The secret key of life

In my solitary Himalayan hermitage came a robber and asked me,
‘What is the significance of your death?  
People call you immortal.  
You possess vast knowledge like an ocean.  
Will you die by robbing you of the same?’

‘No,’ I replied.

‘Then by taking away your intelligence?’

‘No,’ I replied again.

‘Then by your profound patience and dispassion.........
it is not that without them you will expire at once?’

I answered again in the negative.

‘Then by making you deprive of your penance
and the supernatural grandeur gained thereby?’

‘No,’ I once more replied.

‘Then by taking away the extraordinary virtues of yours?’

‘No, no,’ I emphatically exclaimed;
‘Love is the only secret key of my life;
and because of that I am immortal, undaunted and full of delight.’

- Shri Yogeshwarji