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Leaving the literal mode
it is moving towards the suggestive mode now:
54: Silent Soil
"When seeds have been sown,
water rains,
seeds sprouts
and in some days
crop begins waving
like a hairy... woman...!
But,
not only the snow,
even a cold wave
in some moments like fire
burns that ripe crop.
Water gives life
snow takes life,
this is the difference
in svabhava (nature) and vibhava
(perversity),
this the saints say
who are the knowers
of the life of the world.
From this follows that
although the outward skin of the
snow
is cool-natured,
but, inside
it is no more cold now!
There has certainly developed
