Passage 1

In English

Looking at this vast sea of faces, I do not feel like speaking to you; I wish to derive bliss () by just looking at you from here; looking at your devotion and your faith. Your looking at Me, Me looking at you - what else is needed for bliss to well up? You yearn to hear my words and listen to My voice also. That is the measure of your love. You are so accustomed to hearing people speak that if you do not hear, your ears ache! If they do not speak, their tongues become restless and even restive. They are both so used to activity that it has now become difficult for you to sit quietly for a few minutes, communing with the silence within you! Man is called so because people have the capacity to enjoy (inward contemplation of the meaning and significance of what one has heard) - not only this capacity but also the urge to the inner life. But you have not yet emerged out of the stage of listening, and the teachers have not progressed beyond the stage of talking, so you crave My discourse today. recited some fine stanzas composed by him on and on the means of winning His grace, evidently because the day is . The poems are so full of sweetness that you should not discard even the rind. He described the Lord as the indwelling spirit of every living thing and called upon you to practise the unremitting chanting of the Name of the Lord.