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When does a devotee get total experience?

 

Bhakti finds its fulfilment in. mukti Till then, we can't say that a

devotee has got total experience. Total experience is purnan ubhavam,

advaitanandam, a state of non-dual bliss, brahmanandam, Supreme bliss,

and nityanandam, eternal bliss. A simple example, A river flows

incessantly. There may be a number of obstacles in its way. Yet, the

river flows on taking different turns. It overcomes the obstacles and

proceeds forward. How long and how far? It must reach the ocean and

merge in it. The ocean does not permit the merger so easily. It drives

away the river or pushes it out. Still the river does not give up its

attempt. Finally, as the ocean tides rise the river merges. When layam,

sayujyam, merger of the two takes place, there the river finds

vis'ranti and pras'anti, rest and peace.

 

Similar is the relationship between a devotee and God. The flow of

devotion leading to merging in God is sadhana. The river merging in the

ocean is the merger of the individual jiva with brahman, which is known

as jiva -brahmaikyata; a state of perfect merging or unison of jivatma

and paramatma or jiva and brahman.