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in the case of many saints. The feeling that He is the father slowly yields to the more abstract notion that He is the protector in every sense of the term. He becomes the refuge for any and every problem. This leads to the feeling that He is the Master and we are the serfs and after sufficient travel in these states the knowledge that He is the one who should be known, seen and entered into strikes root. In this buffer we spend considerable time till we are pushed out by the Master to the next stage. Here we start developing personal relationship with Him and feel He is our beloved and His company is something that is sought for all the time. Since the state of the lover and the beloved is not complete here we feel many times betrayed and lost on the path. We start crying without any reason as the inner psyche desperately feels the need for the awareness of the beloved and assurance that He is close by. The next state is a further refinement of our feeling that He is the foundation of our existence and we are non entities without him. The transition from the state of interdependency to that of Devotion starts. This leads further that we are objects of His enjoyment and that we should do everything to see that He is pleased with our actions, feelings, thoughts and our very existence. We tend to make ourselves as perfect and pure as
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