राम
Abhanga 226The Nature of God

The All-Pervading Character of God

English Translation · I.P. 226

WE have hurled a stone upon the sensuous life; we have put death to death. You pervade the world: how can I be separate from you? Now why need I struggle to teach you? How can I expel anything from myself? How can I admit any thing to me ? We may enter on dry discussions, but you remain beyond them; we are only thrusting imaginary torments on ourselves. You have all kinds of workmen dwelling in your house; you distribute wages according to their labour done. Tuka says, We know nothing of loss or gain; let him who is master preserve the house.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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