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and
the moneyed blind in sensuality, in pride!!"
By way of a present even
the amount was not accepted.
The servant gives, then, thanks instead
and starts for the house with the pitchers, happily!
The seth getting down from his
seat
gladly takes a pitcher in his hand from that of the happy-faced
servant,
and washes it
with fresh cold water himself!
Then, taking the pitcher in the left hand marks svastika, the symbol of oneself, with the ring finger of right hand
on all its four sides
with fine sandal wood of Malaya mountain, with the intention
that everyone may obtain one's self. And
puts four round marks
in the four petals of every svastika
with the sandal wood mixed with Kashmiri saffron,
which are telling the world
that all the four gatis (modes of existence) in
Samsara
are devoid of joy.
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