Beauty ＆ Pure 9

O Arunachala! Thou who art undefiled! Do bestow Thy grace on me so that I
may always be happy, gaining union with Thee.

God is the sole undefiled reality. Defilements are caused by nescience,
egoity and their brood. God is untouched by any of these. Patanjali in his
Yoga Sutra declares that God is untouched by hindrances or deeds or

fruition or by latent deposits. The Upanishads say that the impurities of
the world do not affect its source even as the defilements that are noticed
in the sky do not belong to ether. God is eternally pure,
awakened and released (nitya-suddha- buddha-muktasvab hava).
Hence, the devotee-soul addresses God here as the ‘undefiled’. It is the
ever pure God alone that can save the soul by bestowing His Grace on her.
What is the effect of the bestowal of Grace? It is the gaining of union
with God.
This is true happiness for the devotee-soul. This is called true happiness
because it is unmixed with misery and is eternal. It is everlasting,
unexcelled happiness (nitya niratishaya ananda). Realizing this happiness
is the goal of bridal mysticism.