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Towards the end of the first Poem the Saint has proclaimed that all those blessed ones who sing the song narrated (Civapuranam) learning fully and realising its meaning will dwell in the sacred place of Civan and go beneath the divine Feet of Civan while many around them humbly praise them (1:92–95). 6. (b)The transcendent Experience: Having been blessed to visualize God's Grace as Effulgence the saint is immersed in an un-precedented ecstatic delight. This and the subsequent states of experiences are governed by the Grace of the Lord. The possibility of enjoying these divine stages depends upon the decent of God in him. The love of God in him is overflowing to see Him without even winking. He desires to embrace Him: merge with Him: imbibe His Grace and even to swallow Him! These stages of spiritual experience are beyond normal human perception and we are attempting to conceive the inconceivable, to realize the unrealizable and apprehend the in- apprehensible. At this state of supramental trannguility the saint speaks not: He knows not what happens! He sings, “I know not myself even as Is Nor do I know the recurrence of day and night! He Who has transcended my mind and speech maddened me. I do not know the wiles He has played on me. I know only the Divine Flame! (34:3)”. He is fully surrounded by a beam of light and transcendent Flame. This is but a preparation for the next higher and supreme state of Bliss perhaps known as Civa thuriyam. This is the state in which God-Civan bestows upon the devotees the transcodent Civan-hood. This is the state which the great Upanishads and Agamas and most of the philosophic doctrines including (the true) Caiva Siddhantha Philosophy conceive of. It is Bliss As the saint has no self of his own, 57