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mindfully suckles her child, God melted his flesh, increased his inner light, squirted honey of bliss in him and trailed after him from place to place (37:9). The saint has been thinking and thinking of him till all volitional thinking ceased and He out of His Grace rose up and stood in his mind like a rising sun (22:7). On seeing His Light, he sings and prays. == “Oh! Effulgence which rises in my mind as I beg and beg for your Grace and melt and melt with yearning for Your Mercy! (22:6)”. “Oh! Effulgence! Who transforms me into Bliss! Oh! Expanse of Light which pervades the entire universe! (22:8)”. “Oh! Formless unique One! You appear to me in the Form of Effulgence! Oh! Sea of Bliss which severs my bonds! Oh Ineffable Beginning, Middle and End: Oh! Civan of Thirupperunthurai! Bestow on me _Your Feet! Graciously show me the path by which I may go unto You! (22:9)”. “Oh King! Oh our Lord! Bid we come unto You. Oh Prior one to Maal and the one with four heads (Brahma)! Oh our Lord! Bid me come unto You! Oh our Lord the last remaining One after the day when all things have entirely ceased to be! Bid me come unto You! Bid me come to praise you with my tongue out of love for Your twinkling jewelled Feet and sing Your glories! Oh Destroyer of sin!” (5:99). The saint is engulfed by great and soothing effulgence of Grace. At this supramental state of divine experience,the mighty bonds which have been clinging to his mind hitherto are extirpated by His Grace as his mischievous mind itself is being lost. The light of His Grace wipes out the fear of birth in him. When he is thus freed from his deadly bonds, the never-do-well mind and the terrible cycle of death and birth, the saint prays incessantly to go unto Him and visualize His 42