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sublimated his sexual urge and transformed it into the Pustibhakti of Kṛṣṇa. Mirăbăi was a widow and was deprived of the enjoyment of her normal married life. She directed all her female feelings of love, adoration, service, and enjoyment to God (Kṛṣṇa) and worshipped Him as her beloved husband and imagined her highest happiness to be the most intense union with God; but it was completely free from sensuousness. Caitanya was highly emotional, charming, delicate and he too sublimated his feelings of love and transferred them to God (Kṛṣṇa), himself assuming the role of Radha. Narasimha Mehta and Tukarama too had to pass through very critical periods of life. Tukarama was terribly shaken by the awful sight of a famine and he experienced failures in business (mercantile) and became unable to satisfy the needs of his family members. He turned desperate and suffered from a sense of loneliness and helplessness. Tukārāma sought the shelter of God (Vithoba) as his mother and sublimated all his urges and worshipped God as his mother and other close relatives. His deep sense of helplessness, loneliness, and impracticality in the worldly life made him sublimate his urges and transfer them to God. Narasimha Mehta was harassed in his worldly life and suffered from a sense of negligence and indifference shown to him by his sister-in-law (his brother's wife), as a result of which he transferred all his love to God and sought for final peace and reliance from Him. Thus it becomes evident from the life-histories of the Philosophers and the Saints that
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