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and metaphysicians are not had such lines based on experience,
as
today we are hearing from the fire.
Thinking thus
to realise the irrefutability of philosophy and unfathomability of spiritualism and mysticism,
the pitcher asks the fire again:
"Are philosophy and mysticism tow footsteps of one life?
Is the relationship of worshipper and worshipped in them?
If it is, then,
who worships and who is worshipped? Is there the relation of cause and effect in
them?
If it is, then,
who is the effect and who the cause?
Of them,
who speaks and who is quiescent?
From whom does the fragrance of meditation
burst?
Who smells that with his sensitive nose?
Who liberates?
Who satisfies?
That's all, let this age listen to a deep analysis on them both!
At this the desana (speech) of the fire begins: "That... you listen:
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