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at the first step the affliction and the labour are intolerable, but my burning makes people drink water afterwards. Therefore forgive... forgive, the religion of the aspirant (sadhaka) is to remain absorbed in religion...!"
Hearing these lines the pitcher's strength gets courage, the feet of his zeal become conscious, and he speaks"Obtaining the desired fruit is the limit of one's exertionthis saying I keep in memory. That is why this traveller knows nothing of taking rest in the way. I request to the Lord again to give me unprecedented strength!
Not only for pleasures, there is no desire in this heart even for salvation, no thought of applause in moments of praise. I may have to enter a heat current, but no wave of pain should ever rise in this heart ... in distress.
284 :: Silent Soil
