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Advanced devotees themselves are of three levels because the form of the Lord that has entered consciousness in the melted state is perceived in three ways. The first is accompanied by the appearance of the world as real, as in the verse: Having no other object of devotion, he bows in worship to ether, air, fire, water, and earth, the celestial bodies, living beings, the four quarters, trees and the like, rivers and oceans, and whatsoever may exist, [seeing them] as the body of Hari. 11.2.41

267 The novice among advanced devotees has this type of The second level is characterized by the perception. apprehension of the manifest world as false: Thus the entire universe--which is unreal in essence, resembling a dream, devoid of intelligence, and painful with much suffering--arises from Maya and appears in Thee, who art the infinite, with eternal consciousness and bliss as Thy nature, as if it were real. 10.14.22 Such a perception belongs to the middle level of advanced devotion. In the third level, the world is not apprehended in either manner. 150 Thus: With While I was meditating on His lotus feet with my mind overcome by devotion and my eyes filled with tears of anguish, Hari slowly revealed Himself in my heart. the hairs of my body standing on end because of the abundance of love, supremely content, lost in a flood of bliss, I could not see either, 151 o Sage. 1.6.17-18 This describes the highest of the advanced devotees. attainment of this highest state is a consequence of the uninterrupted practice of spiritual discipline.