Passage 1

In English

described very realistically the childhood pranks of and explained their significance. That refreshed you, as I can see, for you felt them and experienced them. is the embodiment of truth and virtue (), so there is a sternness about Him. But is love (), and His story confers bliss () quickly and spontaneously to one and all. The love in the human heart responds to the call of that divine Love; it surges up and overflows. came with yogic power () as his brother and the power of illusion () as His Sister. That is how Supreme Power () gets born. , the mother, could not take in the splendour of the divine form, with all its inseparable glory, so the child had to be transferred at His own request to , who had prayed that she should be favoured with the privilege of being the foster-mother of the Lord! Contact with the Divine is said to confer the boon of liberation from the bonds of . So, when the infant was taken by ’s hands, the chain that bound them fell off; the bolts flew from the prison door, the locks opened of themselves. When he moved on toward the river , the floods parted in front of him.