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of
the establishment
sachhidananda consciousness-bliss), Mother!"
And
the maun sinks in himself.
"O mauna! Listen a bit,
do not merely talk of faith,
talk a bit with faith!"
Thus the faith of the soil challenged the maun standing before.
of
(being
"I keep mum with the sin
you keep mum with the faith; you are devoid of everything except the sin.
The eyes can grasp the hope, but the perception of faith is possible by the faith only,
neither by the eyes nor by the hope.
That foundation of the world (srsti)
made of punya and apunya (auspicious and
inauspicious),
cannot come down in the skinny eyes,
but,
only in the religious eyes of faith."
Out comes the faith of the soil rolling in deep thought, turning beholds the mauna
120 Silent Soil