Verse 25

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The dust of my master's feet· Verses 25–29

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In the cow-station he saw the footprints of him whose clean foot-dust is worn on the crowns of all the guardians of the worlds: wonders on the ground, marked out with lotus and barleycorn and goad and the rest. The joy of seeing them raised him past holding himself still; the hair rose on him with love and his eyes swam with tears; he leapt down from the chariot and rolled about among them, saying, ah, these are the dust of my master's feet. This much is the aim of those who carry a body: to let go pretence and fear and grief. And he, on his errand, by seeing and hearing the marks of Hari and the rest — saw Krsna and Rama in Vraja, gone to the milking of the cows, wearing yellow and blue cloth, their eyes autumn lotuses,

two boys, one dark and one white, houses of Sri, long-armed, fine-faced, first among the beautiful, strong as young elephants,