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Glimpses of Sentiments
EVEN IN RAINS THAT GOT DRIED
Oh making possible the rain of compassion, dear ! Looking to continous heavy rain of compassion, it reminds me of monsoon rains. When there is rain of water and salt melts, sugar gets dissolved. A cloth does not pour or melt, but does get wet. A stone does not get melt, does not get dissolved, does not get wet, but it does get anyway a touch of water. In the rains, a waterproof watch, a leaf of lotus does not get dissolved, melted, wet or even a touch of water, but they certainly do not become dry. A thorny herbal plant 'JAWASOʻ goes further than that. It does not get melted, dissolved, wet or even a touch of water but when the rain increases that gets dried up more and more. Prubhu ! you like 'PUSHKARAVART rain fell abundantly heavily. In your loving, very compassionate words; in its heavy abundant continous rain I did not melt, dissolved, wet, or had any touch of water; I remained totally dry. I went on becoming more and more dry. Just like a thorny herbal plant, JAWASO. Despite reading scriptures, my heart did not get wet, soft. With more study, I became very hard, rough, rude and full of false pride. To make me wet, soft, drenched, delicate you showered upon me pious, pure preachings of the scriptures. But I had a cover of an umbrella of the logic.
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