Passage 21

In English

The name means, He who attracts, He who cultivated the heart-land, He who is ever in Bliss. Students have to bear this in mind. draws people into His presence, sows, grows and harvests Love in barren broken hearts and confers supreme delight. asks for dedication to (The land) and , to (The cattle). They have raised agriculture, the process of providing food, to the level of a sacred . , the highly patronised court poet, was brought home in a palanquin borne by palace servants. He noticed the son of , the author of the immortal Telugu epic '', ploughing his bit of land. ridiculed him and called out 'Farmer!' The son replied, "This is much nobler than your profession of mendicancy, flattering a human being and feeding on what he drops into your palm."