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49. Man (the pride of intellect) enquires, when may I be allowed to go ; the heart 

 asks when shall I go : the village (truth) that I have been these six months in quest o 

 (investigating in the six Dersanas, or systems), is not half a mile remote. 



50. He has left his dwelling as an Ascetic, and goes to the thickets to practice pe- 

 nance : tired of the Paw-box, he beats the betle vender, and eats split pease. 



51. When a man (iiatending, however, here a JogiJ becomes acquainted with the 

 name of Ram, his body becomes a mere skeleton ; lais eyes taste no repose ; his limbs retain 

 no flesh. 



52. He who sows Ram, never puts forth the buds of wrath: he attaches no value 

 to the valueless ; he knows neither pleasure nor pain. 



53. The cut mango will not blossom, the slit ear cannot be reunited ; whose loss is 

 it, if they apply not the philosopher's stone, that Gorak'h had. 



54. They have not regarded good advice, but have determined for themselves. Kalir 

 says and cries aloud, the world has passed away like a dream. 



53. When fire (evil) burns amidst the ocean, (the world) no one sees the smoke : 

 he is conscious of the fire who Kghted it, and he who perishes in the flame. 



56. The incendiary orders the fire to be kmdled, and he who lights it singes his 

 wino-s: he expiates his own act: the thatch escapes, but the house is burned. 



57. When fire (truth) burns m the ocean (the mind), as it burns, it clears away the 

 rubbish (worldly care). Pandits from the east and from the west have died in the discussion. 



58. When fire blazes in the ocean, the thatch of the house falls to pieces. Mankind 

 weep as they resig-n their breath, and the inestimable jewel is lost. 



49. That a drop falls into the ocean, all can perceive ; but that the drop and the 

 ocean are but one, few can comprehend. 



60. The poIsOn stlU remains in the soil, although the latter has been a hundred times 

 sprinkled with ambrosia — man quits not the evil practices to which he has been long ad- 

 dicted. 



61. The bellows is applied to the damp wood, which calls aloud with pain : if again 

 it is caught in the blacksmith's forge, it will be burned the second time. 



63. The soul that pines in absence, vainly flies to medicaments for relief; sigh fol- 

 lows sigh ; it faints repeatedly and recovers, to exist, restless and distressed. 



63. The separated (spirit) is like the moist fuel which smokes and blazes by fits : 

 then only will it be exempted from pain, when all is utterly consumed. 



