SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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27O ADVAITA ACCORDING TO THE AiVA SIDDHANTA.
thirst of the confirmed drunkard. This supreme
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.
Bliss Rest
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.
these actions will not affect him as fire cannot
Up. VIII. 12. 3.),
burn a man skilled in agni-stambha (See principle
Sivajnana Siddhiyar X. 5 and 6).
stated in
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 Paramfcbvara is brought out also
by St. TiruvaJluvar
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Desire the desire of Him who is desireless.
Desire His Desire so as desire may leave you."
QiBffiu."
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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."