THE SPIRITUAL PATH

Sindhussaridvallabham.  The rivers, which take rise in distant mountains rush forth with turbulent avidity to flow into the sea. The rivers become one with the waters of the sea and their water becomes salty even as the seawater is salty.

The attraction in all these cases is natural and spontaneous, not a calculated or artificial one.   At the start they feel separate from that to which each of them is attracted.   But they cannot subsist in their separation.  The seed, the needle, the Saadhvee, the creeper and the rivers find the, fulfillment of their being in the union and eventually, in their identity with that which alone makes for their completion. 

 To the Saadhvee i.e. the pativrataa, the true wife, her husband is her all.  He is her very life.  Separation from him even for a second causes her intense anguish.   The rivers rise on mountaintops, where clouds pour out what they took out from the sea, their original source and the ultimate goal.  They flow in torrents and fall in cascades, roaring with fury betokening their eagerness to meet their lord, the saridvallabha and then they merge in its bosom.

In these successive ways does the true devotee pine for God and draw himself to him.   The final example illustrates the intense thoroughness of devotional attraction with the background of the ultimate Advaitic truth.  Devotion is the link between the devotee and Deity.  The devotee is unhappy in separation from God.  He longs for union with the Supreme Being.  Separation signifies duality, dvaitabhaava.

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