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get loosened and freely float on the water. Divine grace thus loosens the binding bolts and bars of the soul, and it becomes free. So, in this renunciation auxiliary to devotion, there is no harshness, no dryness, no struggle, no repression or suppression. The bhakta has not to suppress any single one of his emotions, he only strives to intensify them and direct them to God.
