The perfume is the psychic fragrance and those living in the vital not only do not appreciate it but may resist it as it compels us to lose all that is crude and desire driven. It is like the story that Sri Ramakrishna recounted wherein three fisherwomen took shelter on a stormy night in a flower vendors flower store room. They couldn’t sleep at all because the flower fragrance repelled them and they desperately missed the smell of fishes.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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