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90. పరమ భకత్ి (Parama bhakti)
At this stage not only God becomes adorable, but also everything that He created becomes so. Here good is seen as good and bad is seen as bad but the state of mind here does not try to distinguish between good and bad. Ethics get transcended. The consciousness here is incapable of finding fault with any thing. The breeze of Divinity starts resulting in reverential attitude to everything.
Every creature in the creation is seen as superior to oneself. Here ahimsa is matured, astheya is total and brahmacharya is established. The will of the Master is one’s will, no questions are asked and there is implicit obedience to the Master. It is beginnings of the stage of muni i.e. one who silently obeys the Master.
There is beauty in paramabhakti. What is called soundarya lahari, the beauty of God comes here. To cross this we need gurukrupa which pushes us out. The question that is relevant here is, is there any thing like ugly? For a person in the stage of paramabhakti, there is 190































































































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