This love and devotion to God who is Love Himself begets joy and bliss which completely fulfils our highest desire, unlike the joys of the world, which ever and anon create a gnawing desire, a thirst after such more and more, like the unquenched

"The Ancient one who dwells in the heart-lotus of Jnanis who had controlled the five senses and killed the six foes, and whose heart blossoms with Love." thirst of the confirmed drunkard. This supreme Bliss Rest and Joy fill our hearts like the flood brooking not its banks, when in all humility and love, our body and soul are devoted to His service.

When this joy fills him, then does he revel in God, delight in God and rest in God as the Mundaka Up. (III. i. 4) puts it; then does he love God, delight in God, revel in God and rejoice in God, and become a Svaraj, and Lord and master in all the worlds, as the Chandogya Up. (VII. 25. 2) puts it.

In this condition of Svaraj, when he is fully God-filled, even when he moves about there laughing or eating, playing or rejoicing, be it with women, carriages or relations (Chandog. Up. VIII. 12. 3)., these actions will not affect him as fire cannot burn a man skilled in agni-stambha (See principle stated in Sivajnana Siddhiyar X. 5 and 6).

This position has therefore to be clearly distinguished from the ethics and psychology of both Buddhists and Sankhyans. The Y6gi and the Siddhanti believe that true salvation can be secured only by such Self-renunciation and Love to God.

That it is only possible to get rid of our mala by attaching ourselves to the Supreme Paramesvara is brought out also by St. Tiruvalluvar:

" Desire the desire of Him who is desireless. Desire His Desire so as desire may leave you."

"The true support who knows, rejects support he sought before, Sorrow that clings shall cease and cling to him no more."

"The two kinds of dark karma will cease from one, whose praise is, he is devoted to God."

Compare this with the Christian aspiration after Divine joy.

'If, to any, the tumult of the flesh were hushed, hushed the images of earth, and waters, and air, hushed also the poles of heaven, yea the very soul be hushed to herself, and by not thinking on self, surmount self, hushed all dreams and imaginary revelations, every tongue and every sign, and whatsoever exists only in transition, since if any could hear, all these say, 'we made not ourselves, but He made us that abideth for ever.' If then, having uttered this, they too should be hushed, having roused only our ears to Him Who made them, and He alone speak, not by them, but by Himself, that we may hear His Word, not through any tongue of flesh, nor Angel's voice, nor sound of thunder, nor in the dark riddle of a similitude, but, might hear Whom in these things we love, might hear His very self without these (as we too now strained ourselves, and in swift thought touched on that Eternal Wisdom, which abideth over all); could this be continued on, and other visions of kind far unlike be withdrawn, and this one ravish, and absorb, and wrap up its beholder amid these inward joys, so that life might be for ever like that one moment of understanding which now we sighed after; were not this, enter into thy Master's joy? (St. Augustine).'

We have used above the illustration of crystal and colours whether that of the red flower or the variegated clouds. Pure water is crystalline in its nature and it reflects and refracts light just as a prism does*. This water is discoloured and affected by the dirt in it, and when our ahankara and the dirt subside, the water regains its own pure clear nature, and then the reflexion of the Supreme One fills it with His glory and this is the truth contained in the famous central verse (Hridaya sloka) in St. Tirumular's Tirumantiram.

*In the famous spring at Mahanandi near Nandyal (Kurnool District), you can see the actual phenomena of the refraction of light; just as the water ripples in sunlight, all the colours of the rainbow can be seen on the bottom of the spring.

O ye fools that speak of the unspeakable,

Can ye see the limits of the limitless one?

To one whose mind gains clearness as the waveless sea,

Will appear faultless the Lord with the braided Hair.