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and deaths. It is an experience of perfect and indistinguishable identity; just as water seems to be one with the sky reflected in it. The devotee becomes completely forgetful of the objects of sense as he becomes one with God, just as the Ganga becomes one with the sea at their confluence.3 Tukārāma obtained the final rest and he was free from all botherations and engagements of the wordly life. As all the wordly experiences come to an end, what ultimately remains there is the experience, experiencing the experience of God, only one joy filling the whole universe being left.* All had become God just as gur is sweet through and through. All the illusions are overcome and the world is seen to be filled with Visņu through and through, leaving no place for distinction.
In the final state of liberation the jiva becomes one with God by losing all the separative individual consciousness just as a piece of salt should completely dissolve in water and become one with it without leaving any trace of its original nature behind or camphor should completely burn and disappear along with the fire.? Everything being offered to the fire of Brahman the jīva completely negates its body. What is
1 Panashikar (Editor) : Tukārā machi Gathā, 3559, p. 725. ? Ibid. 3570, p. 727. 3 Ibid. 3584, p. 729. 4 Ibid. 3592, p. 737. 5 Ibid. 3605, p. 733. 8 Ibid. 3679, p. 746. 7 Ibid. 3493, p. 713.
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