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DEVOTION
There are nine rasas, nine basic emotions santa, hasya, vatsalya, adbhuta, madhuirya, shoka, krodha, viraha and vismaya. These are nine basic feelings that we have about God. Wonder (Vismaya). That is a feeling you get when you are in the central region. You are really wonder stuck as to what it is. God as a person who can punish me is what most people can think of perhaps, krodha. The cry of God and Master when he says that he is in anguish, how many of you have thought it is the shoka rasa of God. God is crying, when a man says he is in anguish, God is crying and a Master says that he is really crying, have you responded to it, could you think of a kerchief that will clear of some of his tears, was that the bhakti that you were thinking about, santa is what we know, everyone of us experienced that peace, now and then we see the humorous way in which he answers, the hasya also we have appreciated. We can definitely be concerned with the joy of the Master as again that state I have written in “Path of Grace” in Central Region. The Hasya aspect of it comes at much higher state. I am still remembering Rajshekar
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