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Date Posted: 14:03:05 02/24/04 Tue
Author: Hendrik - 24 Dec 2003
Subject: Parabhakti

The liberated soul freed through the realization of Atman, which is only one aspect of the Lord, still strives to know and merge in the supreme Godhead in all His aspects and existences. Here starts the path of utter self-dedication leading the awakened soul to a vision and status which baffles description. He now beholds the entire universe and all beings, creatures and things in it as the very expression and revealment of the invisible, infinite, immutable, eternal, unthinkable and transcendent supreme Reality. He experiences not only the unchanging calmness and peace of his oneness with God in the universe and beyond but also the bliss of the pure, intimate and loving communion with Him in the visible universe and all activities in it. So it is made clear at the end of the Gita that the highest acme of God-realization is to be a perfect devotee of the Lord - a veritable embodiment of divine knowledge, divine action, and divine love. Such a devotee is the very form and expression of God or God himself in human form. Sri Krishna - the Purushottama has revealed Himself in his (the devotee's) heart and has absorbed him into His ineffable and extremely wonderful Being.

-- Swami Ramdas, The Pathless Path

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