self-realization

Sukla as usual presents a critical as well as analytical approach while discussing Sridhara Svami's notion of the God-realization. He enumerates the real nature of bhakti experience by ample number of examples from the Bhagavata Purana as well as Visnu Purana.

He fulfilled the commission by writing The Bagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization. (60) Posthumously edited and printed in two volumes, the book expounds the process of "realizing the Self," which is going from the self (the pseudo soul, or external body and action) to the Self (the discovery of God within).

However, as one's spiritual path deepens and as one gets closer to the state of God-realization, one sees God's form in everything.

But, as Pattnaik rightly points out, "these santhas strictly adhere to bhakti as a means of God-realization" not in terms of emotional attachment as in Alvars or Gaudiya Vaisnavism, but as a matter of Yogic realization done in consonance with body (pinda) and the Cosmos (brahmanda).

unworthy of their holy call to God-realization and guidance to spiritual aspirants.