शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

90 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
There is eternal joy however in such a change and passage,
and it may be compared to the great joy of the person passing
from darkness to light and of the blind person recovering his
eyesight.
(c.) This illustration points out that the bodily infirmities or
the effects do not cease altogether even after the touch of the Di-
vine Guru. These infirmities have been so firmly rooted in man
and had become so strong that it takes even sometime after Surguru
Darsan to remove the effects of its former association completely.
During this interval, the soul becoming freed is enjoined to con-
template God, and this last injunction is what is elaborated in
the next Sutra.