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| quoting as authority BP 1.7.10.88 It is important to remember that Madhusudana regards himself as a jIvanmukta as well as a bhakta, and also to be aware that this doctrine of the possibility of devotion in the state of liberation-in- life is a key teaching of his GAD, as we shall see in chapter nine. 5.9 Bhakti Superior to Moksa At this point, we are finally in a position in which we can piece together and make explicit a reasonably clear picture of the BR's for the most part implicit teaching on the relation between bhakti and moksa as "goals of life." To work this out, we need only juxtapose (a) the discussion of the relation between knowledge, non-attachment, and devotion in sections XXV-XXVI; (b) the description of the sixth stage of devotional experience in the commentary on stanza 35, which continues and builds on the thought of (a); and (c) Madhusudana's teaching in both the GAD and the BR on the continuance of bhakti in the state of j墨vanmukti. Viewed together, these teachings make inescapable the conclusion that our author is depicting devotion in its developed stages as a more advanced and more desirable level of spiritual experience than moksa. The Blessed Lord first appears in the melted mind of the devotee as early as stage five, at which point the 194