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stage of parabhakti i.e. bhakti towards the Divine develops, it is very difficult to come out of this vyamoha because nychyaanusandaanamu actually accepts some other guru as most important because the feeling there is ‘I am very low before my Master’. Then there is possible that you becoming attached to Him to such an extent that you forget the goal itself and that is the stage of vyamoha that you get.
That can be co-traveler actually and if it were to be Vipranarayana, if were to be case of attaching to co- traveler belonging to opposite sex, social criticisms can not be ruled out. You get into that problem. That is incidental to the whole issue. For our issue of spirituality it is incidental but social repercussions are possible, slander is possible.
Dhanurdasa keeps roaming around with a knife saying if he sees someone he will kill him. It is vyamoha only, we cannot say no. He is attached so much to the Ranganadha temple, he thinks if anybody talks against it, he will kill.
Gorakhnath was also attached to a woman, in the path only. She was a righteous woman and the disciple was
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