VML-4/4/01

[Guest guest]

This is the tremendous thirst that seizes the human heart. Later on,

this very man said to me, " My child, suppose there is a bag of gold

in one room, and a robber in the next room; do you think that the

robber can sleep? He cannot. His mind will be always thinking how to

get into that room and obtain possession of that gold. Do you think

then that a man, firmly persuaded that there is a Reality behind all

these appearances, that there is a God, that there is One who never

dies, One who is infinite bliss, a bliss compared with which these

pleasures of the senses are simply playthings, can rest contented

without struggling to attain It? Can he cease his efforts for a

moment? He will become mad with longing. "