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Why the story is always new· Verses 1–4

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You have asked well, greatly favoured one, best of the Lord's own, in that you make the story of the Lord new again, though you have heard it over and over. This is the nature of the good, who hold to what has substance: at every moment talk of the Unfallen is like something new to them, whose sense and speech and hearing and mind are already on him, as talk of a woman is to lechers. Listen with care, king. Though it is a secret, I will tell it to you. Teachers will tell even a secret to a pupil who loves them. So, having saved the calf-herds from death out of Agha's mouth, the Bhagavan brought them to a sandbank of the river and said this.