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5. The Path of Liberation The saint Maanickavaachagar points out. “Oh! Great flood of Grace! On my hailing You with love and praying that only Your unique sanctuary will be a sanctuary to me as it is devoid of death and the evil (birth) that follows it, You came and showed Yourself to me.” (30:6). The great Gnosis graciously bestows the transcendent goal on those who worship Him with unopened flowers, contemplate on Him with devotion and praise Him, “Oh! Superb Father!” (29.8). One should therefore pray to Him with ardent love to become eligible to step into the Path of Liberation. Praying to God is not so easy as we have already observed, One must have been endowed with His grace to pray unto Him and then alone he can pray to gain His Grace! Saint Ramalinga Swami out of supreme universal compassion, calls upon and entreats all human beings to pray to God. He has paved the way of praying to God. The first step is to think of God and to think and think incessantly. It amounts to deep introspection, of thinking who am I? What is my mind about? Am I the physical body of the senses? Am I the soul or the life in the body? Am I that which is responsible for the life in the body - (jeevaatma)? Or am I the spirit or soul behind the life? If it is so am I the light of Grace omnipotent as Paramaatma in me as the sages name it? What happens to the soul when life parts from the body? What is life then? Does it rest only in the DNA and R N A molecules in the human cells? Or is it the property to grow and reproduce its kind as Biological Science defines it? What is the soul or spirit then? What is the mind about? Is it a part of the soul o' soul itsclf solely? Soul is the inner life and sum total responMible for the life to be present in the living organism. It is the Mght of Grace (Paramaatma) and because of its presence the Wife 37