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Sindhussaridvallabham.
The rivers, which take rise in distant mountains rush forth with
turbulent avidity to flow into the sea. The rivers become
one with the waters of the
sea and their water becomes salty even as the seawater is salty.
The attraction
in all these cases is natural and spontaneous, not a calculated or artificial one.
At the start they feel separate from that to which each of them is attracted. But
they cannot subsist in their separation. The seed, the needle, the
Saadhvee, the
creeper and the rivers find the, fulfillment of their being in the union and eventually,
in their identity with that which alone makes for their completion.
To the Saadhvee i.e. the
pativrataa, the true wife, her
husband is her all. He is her very life. Separation from him even for a second
causes her intense anguish. The rivers rise on mountaintops, where clouds pour out
what they took out from the sea, their original source and the ultimate goal. They
flow in torrents and fall in cascades, roaring with fury betokening their eagerness to
meet their lord, the saridvallabha and then they
merge in its bosom.
In these
successive ways does the true devotee pine for God and draw himself to him. The
final example illustrates the intense thoroughness of devotional attraction with the
background of the ultimate Advaitic truth. Devotion is the link between the devotee
and Deity. The devotee is unhappy in separation from God. He longs for union
with the Supreme Being. Separation signifies duality, dvaitabhaava.
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