[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 328.3.2 # The Book of Akbar 328.3.2 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 328.3.2 - **Language:** English ### [328.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3.2) Certainly, to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, the present and the absent may be revealed to ordinary compounds of human nature. But with nurslings of Divine light, disciples of the Truth and teachers of Reason, whose pure essences are manifestations of the Divine radiance, and are the rising of Reality’s sun, the future and the past attend upon the present and the absent is like the present fully visible. What matters absence to him who knows the presence of God? Away, away! there can be nothing invisible there! This traveller on devotion’s highway, Abul Fazl to wit, the writer of this preamble of excellencies, one day asked H.M. the circumstances of this miracle. He enunciated in reply: “An invisible Inspirer had placed an intimation of it on our tongue; he best knows the secret thereof.” The effulgence of Truth’s luminary, and its retirement behind a veil are similarly conditioned phenomena. Mighty is the capacity of a sublime nature which when placed amidst so many cellars full of varied senses-robbing wines, a mere sip of which will intoxicate heroes of the Path, viz., 1st. The wine of early youth. 2nd. The wine of temporal dominion. 3rd. The wine of spiritual supremacy. 4th. The wine of outward beauty. 5th. The wine of hidden favour; can retain its high sense and look not to itself, but to God! The wishes of such a soul are made its lovers, and Fortune is constituted the attendant on the threshold of its hopes. - [Previous: 328.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3.1) - [Next: 328.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3.3) - [Up: 328.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.328.3.2) · Pramāṇa