In English
The experienced this beauty of the form and suffered when they were separated from it. In its company, they were thus in a state of great bliss. The demonstrated how ordinary people can take this path and enjoy the bliss related to the experience of the . , the Telugu poet, has described this aspect of the . He described ’s face as being comparable to the moon and his eyes as being comparable to fish. His shoulders were compared to the snakes. His waist was compared to that of a lion and his feet were described as being similar to the lotus. When was thus being described, the snake, the fish, the moon, the lion and the lotus felt somewhat embarrassed. The moon wondered if there could be any comparison between him and the effulgent face of and was ashamed by the comparison. He ran away and hid himself in the sky. The fish told themselves that there could be no comparison between them and the star-like eyes of , and with this feeling they went and hid themselves deep under water. ’s shoulders were soft and broad and the snakes wondered how such shoulders could be compared to them. Blushing, they went into hiding in the ant hills. The lion too thought that there could be no comparison between its waist and the beautiful waist of ; and being thus embarrassed, the lion went away to live, in hiding in a forest. The lotus flowers also felt that there could be no comparison between them and the nice, soft feet of the Lord, and with such a feeling, they went under water. The same thing was described by in a slightly different way. He said, “Two lotus flowers and two elephants were standing and playing. Between these two elephants, there was a big lion sitting. On this lion, was a big tank and in the midst of this tank, there was a big mountain. On this mountain, there was a moon; and in the moon, two fish were playing with each other. Round the moon were dark bees constantly humming around.” This description of by is similar to the one given earlier; and in this, the two feet have been described as two lotus flowers and the two hips have been described as two elephants. On these two elephants stands the lion-like waist, and on the waist there is a stomach, which can be compared to the tank, and on the tank is the mountain in the form of the chest. The moon, which is the face, is above the chest; and the bright shining eyes are the two fish playing with each other in this face. The dark curly hair is compared to the bees humming round the face. The poet looks at the hair as if the darkcomplexioned bees were coming to take the honey that is contained in the smile on the Godly face. The looked at this beautiful form and realised that this cannot be ordinary beauty. They came to the conclusion that it can only be beauty associated with divine bliss. However much you may search, you will not find in their actions or thoughts anything related to the aspect of or attachments. In , who is , such qualities are not to be found at all. who is above the , sometimes comes down to the level of the people with so that he may teach them certain things.