Of course, in course of devotion one has to be very calm, collected, stable and make one's mind immovable. Śrīmad cites the axample of Maharși Vyasa to illustrate attraction for devotion and efficacy thereof in self-realization. Śrīmad himself was not content with his own devotion to God, because he had not sung songs of devotion to his heart's content. Śrīmad has said that he himself is passing through the same state of mind as the Maharși.
Śrīmad has defined supreme devotion' as highest stage or level of devotion when the soul amulgamates. or gets integrated with paramātmā. 142 What he means to say is that by such devotion one becomes paramātmā himself. He says that to devote oneself to paramātmā in his incorporeal or imperceptible form is very difficult and hence it is always better to devote to paramātmā in human form. The aspirant must be devotee of an enlightened, pious and realized teacher (jñānī sadguru). because such a teahcer has realized paramātmā, which means he has realized his self and hence he himself has become paramātmā. There remains, therefore no difference between him and paramātmā and devotion to such teacher becomes supreme devotion (parābhakti). It is to be remembered that it is such teachers, through
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