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the patient taking medicine
whose adorable deity is diseaselessness
cannot be sensual,
sensuality being the disease.
And listen!
This is the miracle
not of medicine
but of right diagnosis,
that the result of taking medicine
is the treatment of the diseasediseaselessness is an invaluable wealth."
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356 Silent Soil
And listen further to what the pitcher says
"By the way,
let the talk of ornaments
decoration stand aloof.
in old age the muslin of Dhaka even seem burdensome.
While in the state of detachment, whether one is a child or a youth, is an adult or an aged one, is a dweller of woods or of a house,
welcome-gratitude even
seems a burden.
These lines of saints
are also not out of context - "There can be no love of sky with the earth,
there can be no love of cupid with senility;
this is also a rule
