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ABUNDANT JOY OF SENTIMENTS
:13: A NEW WONDER !
Oh Ocean of wonders ! I want to talk to you about one new wonder. I want to talk to you about such wonder beyond your imagination. You may, perhaps, not believe, not accept such is this wonder of the world. The thing which is beyond your imagination is that I like my acute worries, restlessness. I like this not because they are 'my' acute worries; but I like those acute worries, suffocation, miseries because they are for you. In the centrepoint of my acute worries neither myself nor any worldly material is there but only yourself is placed; this is indeed for me very invaluable and the most important thing. My cravings, eagerness, impatience, anxiety manifest such sentiments that you will like, on your own, to come to sit to reside, to reside permanently in the land of my soul and will develop a sort of an intensive attachment with it. What more fortune can I earn than this one ? Since you are involved that is why I call my miseries, my sentiments. I call even troubles, my pilgrimage. I call my persecuting, my entertainment. I call even my suffocation, my sweetness. I call even my confusion quite bewitching. Since you are at the centre I even in restlessness remain in absolute peace.
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