SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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THE FOUR PATHS.
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He, the seven notes, their joy, the sweet ambrosia, my very friend
who is with me even in my mischiefs, my Lord who gave me my beauti
ful-eyed Paravai, my Lord of Aiur, how can I, the poor fool, be separated
from Him ?
In life, have you felt the hundredth part of this love for
your friend, the gnawing pain at heart when, you were
separated and the boundless joy when you met ?
These are then the four paths or mar gas, Chary a, Kriya
Y6ga and Jnana, otherwise called Dasa, Satputra and Saha
and Sanmarga. And the various duties assigned under each,
are only such as our love of the master or father or friend or
lover will induce us to manifest in tokens of our love. These
duties are meaningless except as tokens of our love and as
disciplining us to love and love more God and his creatures.
Even though, with bones for firewood,
The flesh is torn to lines and burnt, like gold in fire,
Except to those who internally melt themselves into Love,
God is not accessible.
These duties are for the Dasa Margi,