In English
Love of the milk maids is beyond physical awareness
In the divine story, you will observe one special fact: no incident is unconnected with the rest, no happening is without significance. For example, exterminated the rulers of his time by systematic campaigns directed against each. How then, why then, did and survive? The truth of the matter is: made two exceptions under which his victims could save themselves and survive. This secret was known only to these two survivors. He had resolved within himself that he would not kill a bridgegroom or a person engaged in a ceremonial sacrifice. So, whenever reached the frontiers of their kingdoms and was on the point of crossing them, got himself initiated in preparation for a cermonial sacrifice and fitted himself out as a bridgegroom about to wed another princess. Of course, this was according to the divine plan, for had to live to get and had to discover . The love of the milk maids () of , about which so much philosophical speculation and analysis was made before you, is, let Me tell you, the genuine love that is beyond physical awareness (), that is unaffected by praise or blame. It is not like the thin filament of oil floating on water, which comes off on the finger when it is touched. It is like the lotus stalk, which penetrates deep down through all the layers of water into the soil underneath - while the leaf floats above, unaffected by the water, which gives it the essential environment. People should struggle similarly to rise above the sensory world, which is their inevitable environment. The sensory world tempts you to strive for this triviality and that, but, like the milk maids, you should discard the hankering and fix your eye on the vitally precious fountain of joy. The milk maids had no other goal, no other ideal, no other wish. It was a surrender of the self - completely unquestioned, unwavering.