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104 24. The Lord can pass an elephant through the eye of a needle. He can do whatever He likes.

25. As fishes playing in a pond covered over with reeds and scum cannot be seen from outside, so God plays in the heart of a man invisibly, being screened by My from human view.

28. A man sitting under the shade of the Kalpa-vrzksha (wishing-tree) wished to be a king, and in an instant he was a king. The next moment he wished to have a charm- ing damsel, and the damsel was instantly by his side. The man then thought within himself, if a tiger came and devoured him, and alas 1 in an instant he was in the jaws of a tiger ! God is like that wishing-tree : whosoever in His presence thinks that he is destitute and poor, remains as such, but he who thinks and believes that the Lord fulfils all his wants, receives everything from Him.

27. The landlord may be very rich, but when a poor cultivator brings a humble present to him with a loving heart, he accepts it with the greatest pleasure and satis- faction.

28. While a bell is being rung, the repeated ding-dongs can be distinguished one from the other, but when we stop ringing, then an undistinguishable sound only remains audible. We can easily distinguish one note from the other, as if each distinct note had a certain shape ; but the continued and unbroken sound when the ding-dongs have ceased-is undistinguishable, as if formless. Like the sound of the bell, God is both with and without form.