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virtuous woman never dream of or talk of in actual fife-is sung with zest in the presence of parents and husbands when it forms an incident in the divine life of Krishna: This divine life is to these people a blessed dream wherein the mind can reveal without bounds or limits, without committing a sin of soul or body, and it is a picturesque fairy land where the young and the old may read the novel of a life where social superstitions do not limit the vision of love. On the -other hand the light-house of life is the direct word of the god Krishna, and that word breathes the highest morality for soul and body. If sceptics exist among Bhaktas and find an inconsistency between the life and word of God, they have only tobe equal to the Poetry -and philosophy of Krishna, which, when understood, -becomes transformed into a mystic and figurative ex- pression of speech wherein the whole secret of Bhakti ig symbolised! The problem of. the origin of sin and -evil never vexes these souls, for sin and evil are to them only certain strata which grow upon human life by the operation of Kaliyuga, but will melt and evapo- rate like steam as the flame of Bhakti burns brighter -and brighter. ‘The two like water and fire, cannot live together. This is the faith and the hope of weak and -erring humanity which is asked to grow strong by -Arinking the elixir of Bhakti all the waking and sleeping .Kours of life, and not to waste time in pondering over
