Book Title: Lotus Bloom
Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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________________ Essence of Love You are asking me: what is the distinctive attribute of love? Then note this: the spectacle of varied emotions surcharged with anguish that flushes the eyes of a female deer, as she advances ahead to be immolated at the hands of a hunter, shielding her fresh-born kid behind her--the picture of this mystery-laden emotion be hailed as love! Amateurish He said: 'Urged by an innocent spirit, for sheer pleasure I committed this lapse. The sin implicit, I am sure, cannot besmirch my soul.' 'Urged by an innocent spirit,' I returned, 'You have not gulped down venom for sheer pleasure: Wherefore you are thus left to answer to my charge! Scorching through Scorched One whose life has been turned into dust, would wreck to pieces the lives of many a kindred soul. If you would rescue the many, rescue one such shipwrecked soul! Else, one such scorched being would scorch a large array of kindred human beings!

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