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“While I melted with increasing love, He showed His Mercy and His jewelled Feet to me. When I thawed He extirpated my misery and graciously made me His own” (43:9). “Oh! Effulgent Lamp! You betowed on this slave Yourself Who severs the root of my Paasam (bonds) and You being pleased with my worship entered my mind and showed me Your blossom Feet” (37:7). “Oh! Sage! While my bones melted You conferred Your Grace on me! You showed me Your twin blossom Feet and made me Your own! (44:3). The saint is now free from the painful and powerful bonds and his wandering mind. He has not only visualized his own self but has seen the Light of Grace and His Feet. Though these experiences are very high and incomprehensible, he is not pleased with these. So he prays and meditates for His Mercy night and day. He sings, “Oh! Primeval One! You are the beginning and the end of all things. You entered me and abide in me who is steeped in Karma You announced Yourself “I am so and so’ and as if you would say, “Come! I am destroyer of Karma”, enslaved me”. “This day out of Grace to me You rise in my mind like a sun dispelling the darkness therein” (22:7). He is thus free from the (Malam) bonds pretty well. It appears, however, that these supramental states have to be experienced several times before he gains the next higher superior and divine stages. It is evident that the soul of the saint is completely devoid of all the three Malam such as Aanavam, Karma and impure Maya. (Suddha Maya (PureMaya) has yet to mediate for the grant of Supreme Grace in full measure). The sanction is not still so easy! The 45