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and freedom, reason and insensibility are all synonyms. This is the
reason why grace is bestowed irrationally, either at the end of a
hard way of practice or upon sudden enlightenment. It explains also
why even inanimate things could receive grace; there is nothing else
but only light everywhere.
The state of grace is a special condition which
is not mixed up with the power ( i.e. the Great Goddess ) because this
has no
need of any support. Grace is not equal with Siva the possessor of
power because it is not to be taken for a support. in that state of
grace there is no distinction between subject and object in meditation
or devotion. There is no discrimination between mantra, its objec (ma-
ntrya) and the subject who pronounces it, as well as between initiation,
initiator and initiate. The state of grace rests on Mahesvara who is
neither existent (sat), nor non-existent, and neither existent-cum-non-
existent, nor the negation of it. We can affirm that this mystic state is
the "Without Superior" (anuttara).
The person who has received this grace tran-
scends the realm of words and is firmly established in the ineffable
feeling. Such a person abandons all means of self-realization. He has
dissolved the whole reality into Bhairava's fire of consciousness, viz.
the supreme non-differentiated knowledge. The graced man appraises
the mantra, devotion, meditation, etc, as mere errors, suitable for
the states from neophyte to master, but not for him. He has overcome
all the injunctions and observances established for the period after-
initiation up to the end of life. The only purpose of his phenomenal