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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
and have not tasted their fragrance.” It is our sufferings and miseries that remind us of the master and the nectar of such remembrance is the substance in which the mind is drowned in ecstasy. The garden has the flowers born out of our suffering and who but one with mad ecstasy in the remembrance of the master would ever think of entering such a garden? For that we need courage and boldness and knowing our weakness he with his enormous love prayed for us to develop such a capacity. Still do we Love Him who loves all?
Another very illuminating sentence which is poetical that comes to my memory is “We can only know the unknown when we become unknown ourselves.” Surely few would think of being without an identity card. I remember a person who was almost compelled by circumstances to resign from his relatively high post carrying a stature and position in society, wailing that he has no identity card to show any one and was lamenting over his fate. I wonder whether this problem is an identity crisis or identity card crisis. Identity card crisis is far
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