The devotee goes through many stages on the spiritual path; some difficult and some blissful. There comes a time of immense feelings of separation and tears of longing. The devotee also passes through the dark night of the soul where the heart is dry and devoid of feeling; God seems nowhere near and life seems to have no meaning.

      Long asleep in delusion, the devotee keenly feels the desire to be awake in Truth and bathed in Divine Light where darkness cannot dwell.