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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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liberation to the people of lower castes and to women. But as he says that those who surrender themselves to God singularly and without reservation, they meet Him as particles of salt dissolve in the ocean-waters, may they be Kṣatriya, Vais'ya, women, irrespective of their descent and family. The real devotee of His will never come to ruin.1
Thus, for the attainment of liberation what is necessary is an exclusive and singular devotion (ananyabhakti-a) to God. God is prepared to meet his devotees in those forms in which they seek to worship Him. God, of course, loves those who do penance (tapaswins), but he attaches greater value to Yogins than to those who are essentially engaged in work and in knowledge. Even among the Yogins, he who loves Him from the heart of his heart with full faith is dearest to Him.3
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Jaanes'vara means by true devotion the vision of identity-in-difference. "There is difference in the world; but, for that reason, knowledge does not become different. There is difference between the limbs of the body, but they all belong to the body. Branches are small and great, and yet they grow on the same tree. The Sun sends an infinite number of rays, but they all belong to the Sun. Thus, in the midst of the differences of individualities, the differences of names, the differences of temperaments, one should know Me as unchanging through all the changes. What1 Jnanes'vari, IX 459-474.
2 Ibid. IV.66.
3 Ibid. VI 474-488.
