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Only the curtain of the body remains. When that is removed, jiva and Siva, the soul and the
Supreme Self become one.
29. Thus,
"Upadrashtaa anumantaa cha bhartaa bhoktaa
maheshvarah"
"The Lord is the witness, the assentor, the support, the enjoyer."
Thus progressively we should learn to experience the Lord. At first, the Lord watches as an impartial witness.
Then when the life of morality begins, He encourages us when good things take place through us. When the
devotee discovers that his own efforts are inadequate to cleanse the subtler
impurities of the mind, and calls on Him, this Helper of the helpless
rushes to his aid.
After this, we have to give over to the Lord the fruits of action,
and make Him the Enjoyer. And, in the end, we should surrender to Him the right to resolve and thus fill all our
life with Him. This is the ultimate goal of man, which the saadhaka, the seeker, has to reach flying on the twin
wings of karma-yoga and bhakti-yoga, of action and devotion.
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