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Kesi "Wise monk! There is a severe, a tremendous fire raising in the body. It will reduce the body to ashes. How did you cool it? How did you put it out"?
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Gautama "Great sage! I keep this fire under check by pouring water which is born in a great cloud, which is excellent and pure. Thus watered, the said fire causes me no trouble".
Kesi "Great soul ! What is this fire and what is this water"?
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Gautama "Wise monk! The passions are the fire. Scriptures, discipline and penance are the great clouds. Controlled by the pour of śruta, water this fire causes me no trouble".
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Kesi - "Oh monk! A brave, dreadful and wicked horse is running about in all the directions. Though you are riding on this horse, how is it that it does not take you in the wrong direction"?
Gautama "Great sage! I keep the running horse tied with the bridle of sruta so that it cannot run in the wrong direction; it proceeds in the right direction".
Kesi "Famous man! What is this horse"?
Gautama - "Oh monk!
Mind is the most tremendous and dreadful horse. It runs about in all the directions. Like Kanthaka-horse, it is kept under control by me by spiritual instructions".
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Kesi "Great monk ! In the world, there are many bad ways which degrade a man from the honest track. But how is it that you, while moving on the honest track, are never taken off it"?
Gautama - "Oh leading-most among the monks! I know well those who move on the right track and also I know those who follow the wrong track. So I do not deviate from the right track".
Kesi "Oh wise man! What is the right track and what is the wrong track"?
