Beauty ＆ Pure 135

O Arunachala! Removing my deluded attachment (to sense objects), Thou hast
made me attached to Thee. Yet, why hast Thou not removed this attachment ?

It is by a sort of homoeopathic treatment that the world disease of the
soul is to be remedied. The root of the soul’s
disease is attachment to sense objects. Attachment to the finite, and the
fleeting cannot yield real happiness. Under
the spell of delusion the soul imagines that the objects are the sources of
its joy and gets attached to them. In order that the
soul may be saved from sorrow, it must be detached from the objects. This
may be done in several ways. But the surest and
safest way is to make the soul attached to God. God-love is the potent
remedy for curing the malady of lust for objects.
For cultivating the love of God, God’s grace is absolutely necessary. It is
by His grace that He has to be worshipped.
The soul’s journey to its goal, however, should not stop with the
establishment of worshipper-worshipp ed relation with
God. While the relation with the divine serves to remove the relation with
the undivine, it itself cannot be left unsublated.
The worshipper-worshipp ed relation sublimates all other relations.
And, that itself gets transcended in Advaita experience.
It is for this state of transcendence that the devotee-soul prays in the