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and rituals, abstraction of thought, or Yoga-concentration and fasting, nor with prayer, almsgiving, and self-mortification.'
When one attains the vision of Rāma other desires disappear and the influence of Māyā dwindles. The liberated soul attains supreme and everlasting bliss. The good soul is like the Mānasa lake and in it is the pure water of the sweet glory of Rāma. Sin is washed off and the heart becomes pure and one becomes holy and blessed by the Divine grace of Rāma without the fear of returning any more to the sufferings of the worldly life.?
Tulasidāsa believes that unless one becomes free from lust, attachment, and greed one cannot attain final liberation. Lust, anger, and greed are three inveterate enemies of man. They disturb the tranquillity of the minds of even great and holy sages.3 The pure persons go to salvation and the impure and lustful to hell. The devotee requires to purify himself morally and then, to surrender to God with all trust and faith. Tulasidasa says “Without trust there is no faith or love. Without faith the Lord does not show His grace, without His grace there is no peace in the mind." By cultivating moral purity the intellect gets purified and refined, and then it becomes capable of knowing Ráma properly.
i Carpenter J. E.: Theism in Medieval India, p. 518.
2 Bhandarkar R, G.: Vaisnavism, saivism and Minor Religious Systems, p. 75. ! 3 Kanpoo Mal Lala': The Sayings of Tulasi dā sa, 24, p. 17,
4 Ibid. 62, p. 29.
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