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route is not open to Madhusudana.
As an Advaitin, he must
hold that Brahman's only sakti is m膩y膩, which is insentient
(ja岣峚), like the v峁泃ti, and in the final analysis not fully
real. Given the options, then, the identification of bhakti
and bhagavat is Madhus奴dana's natural and indeed only
recourse.
5.6 The Nature of Bhagavat
This of course raises the question of the nature of
bhagavat and the relation of bhagavat to Brahman.
Considering the numerous quotations from the BP found in the
BR and the loving descriptions of the form of K峁涐梗峁嘺 found in
Madhusudana's devotional verses, we might conclude that his
Blessed Lord is an anthropomorphically conceived deity and
that the highest devotional experience is some type of
mystical apprehension of a personal form. But the fact is,
and this would be surprising were The Elixir of Devotion not
written by so rigorous an Advaitin, that the first and most
important chapter of the work is, despite the title, almost
completely lacking in a personalized concept of the Godhead.
Bhagavat appears in the particularized form of K峁涐梗峁嘺,
N膩r膩ya峁嘺, etc., only in the numerous verses of the BP that
are quoted in the text. The sole exception occurs in the
first stanza, where Madhusudana speaks of devotion to
"Mukunda" as the highest goal of life, and in section X,
where he glosses the same stanza as follows: