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for the touch of the feet
and to have sacred darsana of the atithi.
No sooner the atithi comes in the compound then the sky resounds with the sound of Jaya (victory).
And, along with the sentimental public
the seth requestes:
"Along with purusartha (exertion),
we are optimists too.
May we get blessings quickly
that we may get rid of the expectation of the sensual objects
and tread your path, that's all!
Oh Svamin! while going
give us such a sutra (thread)
with which we get bound
and recognise our being.
The needle with thread fallen anywhere gets never lost."
At this the Atithi thinks that
this is neither the place nor the
time
fit for the sermon;
still
the internal compassion surges
"
up,
some words come out of the
mouth of the Patra
like pearl from a shell:
"Whatever is being seen outside that... I... am.. not
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