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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Tulasidasa says that having ignited the fire of Yoga (contemplation) let one offer in it his good and bad deeds; and when the dross of egotism (attachment) is burnt away, intellect would not cool as the pure butter (ghee) of knowledge.' The jiva is governed by Māyā, and as long as it does not get rid of it, its native Lordly nature cannot be revealed. Perfect happiness can be attained only by complete selfsurrender to the Lord, self-control, and proper discrimination.2 Those who are totally devoid of all desires and are completely merged in devotion to the Lord, swim happily like fish in the lake of divine love.3
Suradasa
Sūradāsa, a famous poet and saint of the Northern India, is revered equally with Tulasidāsa. Sūradāsa lived in 16th century and is held to be born sometime between 1474 and 1480 A.D. There is no unanimity on his birth date. He was a little younger than Vallabhācārya whom he had accepted as his preceptor (Guru). Sūradāsa was a highly gifted and talented poet and he was blind for the major period of his life. He possessed unique powers of poetic composition as he possessed high power of imagination and sound knowledge of rhythm and classical music. He was thoroughly devoted to Kṛṣṇa, and his famous work the Surasagara () is an exhaustive picture of the life of Srikisha right from the childhood to the later period of life. Süradāsa was asked to com
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1 Kannoo Mal Lala: The Sayings of Tulasidasa, 93, p. 40. 2 Ibid. 90, 97, 106, 112.
Ibid. 114, p. 47.
