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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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So are you, not separate from Brahman. With this belief firmly established, the feeling of real unity will grow, and that is what is called devotion. Guidance from this sense of unity is itself wisdom."1
Jñanes'vara holds that liberation consists in the final unity of the devotee with God where no trace of a distinction is left. It is a kind of unitive experience which is obtained only intuitively and it is mystical in character. Jñanes'vara puts the following passage in the mouth of Kțsaa – "This is the final goal of Yoga. Just as between the cloud and the ocean, when rain is falling, all the three appear to be one, so must be the consciousness of unity (between the three, viz., the universe, the individual, and Brahman). Space contained in the well and space contained in the sky are the same. So are the awakened soul and Brahman, one From the sun to the reflection of the sun in water, there is the light of the sun. So far the sage has the feeling of "I am Brahman" all over the universe. When the mind will admit nothing else except the notion that “I am Brahman", the highest branches of learning disappear. A lump of salt, when once dissolved in the ocean, cannot dissolve any more. When the straw has been burnt out, fire is also put out. When duality has been removed wisdom (jñāna) itself goes away. Then the feeling that “I, the Lord of the Universe, am great, and My devotee is a humble being", also goes. There is eternal unity..... This
1 Jnānes'vari, XIV · 372 to 390. See --Subedar Mapu : Jñanes' vari (Tr.), p. 230.
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