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master mind could judge what a vast difference is there between undisturbed calmness of spirit and the agitating uneasiness of vaunted glory. At last collecting himself, the learned sage spoke out in a tone of humility, in a spirit of submission. Two things were uppermost in his mind. He lived and moved and had his being in Vedanta. So he wanted to know from The Lord what was His idea about it. And again, he could not for the world imagine what ecstatic joy there might be that could make a man dance and sing and shed tears as The Lord and His followers did. So this was also what he wanted to know from The Lord.
So sweetly and feelingly and at the same time in such a masterly way did The Lord reply, that every word of His acted as a miracle—it sent a thrill of joy to every heart. His learned and lucid exposition of the Vedanta philosophy and in that connexion the holy Vedas and His final deduction of the Truth—that God is All Love and He is to be attained and worshipped with love which is the summum bonum of human life, and that, as God is All-Bliss, the world too is all blissful—simply charmed them all and made them feel that Sree Gauranga is God Incarnate and that He came down to the earth not only as the Saviour of mankind but also to transform this world into Golok or the Highest Heaven of love. And last of all He said that taking the Names of Hari[1] is the simplest, easiest
- ↑ The word Hari is derived from the root Hri which
