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ABUNDANT JOY OF SENTIMENTS
Sometime repetition of your name also removes off my form of certainty,it is felt so.
Sometime it is experienced that words coming out in your devotion also rubs off the deep silence of emotional surrender to yourself.
At times, sounds of your prayer and sound of sentiments also appear a kind of bondage.
In devotional strings of emotions a constant waking also seems burdensome to my eyes.
Decorative arrangments of words are certainly not the sentiments. The silence without any thought; the great ocean of silence; more than this there is not any superior worship.
Yet I call you by thousands of names; that is only too much caring for you; it is mere pampering.
Till one can achieve competence and skills to take a dip in the large ocean of sweet, eternal silence to save oneself from getting spoilt by this dirty, worldly puddle with foul smell even to take a dip in the Ganges of repetition of your name does not give less happiness!
When repetition of your name becomes very intensive then I do not find any difference in a meeting and in a separation. Intensity of remembrance, to my mind, is realisation.
In your separation, though I may look a beggar, in reality become very rich.
Yes, a beggar alright but a rich beggar !
Devotion to you are my real riches.
Constant repetition of your name is indeed a big event, and that is my capital.
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