In the absence of perception full of water, (i.e., knowledge melting with love and devotion) that state is not (fully realised).

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19. In the absence of perception full of water, (i.e., knowledge melting with love and devotion) that state is not (fully realised).

Perception full of water, i.e., knowledge attended with love (devotion); without devotion the likeness which the soul bears to the Lord, (the essential nature of the soul), does not become fully manifest (revealed), for the Shruti says, “To him whom the gracious Lord chooses, He is accessible; and to him the gracious Lord discovers his pure self” (Kath. II.23). “Bhakti (or devotion to a thing) is said to consist of the knowledge of its greatness joined to a love for it; and it is by such devotion that the bliss, etc., which form the essential nature of the soul are fully permitted to be realised” (Padma).

20. Of that devotion, etc., (a higher degree) and (a lower degree) are to be admitted, as all are included under the devout doss; for only then justness on the part of the Lord towards both would be (seen).

Of the devotion, knowledge, etc., stated before, there exists the difference of degree (or a certain gradation, in different souls); for the exalted souls like Brahma, etc., are included under (the category of) the devoted; (and they are entitled to a higher measure of bliss than the Rishis and men of the highest order who are entitled to it in varying degrees). Only then, i.e., only on the admission of gradation in (the intensity of) devotion, etc., the even-handedness of the Lord towards Brahma and others on the one hand, and the other souls on the other hand can be explained. It is said in the Brahmapurana thus: “The more efficacious the means are, the more exalted are the fruits which Brahma and other exalted souls obtain only in the order spoken of in the Ananda Shruti. [According as the means (devotion, etc.), are superior, Brahma and others obtain also superior fruits, in the regular gradation in which they are declared in the Shruti, describing the gradation of bliss in heaven].

Whence (is this gradation)?

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