Siman 192

(8.) While he was sitting in Uman he was sitting and conversing with us, and he said: "Do you remember when I began to speak about Uman?" And I said to him: "I remember — when he called Rabbi Yudl and asked him about the matter of the Sophia garden [Safiye] in Uman." Rabbainu o.b.m. answered and said: "You also do not know and do not remember — for certainly even before that I had already been speaking of this. And when I spoke with Rabbi Yudl — at that time I was grasping this matter from afar. And I had already entered into the study of this very deeply — for at that time I already had the ability to bring this into the conversation so that it would have some significance and relevance." And he said: "You are also not wise — you think the matter is about Rabbi Nussun-Nussun [the acronym in the house name]. In truth, that is not even one out of millions and tens of millions of the matter he came for." And he said that also in the previous winter when he spoke of wanting to travel through the country — his essential intention then was to remain here for some time. And he further spoke with us of this. From all of this it is heard that he had a very great and awesome intention in this — in his coming to Uman — and that it had been a long time since he began to attain this matter, and that he had a complete and very profound study of it. And also while he was still in Breslov for a long time before he traveled to Uman, he had already spoken of this — and even then he was grasping this study from afar. How much more so now that he had already entered there — and it is impossible to depict even what flickered in our minds about this. For very deeply did his thoughts go in all that he did — and particularly in the matter of his journey to Uman to pass on there: "Deep, deep — who can find it?"