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a personality, a female, subordinate to the Supreme, and to a certain extent, His agent. In the latter capacity, she sets the whole world dancing, yet she herself is set a-dancing, like an actress on the stage, by a movement of the Lord's eyebrows. She sullies everyone even the gods with her temptations; and the deity sometimes sends her forth specially to tempt some pious person who begins to show pride. As the world, the flesh, and the Devil in one, she leads mankind to sin, but, if a man has true bhakti, he is surely armoured against her, and she cannot approach him.1
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Tulasidasa further holds that the pure essence of intelligence of the transcendental principle (Rāma) cannot be fully realised in this world in its pure form. Rāma can be known only by reference to this relative phenomenal life which contains the element of nescience (ajñāna). There cannot be knowledge completely devoid of nescience nor can there be the attributeless (nirguna) without reference to that which possesses attributes (saguna); just as light stands in the need of darkness for its real manifestation. The nirguna can be well expressed and understood only by reference to the saguna. The nirguna cannot be understood without the saguna. Tulasidāsa follows the Bhaktimarga or the path of devotion and knows God by simple, pure, and intense love. He does not, therefore, enter into the details of the jñānamārga or the path of knowledge. As such, at times he inclines to the
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1 Tulasidasa: Rama Carita Manasa, VII. Ch. 116. 2 Shukla Ramchandra: Goswami Tulasidasa, p. 64%
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