VISION OF THE LORD 165

Vrishnis1 have eight full treasuries (with them)
and coming forward give to those who ask for
wealth. (3 : 15 : 12-13)

Turn now from that pastoral play of His to the
Lord of Men, seated in royal splendour on His throne
amid the glorious palaces of Dwarka, ruling and protect-
ing even while He still scatters His rich love on every
side. His immortal and fadeless beauty still shines as
ever; to that boyish loveliness is now added a kingly
grandeur which calls for reverence and 9. worship that
pours liquid tears of the heart upon His feet. What
does it signify if, in order to pour on Him the fragrant
nard of our hearts' love, we have to break the vase that
holds it (cf. Mk. 14 : 3), crucify ourselves and shatter
the form we have built around ourselves to make us real
to our own thought ? By our passionate sacrifice and
self-offering we fill the world with a treasury of spiritual
wealth, which can be spread abroad to all in need; we
thus show our love for the Beloved, and what can we
desire more than that ?

44. The Giver of Every Blessing

1. On His curly (and) plentiful hair there
shines a diadem, while smiling jewel-flowers
are hung as earrings, and His fine forehead
and charming brow are decorated (therewith);

wide and long are His restless lovely eyes,
while a gemmed ring scintillates with rays of
light upon His cheeks and (His) lip is red as

1 Vrsnis: the word signifies * heretics' but is used to name
Ihe family of Krishna, whose paternal grandfather was called
Vrsni rVdshm)* • .