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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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devotee enjoys all the joys of God. God's company gives him the sweetness of nectar and he becomes eternally free from karmas and rebirth. Such a state can be attained only by profound love, by singular and exclusive devotion to God, and by the destruction of egoity. Egoity is the cause of pain in the -worldly life.
Tukārāma depicts his ultimate Reality-God, whom he addresses frequently as Vithoba, Vitthal, Vithai, Kṛṣṇa and Rama. God is deathless and He persists in all the times. He looks upon God as his innermost soul and holds that He persists in all the three stages of his life and that He is deathless.1 God is infinite, unembodied, inconceivable, incapable of falling, devoid of attributes, intelligent and Supreme. He has neither form, nor name, nor place of abode. He is present wherever we go. He knows neither form nor change of form; He pervades the moving and immovable world. He is neither with nor without attributes. Tukarama holds, like Jñanes'vara, that God is not only devoid of the three attributes, but He transcends all dualities and distinctions. Going further he holds that God is extremely subtle, and hence, He is greater than the skies and yet the very centre of an atom."
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1 Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.) The Poems of Tukarama, Vol. I, 172, p. 65.
2 Ibid. Vol. II, 1646, p. 153.
3 Ibid. 1651, p. 154.
4 Ibid. 1648, p. 153.
