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VICHAR MALA.
Like swallows running after mist, Thinking it to be rain,
And from want of discrimination Getting their eyes injured.
As a swallow mistaking mist which it saw from a distance, for rain, runs after it without discrimination, ultimately to have its eyes injured without getting a drop of water.
As one feels pleasure by co-habiting With another's wife in a dream,
And loses virtue, and virility, And becomes unclean too.
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As a person of no very strict morality by enjoying another person's wife, or an imaginary woman in a dream, experiences pleasure, but derives no issue, loses his virtue in the bargain, wastes his virility and becomes unclean.
As a bird falls into a net at the sight of bait,
So are dull persons believing to derive happiness, subjugated by the world.
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As a bird is ensnared by the sight of a bait, and tempted by it, which however it never gets, but on the contrary is made a prisoner, so are dull persons expecting to derive felicity ensnared by it, and they are imprisoned by or made slaves of the world, only to experience grief.
A dog co-habiting a bitch gets entangled for half an hour;
All living beings, in the same way are shameless too.
That is to say, a dog co-habiting a bitch gets entangled, and for half an hour continues in that painful position constantly struggling all the time to ease himself: so are men equally shameless, for they do not consider that a dog has one
