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26. Life is wakefulness: the word is like Borax, white: who has seen the yellow drop, saith Kabir, that has turned the water of that colour?
27. There is a mirror in the heart; but the face is not visible in it: then only will the face be reflected there, when doubleness of heart shall disappear.
28. The dwelling of Kabir is on the peak of a mountain, and a narrow path leads to it, an ant cannot put its foot upon it, but the pious man may drive up an ox.
29. The blind man talks of a district, which he has not seen; they are possessed of a salt pit, and offer camphor for sale.
30. The road that SANAKA and his brethren, that Brauma, Visuku, and Mahesa have travelled, is still traversed by mankind: what advice can I bestow?
31. The plough ascends the hill; the horse stops in the village: the bee seeks for honey, where there are no flowers: declare the name of the plant.
32. Sandal! restrain thy fragrance: on thy account, the wood is eut down; the living slay the living, and regard only the dead.
33. The sandal (the soul) is guarded by serpents (passion); what can it effect? every hair is impregnated with venom; where shall Ainbrosia enter?
34. The seizer (death) lets not go his hold; though his tongue and beak be scorehed: where it deems a dainty, the Chakor devours tlie burning coals.
35. The Chakor (hill partridge) in its passion for the moon, digests the burning coal, Kabir declares it does not burn him, such is the fervour of his affection.
36. The village is on the top of a mountain, and so is the abode of the stout man. Choose, Kabir, one for your protector, who can really give you an asylum.
37. The crowd has taken the road travelled by the Pandit: Kabir has ascended the steep defile, where lies the abode of RÁM.
38. What, ho! Kabir, deseend, together with your car and provender; your provender will fail, your feet will grow weary, and your life will be in the hands of another.
39. From the contest of swinging and being swung no one
