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SPIRITUAL LIGHT. ( 109 )
Indescribable is the demon of Cupid who is of invincible prowess in the three worlds and has forced even the highsouled men illuminated with knowledge to stand with hands folded before women.
Notes-The author vividly pictures the potent and invicible influence of love (cupid) over all creatures in this universe. The chief ideal of this work is the elevation of the Soul and so he traced in the previous verses the over-powering domination and sway of delusion (Moha) with its train-bearers, insatiable desires, alluring attachment for friendly and family relations, bodily charms, etc;. with their eventual pernicious consequences and proposed means. for attaining freedom from them. The mighty power and evil consequences of this licentious passion are clearly visible in the loss of all manly energy, good sense and spiritual strength. Even the mighty potentates, highly advanced sages and gods have fallen down from their elevated positions by the soft dalliance, alluring civilities and ensnaring charms of this demoniac love whose promises are contantly given and broken but still are as constantly believed Its fascination impels those who have not enjoyed it through all mazes and meanderings. It tentalizes its wretched and poor victims with a delusion that distance creates and contiguity destroys. So the Indian poets and authors picture the evil influence of this monstrous love.
"When a man
committeth adultery, Iman
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