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OF THE HINDUS.
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51. When a man intending, however, here a Jogi) becomes acquainted with the name of RÁM, his body becomes a mere skeleton; his eyes taste no repose; his limbs retain no flesh.
52. He who sows Rám, never puts forth the buds of wrath: he attaches no value to the valueless; he knows neither pleasure nor pain.
53. The cut mango will not blossom, the slit ear cannot be reunited; whose loss is it, if they apply not the philosopher's stone, that Goraku had?
51. They have not regarded good advice, but have determined for themselves. Kabir says and cries aloud, the world has passed away like a dream.
55. When fire (evil) burns amidst the ocean (the world), no one sees the smoke: lie is conscious of the fire who lighted it, and he who perishes in the fame.
56. The incendiary orders the fire to be kindled, and he who lights it singes bis wings: he expiates his own aet: the thatch escapes, but the house is burned.
57. When fire (truth) burns in the ocean (the mind), as it burns, it clears away the rubbish (worldly care). Pandits from the east and from the west have died in the discussion.
58. When fire blazes in the ocean, the thatch of the house falls to pieces. Mankind weep as they resign their breath, and the inestimable jewel is lost.
59. That a drop falls into the ocean, all can perceive; but that the drop and the ocean are but one, few can comprehend.
60. The poison still remains in the soil, although the latter has been a hundred times sprinkled with ambrosia - man quits not the evil practices to which he has been long addicted.
61. The bellows is applied to the damp wood, which calls aloud with pain: if again it is caught in the blacksmith's forge, it will be burned the second tinie.
62. The soul that pines in absence, vainly flies to medicaments for relief; sigli follows sigh; it faints repeatedly and recovers, to exist, restless and distressed.
63. The separated (spirit) is like the moist fuel which smokes and blazes by fits: then only will it be exempted from pain, when all is utterly consumed.
