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parabhakti. i.e. the divine yawning towards you, it accepts you. The two way process, till that time it is a one-way process. So, the nivedana can either be before or after, though in our map it has come after. It does not matter much. Then this comes into a state of paramabhakti. i.e., even the master whom we have got, we know that he is there, and we have offered ourselves to him, but we start feeling the presence of Divinity. The breeze of Divinity starts, that is the state that we get at a higher plane which matures itself into a state of prapanna. This paramabhakti becomes prapanna gati later on. It transforms itself into that condition. So, till that time, the Divine infatuation that we talked about earlier, is only infatuation, vyamohamu. Atmanivedana happens and it finally turns out into parama bhakti, where not only He becomes, God himself becomes a matter of adoration for us, everything that He has created becomes a matter of adoration.
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