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

ELEVENTH SUTRA. 107
NOTES.
The last Sutra treated of Pasatchaya and the present one
treats of attaining Pathi Gnana or Anubava. Leaving the case
of those who postulate utter annihilation at this stage, in which
case of course there could be no union (illustration 2c) and of
those who postulate no Anubava at all, this Sutra points out how
this Anubava arises. This Anubava is an Anubava of the soul
in one sense, though not so in another sense. Here there is
Adwaitham again. Dr. Bain instances the case of a man enjoying
the keen pleasures of a warm bath as one of pure objective feeling
or attitude; or as we would put it, it is the case of the man
enjoying the pleasures of a cool bath during a hot day or what
comes to the same thing, of the man who gets under the cool
shelter of a spreading banyan tree (அடி நீழல்) after a hot and
weary walk during the midday sun. Now substitute for the
mind, the soul freed of Pasa and for the cool bath or cool
shade, the Glorious Divine Light and its effulgence which per-
meates the soul through and through and diffuses all round 'it.
and completely bathes it in its Arul, and conceive then the soul's
feeling of pleasure, its Anantha, Bliss. It is the soul that no
doubt feels primarily but it ceases to live as such, and that
very moment it becomes transformed into the Divine Feeling or
Anubava itself. Just as the mind, when enjoying the pleasure
of a bath, becomes purely objective, the soul becomes purely
Divine when it feels His Arul and God covers it with Bliss
(Illustration 1 b). As you feel the coolness of the bath or the
shade more and more, your pleasure increases, so, as the soul feels
His Arul more and more, its love of the Lord increases. So
it is this (அயரா அன்பு) undying love, True Bhakti, that is the