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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Ātman and Moksa
treasure of spiritual knowledge, it diffuses the lustre of a million suns, arises in thy worshipper's soul. I have now beheld him in whose sight is all goodness, a sea of happy augury, the supreme power of mystic words. I have attained him, whose name is nectar, whose nature is pure, intellect free from passion. The very joy of peace and compassion is found in this joy, that accompanies the knowledge of the being and knowing God..... Pandhari has unfolded the delight of infinite joy.....". Thus, Tukārāma enjoys the highest joy of God. He achieves unending satisfaction from the sight of Him. He says --"I have tasted a sweet taste, my stomach is filled, for his name suddenly occured to me....." “All his desires are accomplished....I have found peace and repose; my distress vanished when I remembered him.... God dwells in my speech, he never stirs from my side; within me I feel a stream of life..... The measure is filled and heaped up, and it overflows like the Ganges in flood."2 Thus Tukārāma's heart overflows with the love and joy of God. All his distresses are ended and he is lost in the sea of love. God is the essence of the whole world, and he thus, attains the essence of all. He says —"My spirit is infused into this essential juice of all; my joy is unbounded; in him who pervades the world I have found father, family and bosom friend : I recognise them all under one name." It is a kind of
1 Fraser J. N. and Marathe K. B. (Tr.): The Poems of Tukārāma, Vol. I, 573, p. 193.
2 Ibid. 580-581, p. 196. 3 Ibid. 588, p. 198.
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