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illumination and the light then never vanishes. The experience of union with God is indescribable.' It is a kind of supersensuous experience; for, Tukārāma says that he received all although nothing, he has been fed without eating anything, he speaks without speaking, hears without hearing, etc.? Tukārāma describes the effects of his union with God in the following manner --"While I utter his name, my throat is cooled; my senses forget their business. It is sweeter and more delicious than nectar; my soul has espoused its cause. The lustre of my body is heightened by nourishment of love; my limbs shake off the triple fever....We need talk of disease no more; all will be satisfied.'3 He describes his state during his union with God. He says ““Our throats are choked, our eyes are filled with tears; further there is an endless shower of joy. I shall enjoy the comfort of this blissful passion, leaving guilt and merit from me." To him everything is filled with Brahınā. He says that the mind becomes stable and the vital breath becomes stranded as he is thoroughly suffused with joy.5 By the favour of Pānąuranga all the intellectual hesitations have vanished. Tukārāma has slept in his own nature by himself. Tukārāma built a house in God
| Fraser J, N. and Maratbe K. B. (Tr.): The Poems of Tukārāma, Vol. II, 599, p. 201.
2 Ibid. 600, p. 201. 3 Ibid. 2106, p. 277. 4 Ibid. 2107, p. 277. 5 Paņashikar (Editor) : Tukārā machi Gäthi, 3537, p. 721. 6 Ibid. 3517, p. 723.
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