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Sūradāsa holds, like his Guru Vallabha, that liberation consists in attaining identity (sāyujyatā) with Kțşņa, living in the Goloka. The jiva's duty is to serve the Lord in the form of its lover; the jiva attains its pure state of supreme bliss only when it experiences itself as full of Kļņa everywhere. The Lord delivers it by showing His grace only when it realises Kțşụa everywhere. Sūradása followed the S'uddha pusți-mărga (J6 grecarie) of Vallabha and believed that such a premabhakti, loving devotion alone is sufficient to fetch liberation (mukti) for the soul. The S'uddha-pusțimärga states that there is not the need for knowledge but there is the need for surrendering all our objects of enjoyment, body, mind, and soul completely to the Lord by realising identity with Him. The Advaita Vedāntins, being negativists, look upon the world as illusory, and experience the light of the Brahman outside the world. But Süradasa depicts his premabhakti in a different manner. It is not his aim to absorb the changing (kşara) world into the immutable (akşara) Brahman, but he makes the changing world (kşara) dependent (ankita) upon the immutable (aksara) Brahman. The Kțsņa of Sūrasagara is of manifold forms and He gives satisfaction to different persons in different ways by assuming the necessary forms. He satisfies all persons in their own different ways. In the final state of liberation, everything becomes one with Kțşņa and one enjoys the supreme
1 Vajpeyi Nandadulare : Mahakavi Süradāsa, pp. 101, 102.
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