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nothing ugly. One moves out of soundarya lahari. Lahari is water. Soundarya lahari is the gross distortion of the nature of the Mother. The mother is never ugly, which factor is known to every human being, he never judges his mother by her beauty. The mother may be the ugliest woman in the world but still it is the mother that one loves. The soundarya that is granted to the mother by the soul is always beyond soundarya. The Mother transcends the concepts of beauty. It is something more.
Paramabhakti means everything in the universe is treated as divine only. It is not intellectual, not even a question of awareness, the attitude is bhakti. To know that everything is Divine is one stage. ‘isavasyam idam sarvam...’ sounds alright but that is not the stage here. It is not just the awareness of isavaasyam. The awareness leads to this tendency in you of reverence to everything - bhakti. There is nothing irreverential here, it is a stage where you can get into a state of avadhoot also, that is the misfortune.
Paramabhakti has also got a negative factor. A person in paramabhakti may again and again want to come back. Babuji Maharaj also says that he doesn’t understand why
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