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Chapter 16
Even a detached and dispassionate striver, has a latent desire to live. But he has no covetousness, for sense-objects, as his aim is only God-realization, rather than to nourish his body.
But, when he develops his devotion to God, He becomes dearer to him, than even his life-breath and he addresses Him, as 'the Lord of life-breath' or 'Dearer than life-breath' etc. He can even die, for Him because he cannot bear any separation, from God. He sacrifices, even his life happily for Him, in the same way, as a chaste wife, at the death of her husband, bums herself on her husband's funeral pyre willingly and happily. It means, that when a devotee develops exclusive devotion to God, he is, no more attached to his life, his demoniac nature, totally comes to an end, and divine nature is spontaneously revealed, in him. Gosvami Tulasidasa, has also mentioned in the Ramacaritamanasa, that hidden traces of internal impurity, can never be removed without, the water of devotion.
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