(Continued...)
Note
however that ‘satAM’ is the word used. Not
everybody but only those noble souls who can be classified as ‘sAdhu’ would be endowed.
The
excellence of speech is compared to the excellence of sweetness of three kinds:
honey, milk and grapes. They can be easily swallowed and digested. On the
spiritual side, the speech faculty would help them receive messages full of
sense and assimilate them in their innermost hearts; and all this by just one
prostration. Instead of saying in prosaic words that ‘they will be endowed with
such faculties’ the poet in the Acharya says: Why would not they be endowed
with such faculties?’
(Continued...)
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