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...It is especially important to note here that the tradition ultimately promotes a devotion that delicately balances passion with humility in the concept or experience of viraha-bhakti ("devotional love in separation"). The highest form of intimacy with the deity is understood by this school as love in separation. The Bhakti Sutra describes viraha, out of eleven different types of loving attachment to God, as the highest process: "Devotion in separation from the Beloved is the highest devotion of all (paramavirahasakti)"
...It is especially important to note here that the tradition ultimately promotes a devotion that delicately balances passion with humility in the concept or experience of viraha-bhakti ("devotional love in separation"). The highest form of intimacy with the deity is understood by this school as love in separation. The Bhakti Sutra describes viraha, out of eleven different types of loving attachment to God, as the highest process: "Devotion in separation from the Beloved is the highest devotion of all (paramavirahasakti)"
(Bhakti Sutra, text 82).