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left then behind is nothing but Nārāyaṇa and Nārāyaņa alone. Thus, Tukārāma seems to lose himself in the Divine or God and enjoys the joy and peace of the Brahman. It is thus a unitive and supra-rela. tional experience of a mystic in which all the differences vanish, and what remains behind is only the final Reality in itself in the form of God. In it nothing else remains but only God. The senses also are filled with the joy of the Brahman and the love of God showers there. The sweetness of the juice of Brahman (Brahmarasa) is obtained only by him whose passions have quieted down; it is pure and cannot be polluted by the adjuncts of passions. The mind becomes steady in it, and nothing lacks in such an experience. Hari (God) makes him speak by his mouth, that the same Nārāyaṇa dwells in the hearts of all, and hence, one should not bear hatred and envy to others. Although Tukārāma desires to retain his separate individual existence in the final state of union with God, from his poems it becomes clear that he lives not as a separate individual apart from God but lives only in God by becoming God as God takes his possession inside and outside. . Thus, in comparison with the reality of God to him everything appears only illusory. He says"They do not know how the Self is playing with Self; how the ocean has mingled with rivers. The seed now points to the seed: the leaf and flower
1 Panashikar (Editor): Tukarāmachi Gathā, 3511, p. 716. 2 Ibid. 3617, p. 735. 3 Ibid. 3657, p. 742. 4 Ibid. 3684, p. 747.
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