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interest in others.' But the individual's efforts and austerious penance are not necessarily sufficient to lift them up to Him (God).
Rāmānuja says —" And with equal certainty we know from Scripture that this Supreme Lord, when pleased by the faithful worship of his Devotees
- which worship consists in daily repeated meditation on Him, assisted by the performance of all the practices prescribed for each caste and as'rama - frees them from the influence of Nescience which consists of Karman accumulated in the infinite progress of time and hence hard to overcome; allows them to attain to that supreme bliss which consists in the direct intuition of His own true nature; and after that does not turn them back into the miseries of samsāra."? Thus, God, when pleased, shows His grace to the prapanna (59407) or surrendered devotees, picks them up, and keeps them in his own company for ever. The powers of such released soul then remain no more eclipsed and diminished as when in saṁsāra but they fully develop in it and it has all its being in the supremely blissful intuition of the highest Brahman. As the soul enjoys all the infinite glories and auspicious qualities of Isvara and are evercontented there remains no need for and possibility of entertaining any desire to come back to the earth to enjoy the earthly pleasures which are too inadequate and worthless for it. Moreover, God, who so
Rāmānuja : Vedārtha Sangraha, p. 146.
2 Rāmānuja Com. on Vedānta Sūtras. Tr. Thibaut, 4.4.22, p. 770.
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